Master in Food Technology, Safety and Quality Management

The Académie de recherche et d’enseignement supérieur (ARES) is the federation of Wallonia-Brussels federation higher education institutions. ARES is a public body in charge of supporting Universities and Superior Schools in their role in education, research and services to the community. ARES groups 6 universities, 16 superior schools (hautes écoles), 16 art superior schools, and 86 superior social promotion schools (établissements d’enseignement supérieur de promotion sociale); ARES promotes their dialogue and collaboration at national and international levels. ARES ensures the overall coordination of Wallonia Brussels higher education institutions.

In the frame of development and research projects (PRD) and education in the south projects (PFS), the academic partners have the possibility, after the completion of a project, to introduce a continuation project (projet de poursuite). The criteria for a continuation project are: (i) same location, (ii) same discipline/theme, (iii) same Belgium partner team, (iv) same South partner team. Conducting an external evaluation of the initial project, and including the results of this evaluation in the continuation project’s application, is a condition for ARES to grant a continuation project. This evaluation of the PFS project ‘Master in food technology, safety and quality management’ has been organized to comply with such requirement.

The expected results of this project were: 1) An advanced Master in "Food Technology, Safety and Quality Management” (FTSQM) is set up and taught at the HUA with partner universities (ULiège, UCLouvain, ITC, RUA and HUST) during 3 years, and 2) A junior teacher-researcher from the HUA improves her/his scientific skills related to food chain quality management issues. The (higher level) specific objective of the project is for Southeast Asian universities to strengthen their training –to students and professionals - and research capacities in the field of the food quality management all along the food chains, through a partnership for technical support with Belgium Universities.