Invitation

THE  13^th   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 28^th and 30^th of June, 2023.

About the conference 

The 13^th CASEE Conference, ” Smart Life Sciences and Technology for Sustainable Development „, is organized on the 28^th and 30^th 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 30^th of April 2023. 

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 30^th of April 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 30^th April 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

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.

Please mention your registration number as a reason for the bank transfer.

For issuing the invoices the participants would provide billing details of the affiliated organization:

• Name
• Address 
• Fiscal code

List of suggested hotels

Abstract  submission: 30^th of April 2023

Deadline for Abstract submission: the end of April

Review of abstracts: May

PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION FORM

The 13^th CASEE Conference: “Smart Life Sciences and Technology for Sustainable Development”

28^th-30^th of June ,2023

Chisinau, Technical University of Moldova

List of suggested hotels

1.  https://hoteliris.md/ru ( Close to the University) There are available 10 rooms on 13
   May
2.  http://www.lidia.md/ru/ ( City centre)
3. http://citypark.md/ ( City centre)
4. https://bristol.md/ ( City centre)

ORGANAZING COMMITTEE

• Rector, University prof. Viorel BOSTAN
• Vice Rector, Daniela POJAR
• Director of doctoral School, Rodica SIMINIUC

PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE

Book of abstracts (draft version)

CASEE_Conference-Book-of-abstracts