On May 19-21, 2008, Cereals&Europe, in cooperation with Kaunas Technical University, Kaunas, Lithuania and with the support of several companies, will organize its traditional three day workshop for Ph.D. students and young professionals, working in the field of cereal science and technology. The aim of the workshop is to especially attract (young) people, new to the field of cereal science and to cover a broad range of cereal related topics, including breeding, biotechnology, ingredients,  functionality, processing, nutrition, and more.

This low cost workshop also intends to facilitate the dissemination of and to stimulate the discussion about state of the art topics in the field. It is also specifically designed to initiate networking in this group of people who will be the future of the cereal community.

Participants are invited to actively participate by sending abstracts of their presentation (preferably oral –prepared in Power Point- 10’ for a presentation about a project that has just started, 5’ for a poster presentation, 20’ for all other presentations) before March 1. The program will depend on the papers submitted. The themes that evolve from the submissions will be introduced by senior cereal scientists. Submission Instructions and an Abstract Template will be available on www.cerealsandeurope.net.

The registration fee and accommodation costs will be kept to a minimum, with € 100-125 for the registration and € 50-65 maximum per night for accommodation. Special conditions may apply – please inquire. Travel information, registration forms, and other relevant information will be provided on www.cerealsandeurope.net.