| Hogeschool is an education centre in biotechnology, landscape, arquitecture and
agriculture. The structure provides basic and advanced courses in Chemist
Engineering, food microbiology, and food technology, specially in dairy, meat
and cereals industries. |
| The microbiology laboratories are equipped with basic and modern
infrastructures, biotechnology installations, with the possibility and the
knowledge to make analysis in hygiene during food production, in special in
dairy products and pathogenic detection. The institute owns a technological
part with a centre of dairy industries, with all the necessary technologies to
produce cheese, yoghurt, powder milk and butter in a pilot scale. |
| The department provides services to industries like quality control and
technical assistance. They have a good scientific knowledge and enough
experience in dairy products technologies, HACCP and risk analysis, as well as,
hygiene courses. This unit participates in a big training network and updating
of the medium and technical grades of the industry people. They participate in
SOCRATES programme and in other international projects in dairy area. This
centre is a member of Europel. |