HST FoodTrain

Welcome to HST FoodTrain

HST FoodTrain is a multi-site Marie Curie initial training network (ITN) for early-stage (ESR) and experienced (ER) researchers, funded by the European Commission under the FP7-People Programme and has started on January 1, 2011.

The objective of HST FoodTrain is to train multi-disciplinary experts with multisectoral (from academia to private sector) experience on and insight in the impact of (novel) food processing on the composition and (micro)structure of fruit- and vegetable-based food products, and the relationship between those properties and product functionality such as texture/rheology, flavor and nutrient bio-accessibility.

The consortium of HST FoodTrain consists of two universities (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and University of Reading, UK), a private research institute (DIL, Germany), two large companies (Coca-Cola Services, Belgium and Unilever R&D Vlaardingen, The Netherlands) and an SME (Hiperbaric, Spain).

HST FoodTrain offers research and training opportunities for 7 long-term (36 pm) early-stage researchers, 6 short-term (12 pm) early-stage researchers and 3 short-term (12 pm) experienced researchers. Besides research-based training, recruited researchers will receive local and network-wide training in complementary skills via workshops, winter schools and conferences, and will be exposed both to the academic and the private sector via secondments.

To get an impression on HST FoodTrain, watch our fellows' short movie!