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FQH Newsletter June 2009!

The latest FQH Newsletter is now published. We wish you pleasure and inspiration in reading it!!

FQH member Workshop 5-6 May 2009

Switzerland. In building a scientific community, since November 2008 one of the main themes in FQH is concept development: jointly discussing and thereby filling and defining terms that are relevant to organic food quality and health. In the first months of 2009 we focused on terms like ‘organic food quality’, ‘authenticity’, ‘vitality’, ‘true nature’, ‘integrity’, in a concept mapping process leaded by prof. Ton Baars of Kassel University. In the first day of the Workshop several steps forward were made in the understanding of each other. We decided to work further on some new interesting terms which appeared to be not fully clear: ‘inner quality’, ‘sustainable’, ‘holistic’, to be discussed further in the second Member Workshop in November 2009 in Warsaw. A second subject in the last year was the development of a FQH Research Agenda and, subsequently, contributing to the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) of TP Organics of the IFOAM EU group. On the second day of the Workshop the key challenges of the SRA were discussed and research ideas within the area of these challenges were discussed.
A Summary of the Workshop is now published on the members area of this website.
In November 2009 a second FQH member Workshop will be organized, this time in Warsaw.

New members for FQH!!

In the first months of 2009 FQH welcomed two new Research members: the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague (ICT) and Heliopolis Academy (Cairo, Egypt). We expect an inspiring and fruitful cooperation with these new members! FQH also welcomed a new Supporting member: SEKEM (Cairo, Egypt). More information on these new members can be found on the page ‘Members’ of this website.

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