3rd CEFSER TRAINING COURSE

Organized within FP7 project CEFSER, GA 229629, by the Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia, 16-17 September 2010

Prof. Dr. Biljana Škrbić: significant experience in coordination and leadership of research projects at both national and international level with strong background in food quality and safety, environmental impacts on food chain, environmental pollution and protection, chemometrics, etc.; founder and head of the Laboratory for Chemical Contaminants in the Environment and Food at FT; coordinator of FP7 project 'CEFSER" GA no. 229629, scored with 15/15; expert evaluator of the projects submitted to the calls of FP7-KBBE Theme 2 programme, FP7-IRSES People programme, the Serbian Ministry for Science, SEE-ERA.NET FP6 project, and Slovak Research and Development Agency; peer-reviewer in dozen prestigious international scientific journals (e.g. J. Chromatogr., Environ. Res., Chem. Intell. Lab. Syst., J. Chem. Inf. Comp. Sci., Environment Int., J. Hazard. Mat., Soil Sed. Contam., etc.); She was Guest Editor of Central European Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Editor in Chief of national journal Acta Periodica Technologica; she is Member of Editorial board of Central European Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine she is the president of the Scientific Council of Association of Environmental Health and Protection of Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa (DKMT) Euroregion, Szeged, Hungary, 2009-2010, and member Balkan Environmental Association (B.EN.A) and Serbian Chemical Society; References: 9 books, 348 scientific papers and presentations - 70 from the SCI list; invited author of the chapter “Refinery fires: Environmental Issues” in Encyclopedia of Petroleum Sciences and Engineering, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2009.

Prof. Dr. Jana Hajšlová: full professor and a head of Accredited Laboratory for analysis of food and environmental contaminants, toxicants and biologically active compounds at the Department of Food Chemistry and Analysis at ICT; her current teaching/supervision responsibilities are within courses on basic principles of food analysis, chemical food safety and organic trace analysis. Her research interests focus on the fate of contaminants and toxicants in food chains and issues related to the implementation of novel strategies for their analysis. Her international memberships are prestigious: program committee “Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology” EU 7 th Framework program, Advisory Group ”Food Quality and Safety”, EU 6 th Framework program, EU Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks, SCENIHR (Health & Consumer Protection DG), member of International Editorial Board-Journal of Food Additives and Contaminants, WHO National contact point for Global Environmental Monitoring Programme (GEMS/Food EURO). Prof. J. Hajšlová has participated in many international research projects, e.g. CONffIDENCE, TRUEFOOD, BIOCOP, TRACE, HEATOX, FIRE, COST actions 629, 924, 926, 927, 636, etc. She has published widely on organic contaminants and food.

Dr. Michal Godula: Food Safety Specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific since 2008 focusing on the main aspects of food safety field, providing application and methodology support and consultancy in residue analysis and managing collaboration projects with many scientific institutions in Europe, e.g. Food and Environmental Research Agency, York (UK), Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, (Italy) or Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague (Czech Republic). In 2003 PhD in food chemistry and analysis at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague; the main focus of his thesis was the multi-analyte analysis of pesticide-residues in food samples. The major attention was drawn to the optimization of the GC/MS conditions with respect to the minimizin g of matrix induced response enhancement phenomenon. He has absolved during his carrier a number of research interships and trainings, namely in Central Science Laboratory, York (UK) where he focused on the work in pesticide residue field and in Spectronex, Basel (Switzerland) focusing on the application of advanced mass spectrometry in residue analysis. All his career he has been focusing on the applications and practical use of mass spectrometry in residue analysis, he has published scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to a number of conferences with posters and oral presentations.

The training will be divided into theoretical and practical part. Before the start of training course, trainees will receive handouts (papers, lectures, etc.) to provide them preliminary information about the scope of the training. Each course section is accompanied by exercises in small group (5-6 people) during which the concepts are put into practice.

One of the main challenges in front of CEFSER is to effectively distribute gained information and knowledge on the recent findings and advances in the analysis of contaminants in food and the environment to a variety of targeted audiences in the whole Balkan area and EU as well. In order to motivate scientists from Western Balkan Countries to participate in the training course, few grants will be available for the participants outside CEFSER. Selected number of candidates from all WBCs with the most successful applications (CVs and brief description of the research project or area of work and motivation for course participation written on maximum 1 page (please find the attached application form in *.doc) will be granted.

The grant will cover the cheapest available ticket for travelling to the course and the average accommodation rates. The maximum grant is 300 euro. Only upon the submission of the original tickets and receipts to the course organizer (Prof. B. Škrbić, Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad), the reimbursement of costs will be made up to the maximum grant amount.

The course will be aimed at researchers, laboratory managers and all other practitioners in analytical laboratories from Western Balkan Countries (WBCs) who are involved in the analysis of chemical contaminants and pharmaceuticals in food and the environment with at least basic knowledge in analytical chromatographic techniques and ability to discuss and interact in English. Besides the granted ones, all other interested will be allowed to attend the course on their own expenses after completing the application form and sending it to the organizer.

Accommodation for the granted applicants will be made by the Faculty of Technology in a hotel close by. Transfer from the station/airport to the hotel upon arrival and vice versa is at own convenience of the course participants, as well as the transfer from the hotel to the course venue. The detailed information on how to get to the course venue will be provided in advance.