Within the project “ECAMPUZ European World Talent Camp for Uzbekistan Scientists in Food Science and Technology ERASMUS-EDU-2022-CBHE”, co-funded by the European Union , a two-week educational training CAMP 1 was conducted from September 18 to September 30, 2023 among 26 undergraduate, graduate and PhD students 👩🏻‍🔬🧑‍🔬🧑🏻‍🎓👩‍🎓 from 5 Republican universities of project partners:
Tashkent Institute of Chemical Technology, National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek, Bukhara Engineering and Technology Institute, Andijan State University and Urgench State University.

Topic: Academic food science upgrade and primary food production
Subjects covered: Food chemistry, molecular gastronomy and food analytics
CAMP Period: 18-30th September 2023
Venue of CAMP:
1.”Youth camp”🏕🏕🏕 (“Yoshlar oromgohi”) in Chimgan, Tashkent region – 18-24th September 2023
2. 🔬🔬🔬Tashkent institute of chemical technology (Tashkent, Navoi street, 32) and 🧬🧬🧬Center for Advanced Technologies (Tashkent, Talabalar shaharchasi street, 3A) – 25-30th September 2023
Number of students: 26

On September 25-26, students were trained at the department of “Food Safety and Technology of Production of Functional Products” of the Tashkent Institute of Chemical Technology.

Professors and teachers from the University of Extremadura 🇪🇸 and the University of Copenhagen🇩🇰 introduced Uzbek students to modern knowledge, innovative technologies and methods of analysis in the field of food. Also, the participants, under the guidance of Professor Jorge Ruiz-Carrascal of the University of Extremadura and with the support of LLC Promeat 🥩 employees, tested the sausage production technology on equipment installed in the department’s laboratory.

On September 27-28, students were trained in the Center for Advanced Technologies🧬🧬🧬 by the Professors and teachers from the University of Copenhagen .

UCPH team🇩🇰 introduced advanced knowledge, innovative technologies and methods of analysis in the field of food science to Uzbek students.

The ECAMPUZ project CAMP 1 team organized a visit to a leading brewery plant in Uzbekistan “UzCarlsberg”🍻🍻🍻, where the CAMP 1 participants saw the modern technological line of producing beer, from the raw material to the ready product.

🏆🏆🏆CAMP 1 finished with a mini-conference in which the groups presented their innovative solutions to the problems in a plenary session in the CAT 🧬🧬🧬 on 29th September 2023. Teams demonstrated their presentations and received general feedback from the EU trainers to work on their final report, which is to be presented by December 31st 2023.