THE 13th CASEE CONFERENCE AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOLDOVA
Invitation
THE 13th CASEE CONFERENCE AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOLDOVA
We are pleased to invite you to the 13th CASEE Conference, „Smart Life Sciences and Technology for Sustainable Development „, organized by the Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau, between 28th and 30th of June, 2023.
About the conference
The 13th CASEE Conference, ” Smart Life Sciences and Technology for Sustainable Development „, is organized on the 28th and 30th of June, 2023, by the Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau.
The conference focuses on the fields of life Sciences, Modern Engineering and Technology. CASEE Conference is where researchers, including doctoral students, may endorse exchanging ideas and knowledge in the relevant fields and stimulate an interdisciplinary approach.
Conference scientific sessions
- Sustainable agriculture (including landscape planning and forestry)
- Current issues of the global agricultural economy
- Global trends and challenges in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine
- Climate-smart agriculture
- Digital agriculture, engineering and environment
- Food Engineering and Technology
- Food and nutritional security
- Applications in Gastronomy and Tourism Enterprises or Traditional Cuisines in Tourism Businesses
- Food Chemistry, Oenology and Biotechnologies in the Food Industry
- New healthy and sustainable food products and processes
- Climate change and food safety: effects of climate change on food safety across food systems
- Environmental sustainability and circularity for industrial bio-based systems
Sustainable agriculture (including landscape planning and forestry)
Agriculture is vital to society, the environment and the economy of each country. The Common Agricultural Policy encourages sustainable economic practices to protect the long-term profitability of agriculture and forestry. Agriculture not only provides an income to farmers and their families across all the countries, but also supports society as a whole through essential services.
Sustainable agriculture is agriculture in sustainable ways to meet society’s present food and textile requirements without compromising the ability for current or future generations to meet their needs. There are various approaches to improve the sustainability of agriculture. Nowadays agriculture needs strong and deep research and innovation to meet the challenges it faces in the context of climate change, environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity.
Current issues of the global agricultural economy
Agricultural economics is a branch of economics that deals with the use of economic theory in enhancing the production and distribution of food and fibre. Agricultural economics covers a wide range of issues like applied areas, having considerable overlap with conventional economics. It covers a wide range of matters concerning development, trade, macroeconomic policy implications, agribusiness, production and consumption all the way to environmental and resource issues.
Global trends and challenges in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine
Animal husbandry refers to domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labour and animal products. Veterinary medicine is oriented to produce new drugs or vaccines and to analyse the tissue culture to improve agricultural productivity, quality, diversity and species protection.
Climate-smart agriculture
Climate smart agriculture is an approach that involves increasing agricultural productivity by transforming and managing landscapes and agricultural systems to ensure food security keeping climate change in mind. The key objectives of CSA are sustainably improving agricultural productivity, building flexibility to climate change, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, wherever possible.
Digital agriculture, engineering and environment
Digital agriculture and environment refer to the use of innovative agricultural technologies to collect, save, examine, and share electronic information along the agricultural value chain. It is also referred to as smart farming or e-agriculture.
New technologies can provide the agricultural industry with ideas and a basis to make more informed decisions and improve crop productivity. Digital technologies provide farmers with the information and ability to meet these challenges and grab prospects from growth.
Food Engineering and Technology
Food and technological engineering are those branches of science that manage the strategies associated with the creation, preparation, protection, quality management and transportation of food products. The field includes scientific research on basic and applied technologies, including processing, preservation methods, food processing, food storage as well as secondary products to enhance the functionality, quality and safety of products.
Food and nutritional security
Food security is one of the basic determinants of good nutrition, focusing primarily on food availability, economic and physical access to food, and stability of food supply. Food and nutritional security research work on complex social issues related to lifestyle / living conditions, as well as the development of healthy food products with a beneficial impact on consumers health.
Applications in Gastronomy and Tourism Enterprises or Traditional Cuisines in Tourism Businesses
An area of interest, which aims to capitalize on local and regional intangible cultural heritage, contributing to the promotion of destination branding, preserving local traditions and diversities, but valuing and rewarding authenticity. The domain will also include geographic spaces with gourmet tourist destinations.
The field will include insightful research on a variety of crucial topics in the field: customer experience, economic sustainability, ICT and tourism, social media, marketing, tourism law and more.
