BIOPRO World Talent Campus: A week of real world challenge for biotechnology post-graduate students

Publication date: Available online 28 August 2018Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Isuru A. Udugama, Hannah Feldman, Simoneta Caño las Heras, Arathi Kizhedath, Jesper Bryde-Jacobsen, Frans van den Berg, Seyed Soheil Mansouri, Krist V. GernaeyAbstractFocus on sustainable processes and renewable raw materials, combined with rapid advancements in technology developments across scales, makes bio-based production processes a subject of great interest to both industry and academia. Despite this increasing prominence of bio-based production processes, there is a lack of a single course that can provide a thorough overview of the state-of-the-art industrial scale bio-based production, to early stage practitioners and researchers such as post-graduate students. BIOPRO World Talent Campus (WTC), developed and initiated in the year 2013 by the BIOPRO Strategic research consortium, was specifically designed and developed to address this shortcoming, and has thus far trained more than 120 post-graduate students from related yet diverse academic backgrounds from all across the globe. This manuscript describes the general and technical organisation of BIOPRO WTC, and the unique academic and industrial collaboration that exists in Denmark, which makes WTC a reality. A special focus is also placed on discussing a 48 hours industrial challenge that is set by leading Danish bio-based production companies and its impact on young post-graduate students, who get hands on exp...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - Category: Chemistry Source Type: research