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The deadline for the Tomas Hirschfeld Award nominations has been extended until April 10th. More information: click here.

This 5 years project has been launched 1st January 2014. Providing assurance to consumers and other stakeholders about the safety, authenticity and quality of European food (integrity) is of prime importance in adding value to the European Agri-food economy. The integrity of European foods is under constant threat from fraudulently labelled imitations that try to

This award is administered by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. All nominations has to be sent to the Society for Applied Spectroscopy via email to exdir@s-a-s.org or mail to 5320 Spectrum Drive, Suite C, Frederick, MD 21703. The deadline for nominations is April 15, 2014. Site: https://www.s-a-s.org/for-members/Kowalski-Award/

A collaborative project between the Department of Valorization of Agricultural Products of the Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (CRA-W) and the Brazilian institutions Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) and the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) has been approved for 2014-2015. The project, entitled “Emergent Spectroscopic Techniques for the Quality Control and

Nominations for the 2014 Tomas Hirschfeld Award are open until 17th March 2014. Please, click here to find more information.

A course on “HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES ANALYSIS” will be held at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil) from the 17th to the 21st of March. Prof. Jose Manuel Amigo Rubio (Dept. of Food Science, Quality & Technology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen) will be the instructor. The program consists of: Basic screening of

Copenhagen School of Chemometrics – CSC 2014 is a five-week school designed to be an introduction to different key aspects of advanced data analysis in science. CSC addresses to PhD students/post-docs, associate professors, industrial partners, etc. who want to acquire or refresh basic knowledge on multivariate data analysis from different disciplines (Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Geology,

The PhD course Hyperspectral and Multichannel image analysis is designed to be an introduction to hyperspectral and multichannel images and their analysis in MATLAB environment. During the course, the students will learn how to extract the relevant information from their images as well as the fundamentals of the main multivariate analysis methods (chemometrics) applied. The

The lectures of the NMKL Seminar on “Non-destructive analytical methods: Current insight into NIR (near infrared spectroscopy) and NMR technologies (nuclear magnetic resonance)” are available at the following link: http://www.nmkl.org/Kurs/NMR-IR2013/2013_danmark.htm This seminar has been hosted by the University of Copenhagen the 21st November 2013.

Registration is now open for the 14th course on “Espectroscopía de Infrarrojo Cercano (NIRS). Aplicaciones en el control de calidad y trazabilidad de productos y procesos” . The course Taught in Spanish will be held at Cordoba University (Spain) from 10th to 13th February, under the academic supervision of Prof.Dr. Ana Garrido-Varo (pa1gavaa@uco.es). For further