Food Chemistry, Oenology and Biotechnologies in the Food Industry
The field of Food Chemistry, Oenology and Biotechnologies in the Food Industry includes risk assessment, food components and their correlation with human metabolism, food residues and toxicology.
It also features the latest business, policy and wine marketing content, as well as industry trends.
The field of Food Biotechnology deals with the design, production, modification and evaluation of biological systems and living organisms in food.
Research areas regarding the application of biotechnology in the food industry involve: enzymes, including cheese processing; fermentation, including brewing and winemaking; agricultural raw materials (e.g. crops, meat, poultry, fish) with improved functionality; and plant cell bioreactors for the production of food ingredients.
New healthy and sustainable food products and processes
Research and development of new processing technologies can add value to specialty crops by developing new foods containing up to 100% specialty crop ingredients with increased health, convenience and overall consumer appeal.
The field focuses on healthy and sustainable food product innovations to support food service in health and care settings for consumers of all ages.
Climate change and food safety: effects of climate change on food safety across food systems
Climate change can affect the safety of the food supply chain over time through significant variations in weather variables and their frequency. Environmental conditions can influence the emergence, persistence, virulence and, in some cases, toxicity of certain groups of disease-causing microorganisms. Food safety can also be compromised by various chemical hazards such as pesticides, mycotoxins and heavy metals. Discussing the causes and impacts of climate change and variability on existing and emerging risks to food safety and also mitigation and adaptation strategies to address global warming and climate change are important in academia.
Environmental sustainability and circularity for industrial bio-based systems
Assessing the environmental sustainability and circularity of bio-based industrial systems is essential to guarantee and monitor that they are developed in a way that can contribute to the fair green transition of the EU economy from a linear fossil-based system, mainly by promoting energy from natural sources (biological waste can be transformed into energy, biofuels for sectors where electrification will remain a challenge), fight for green industry (the circular use of biomass promotes resource efficiency and stimulates the production of products with high added value, elimination pollution (the circular bioeconomy maximizes the use of waste streams from agriculture, food processing and forest industries, thus reducing the amount of waste stored).
All staff members from CASEE universities and colleagues from other research institutions in CASEE countries are invited to submit an abstract by 13th of February 2023. Participation in the conference and the presentation of the papers/posters will provide feedback for the authors to improve the papers in order to be submitted into various journals (some of them are listed below). Therefore, the conference aims not only to discuss its topic and subtopics but also to assist the participants in improving their papers for submission in many journals. The submission will depend on the guidelines of the journals, like is the case of „Die Bodenkultur: Journal of Land Management, Food and Environment”. This journal has kindly offered the partnership to CASEE:
Publishing Partnership of „Die Bodenkultur: Journal of Land Management, Food and Environment” and „CASEE – The ICA Regional Network for Central and South Eastern Europe” for publishing Invited Papers based on presentations given at the 13th CASEE Conference in 2023 at the Technical University of Moldova from 28nd to 30th June 2023.
„Die Bodenkultur: Journal of Land Management, Food and Environment” is an interdisciplinary forum dedicated to all aspects of research in rural areas. The aim of the journal is to provide an international outlet for new results in all disciplines of land management, food, environment and related subjects.
The CASEE Board will invite authors of selected presentations from the CASEE Conference to submit a manuscript to the journal „Die Bodenkultur”. Papers will be marked as „Invited papers” with reference to the CASEE Network and the 13th CASEE Conference in Chisinau on their title page.
Manuscripts must be full research papers and have to be prepared according to the standards of the journal (Instructions for authors can be found at the journal homepage: https://sciendo-parsed-data-feed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/BOKU/Instructions_for_Authors.pdf). Manuscripts shall be submitted until 15th September 2023.
Papers can be written in English or in German. Title, abstract, keywords and tables and graphs captions have to be presented in both languages.
Assistance during the whole submission and revision process will be provided by the journals Managing Editor Reinhard Neugschwandtner (reinhard.neugschwandtner@boku.ac.at).
There are also other journals where the participants in the 13th CASEE Conference are encouraged to submit their papers after their presentation at CASEE conference. The 13th of February 2023 review of the submitted papers is not in the hands of the conference organizers or CASEE board but depends on the rules of the journals, as indicated in the case of Die Bodenkultur. However, participation in the conference increases the chances for a positive review process because the ideas are discussed before the submission.
