As a cooperator of the first variant of the WUR Student Challenge , experts from Syngenta Netherlands , including Syngenta Flowers , bear students with the ontogeny of forward-looking ideas for challenges in the agricultural sphere . The theme of the challenge is ‘ rethink protein ’ : how can we course 9 billion people with level-headed , sustainable and low-priced protein ?
" This great undertaking of Wageningen University & Research ( WUR ) gives top talents from the sphere the opportunity to evolve ideas themselves " , excuse Ward Clevers of Syngenta Flowers . " If some of the ideas fit well with Syngenta , we will start to coach the students . "
Remco van den Berg ( Crop Planner , Syngenta Vegetable seeds ) , Remco Peerdeman ( R&D Project Lead , Syngenta Flowers ) and Ward Clevers ( Program Manager , Syngenta Flowers )
Syngenta is one of the sixteen companies that head the students in the further elaboration of their programme . Depending on the mind , it is determined which companies can offer the best support . And although the scholarly person ' plan alter widely , they all have a common end . Ward : " scholar mainly look for innovative ways to make or use proteins . "
" There are now 56 project consort and with a third we can really get started " , aver Ward . " An object lesson of a task is finding ways to increase the amount and quality of protein in Timothy Miles Bindon Rice with different technique . "
The WUR Student Challenge is an international competition organize by Wageningen University & Research ( WUR ) , where much research is done in the field of agriculture , environment , environmental science and forestry . Syngenta Flowers has knowledge and experience through specific procreation and applied science , just like Syngenta Vegetables and Crop Protection . “ We want to partake knowledge with the students . Together with Remco Peerdeman and Remco van hideout Berg , it is our role to link the projects to the experts within Syngenta , so that they get the information they call for to go further and make do the projects at a high level . ”
Now that the projects are known , Syngenta take off to collaborate with pupil on their projects . " We are going to coach group , the goal is to check that the projects reach the final and of course win ! "
The 20 honorable ideas will be announced on 2 June and the terminal of the WUR Student Challenge will be on 27 June .
