The DAFM Summer school for second-genaration of DAFM students was held in Zagreb, at our consortium partner university: University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture.
The topic of our 5-day Summer School was "Towards resilient agriculture" an it took place from July 1 to 5, 2024. The summer school was attended by 23 second-generation students of the DAFM study program.
A series of lectures during the summer school were held by professors from the UNIZG as well as professors from partner institutions, with a total of 17 lectures given. The summer school also included lectures at experimental fields, as well as a visit to Plitvice Lakes National Park.

​The call for EU-applicants is closed now. Thank you for your applications!
For Intake 3 we welcome altogether 37 DAFM students.
EU-scholarship holder: 5
Non-EU scholarship holder: 18
Non-EU tuition fee waived: 14
 
We are looking forward to a successful academic year of 2024-2025!
 
Next call for Intake 4 will be open: October/November 2024

The call for third intake for EU citizens is extended until 30th June 2024, 23.59 GMT+1

BSc students from the EU graduating in June/July, 2024 are welcome to apply!

This extension applies only for EU citizens and NOT for the accessing countries citizens.

*Who is an EU citizen? Please check here:
  https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/programme-guide/part-a/eligible-countries

Good luck to all EU applicants!

Danube AgriFood Master – DAFM students participated in online 90 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE OF YOUNG SCIENTIST AND STUDENTS - "Youth scientific achievements to the 21st century nutrition problem solution". This conference was organized 11 – 12 April 2024 by National University of Food Technologies in Kiev, Ukraine (https://conference.nuft.edu.ua/young/index.html). Three students presented results of their study – 1. Bint e Hawa: A comparative analysis of nutritional composition and bioactive properties between edible larval and adult mealworms. 2. Jawa Hassan: Determination of nutritional properties and biological activity of some traditional Syrian sweets. 3. Emmanuel Duah Osei: Phytochemical composition of Coffea canephora Pierre ex a. Froehner from Ghana. Participation in the conference was excellent experiences for students and opportunity to develop themselves. After their presentation they addresed to many questions from the other participants. In general, students were very good evaluated by the organising committee.

On April 18th, 2024. five DAFM study program students participated in XXII. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE OF BACHELOR’S AND MASTER’S DEGREE STUDENTS (https://svk.fbp.uniag.sk/program-programme), which was organised by Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra. In section Control and Safety of Food Chain Emmanuel Duah Osei presented the results with topic Bio-chemical and organoleptic profile of roasted and unroasted Coffea canephora Pierre ex A. Froehner and Shahid Ali Tahir with topic Variability of the content of risk metals, total content of polyphenols and antioxidant activity in legumes grown in Piešťany locality. In section Innovations and Trends in the Food Technology presented results Anthony Amotoe-Bondzie with topic Characterization of soy curd residue and full-fat soy flour as protein-based food ingredients, Jawa Hassan with topic Nutritional and antioxidant profile of some traditional Syrian confectionery and Bint e Hawa with topic Edible insects as a perspective alternative food source for future. Participation was also very successful experience, since Anthony Amotoe-Bondzie won the second place for the best presentation and Emmanuel Duah Osei won the award for best scientific work with practical application. We congratulate to students and wish them successful participation in further conferences as well as in their scientific life.

The call for third intake for EU students is extended until 30th April 2024, 23.59 GMT+1

BSc students graduating in June/July, 2024 are welcome to apply from the EU!

*Who is an EU citizen? Please check here:
  https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/programme-guide/part-a/eligible-countries
 Besides the member countries of the EU, Lichtenstein, Norway, Iceland, as well as Turkey, Serbia, and North       
​ Macedonia.

Good luck to all EU applicants!

On March 11, 2024 the DAFM Selection Committee has finalized the ranking list for the third intake and harmonized the mobility tracks.
On March 18, 2024 all selected candidates have received an offer: 
 17 candidates were offered a scholarship
 17 candidates were offered a tuition fee seat

​Congratulations to all selected applicants!
 
We would like to thank all applicants for choosing DAFM program and we would like to encourage them to apply next year.
Next call for our fourth intake will be open in November, 2024.

​The interviews will take place between 23rd and 27th February, the alternate interviews if any from 28/29th February.
Candidates with the best related study fields, best CGPA's, best international language certificates (mostly C1 level) with high motivation, publications, excellent references and well-written and interesting Europass CV's have been selected.
We believe that the competition got even higher than we experienced in the first and the second intake. Especially for the top-sending countries, from with only very few applicants have been selected, since we can only have max 3 candidates per nationality, per intake.
All non-selected applicants will be informed in the following days.
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Thank you very much to all of the excellent applications we have received!