Research School for Animal Production and Health (RAPH) - A description of a Danish Research Education Initiative

Abstract

The Research School for Animal Production and Health (RAPH) was set up in 1998 as a sibling to the Research Centre for the Management of Animal Production and Health (CEPROS). CEPROS will be described later in the ICPD programme by its director, Dr. H. Houe. Both of these research organisations were created because it was felt, within Danish agriculture, that there was an urgent need to solve a number of multifactorial problems. The problems were connected with the increasing frequency of certain of production diseases, the spread of infectious zoonoses, such as salmonellosis, and the increasingly common occurrence of microbes with resistance to antibiotics. RAPH's primary contribution to the resolution of these issues was to educate researchers capable of solving the complex multidisciplinary problems associated with impaired animal health and welfare. In explaining how RAPH tries to meet this aim, I shall focus on issues relating to research education. The scientific detail of multidisciplinary research projects will be covered by Dr Houe. I shall look particularly at our early experiences – both good as bad – and discuss the role of research schools in the education of agricultural researchers.

Published in

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
2003, Volume: 44, number: Supplement 1, pages: 43-49 Publisher: DANSKE DYRLAEGEFORENING

UKÄ Subject classification

Learning


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-44-S1-S43

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/87235