Special information for PhD students
PhD students from CASEE universities are specially invited to submit an abstract for a poster or oral presentation in one of the subthemes of the conference. The conference is a great opportunity to discuss their research findings in an international community because it provides international feedback. The deadline for the submission of the abstracts is 31th of January 2023. Up to 20 PhD students will be exempt from the conference fee based on the evaluation of submitted abstracts; the students will be notified about the fee waiver by 31st March 2023.
CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE SUBMISSION
Only abstracts submitted online can be accepted!
The abstracts of all oral presentations and posters will be published in a CASEE Conference 2023 Book of Abstracts (PDF).
Type of participation and general information
The official language of the conference is English.
Oral presentation
Oral presenters will be given 15 minutes to present their work and additional 5 minutes for questions and answers.
Poster presentation
The duration of each poster session is 1 hour. The poster presentation takes 5 minutes, including questions from the audience. Please hang your poster at least 30 minutes before the start of your session. Each poster has a number in the conference programme and must be placed on the board matching its number.
Online presentation
Online presentations are suitable for those unable to attend the conference in person. The online form of presentation is oral only. Online participants receive all conference materials (programme, certificate, etc.) by email.
Online Oral Presentation
A live stream of your presentation via the free TEAMS application will be used. Please, be ready to share your screen with the rest of the participants. You may use Power Point, Prezi or other tools for sharing your presentation as normal. Questions to the presentation can be proposed via the in-meeting chat. The session chair would then choose which of them would be asked after the presentation is over.
In case there are any time zone differences, poor internet connectivity, or there is another reason you are unable to present your report at the specified time, you can send us a pre-recorded video with sound or a Power Point slideshow with narration.
Participation fee and payment
CASEE members | 200 € |
Non CASEE members | 240 € |
Students | 50 € |
Post conference tour (optional) | 70 € |
Accompanying person | 50 € |
The participation fee includes:
- Opportunity to present a paper either as a talk or as a poster
- Certificate for participation
- Admission to all sessions of the conference
- A printed copy of the conference programme
- Coffee breaks
- Conference Dinner
Payment
We accept bank transfers. All bank charges and commissions are paid by the participants.
Invoices will be sent via email as a PDF attachment.
Bank details for transfers in Euro (EUR) | |
Recipient | Technical University of Moldova |
Recipient address | Chisinau, bd. Stefan cel Mare 168 |
Bank name | BC MAIB SA |
Bank address | Chisinau, bd. Stefan cel Mare 182 |
IBAN | MD48AG000000022515050152 |
BIC / SWIFT | AGRNMD2X |
Please mention your registration number as a reason for the bank transfer.
Abstract submission: 13th of February 2023
Deadline for Abstract submission: the beginning of March
Review of abstracts: March
Registration form
Please fill out this form using the Latin Alphabet only.
ORGANAZING COMMITTEE
- Rector, University prof. Viorel BOSTAN
- Vice Rector, Daniela POJAR
- Director of doctoral School, Rodica SIMINIUC
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE
Wednesday 28nd of June, 2023
14:00-15:00 Registration of the participants
15:00-17:00 Board meeting of CASEE Members (upon invitation only)
17:30-20:00 Welcome dinner (upon invitation only)
Thursday 29rd of June 2023
09:oo-10:00 Registration of the participants
10:00-12:00 Plenary session
10:00-10:20 Conference opening
Prof. Viorel BOSTAN, TUM, Rector
Prof. Michal Lošťák, CASEE President, CZU
10:20-10:50 Keynote 1: Global trends and challenges in Agricultural Science
10:50-11:20 Keynote 2:
11:20-11:50 Keynote 3:
11:50-12.00 Plenary session wrap-up
12:00-12:30 Visit of TUM Campus
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:10 Parallel oral sessions A
15:10-15:40 Coffee break
15:40-17:00 Parallel oral sessions B
18:00-20:00 Conference dinner
Friday 30th of June 2023
9:00-10:15 Parallel poster sessions
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:30 CASEE General Assembly
12:30 Closing of the conference
12:30-13:00 Quick lunch
13:00 Departure to Milestii Mici Wine-Cellars
(optional post conference tour)
Departures of the participants
