First Block Seminar [21.11.18]
The 1st block seminar of the Sino-German International Research Training Group “Adaptation of maize-based food-feed-energy systems to limited phosphate resources” (DFG GRK 2366) was held Nov. 15-17, 2018 in Beijing.
(Photo: Mr. Zhong Guo / CAU)
The 1st block seminar was part of the official launching events of this Sino-German IRTG between University of Hohenheim and China Agricultural University (CAU) during the week Nov. 12-17, 2018 in Beijing. It included five lectures by invited speakers as part of the Educational Programme for the Chinese and German doctoral researchers. These were followed by 12 joint presentations by the German and Chinese doctoral researchers and two post-doctoral researchers on the IRTG’s different Research Subjects, including an excursion to Hebei Province.
(Photo: Torsten Müller / University of Hohenheim)
A meeting of all Chinese and German principle investigators and senior scientists and several advisory board members of the IRTG was held in the morning of Nov. 15, 2018. In the afternoon, the joint signing of the Doctoral Agreements between the doctoral candidates (German side), and their German advisors and Chinese co-advisors took place for each Research Subject, respectively.
Excursion
A 1½-day excursion to CAU’s experimental station in Quzhou County, Hebei Province (approx. 400 km S of Beijing) with a history of 45 years, took place on Nov. 16-17, 2018. It included a visit of the future site of the central field experiment of the project in China, as well as of other long-term P fertilization experiments carried out by the CAU. This was followed by visits to several examples of combined extension and research model approaches in pilot villages (“Science and Technology Backyard Models”) and a local horticultural enterprise.
(Photo: Torsten Müller / University of Hohenheim)
(Photo: Torsten Müller / University of Hohenheim)
