For Quality of Life

Relevant trends Increasing population and prosperity

reducing poverty demand of food (quantity, quality, safety) public health influence of consumers deforestation and land degradation scarcity of fresh water and energy urbanisation

Effects of climate change Reduction of global food reserves

Emerging societal issues in the Agri-food sector

Food Quality Customisation

1 Ministry VWS, 2003; 2 Van Putten et al., in press

Consumer Health NL societal costs ~ 5

B€/y1

Cardiovascular, diabetes, cancer, asthma, allergies, motoric system, obesity

Food Safety Tracking and tracing; RFIDs Sensors and analysis

methods Increased incidence of

food allergies and intolerance2

Sustainability Waste, efficiency,

‘humane production’

Globalisation of research and education Stronger emphasis on public-private co-operation Stronger emphasis on (inter)national consortia Growing importance of co-innovation Increasing importance of life long learning

Relevant trends in our organisations

Sustainable Agriculture

Nutrition and Health

Sustainable Fishery

Biomass

ChainsFood

& Food Production

Marine Resource Management

Landscape & Land Use

Nature & Biodiversity

Water Management

Competing ClaimsLiving

EnvironmentFood

& Food Production

Living Environment

Food

& Food Production

Behaviour and Perception

Food Security

Institutions

Consumer

Citizen

Health

Lifestyle

Livelihood

Developments within the domain of Healty Food and Environment

demand top level science, education and international co-operation and adequate new institutions and

organizations

Trends in universities

Medieval or FirstGeneration University

Research or SecondGeneration University

Third GenerationUniversity

First TransitionPeriod

Second TransitionPeriod

Research, education and knowledge transfer; professional and academic

Wageningen UR as example Research

From applied to academic Top 5 in our domains Top 100 worldwide in university

ranking

Research From applied to academic Top 5 in our domains

Education Prof. bach. & masters, BSc, MSc &

PhD Life long learning 10.000 students

Wageningen UR as example

Research From applied to academic Top 5 in our domains

Education Prof. bach. & masters, BSc, MSc & PhD Life long learning 10.000 students

> 6000 faculty and staff Large Dutch research institute Exploitation and valorization of

research International orientation

Wageningen UR as example

DLO

Employees

Van Hall Larenstein

University for prof. education

Location Wageningen

Wageningen, Lelystad, IJmuiden,

Den Haag + 40 other locations

Wageningen, Velp,Leeuwarden

Students

(vanaf 2004)

Three partners in research and education

2239 fte 416 fte

43424525>1200 PhD

WageningenUniversity

Source: year report 2006

2845 fte

Turn over € 222 mll € 49 mll€ 322 mll

Co-operation and synergy

Strong international orientation

Students and faculty from > 100 countries

The Wageningen approach: biological

To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life

Gene/ Molecule

Cell

Organism

Products

Ecosystem

Planet

technologies

The Wageningen approach: biological and

social

Individual

Society

Community

Household

Gene/ MoleculeGene/ Molecule

Cell

Organism

Products

Ecosystem

Planet

Policy & limiting conditions

institutions

technologies

peopleprofitplanet

Co-innovation

Research

Education

Entrepreneurs

CO- INNOVATION Stakeholders

New themes in research and education

Food, Health Behaviour Climate resistant coastal zones Biobased economy

Bio-nanoatechnology Systems Biology Scaling and Governance

New themes in research and education

Food, Health Behaviour Climate resistant coastal zones Biobased economy

Some Examples of Wageningen Science and

Research

Sustainable products: - materials - chemistry - energy

Food& feed

Photosynthesis

Biomass

CO2

H2OMinerals

Waste and manure

Waste and manure

Side products and waste valorization

Compost, fermentation (energy)

New technology

Food choice and LifestyleSerious Obese

Obese in the Netherlands

Obese Serious Obese

Obese in the Netherlands

Obese Serious Obese

Nutrition and health: Quality of Life

100 %

Time

Healt

h/

“Qualit

y o

f lif

e”

Climate issues

Climate change scenario studies

Voorbeeld/Example

Education System: Vision on Dutch system

Doctorate

Bachelor

Master

Post-experiencePro

fess

ion

al

Aca

dem

ic

Knowledge, skills and attitude in context of envisioned professional field

Two learning tracks

Competences: T-shaped skills

Generalist

Sp

eci

alis

t

Knowledge

(methodology and subject matter)

Attitude (academic)

Skills (scientific research)

Network-policy – domain networks Collaboration, focus

and mass world-wide

US

Asia

Next generation university

Science for Impact