Well over four hundred foreign students applied to attend courses in Iceland!
From March 10 to 18, an international course will be held in Iceland under the auspices of BEST in Iceland. BEST (Board of European Students of Technology) is a European association of university students in technology.
A total of 81 European universities in 30 countries are members of the association, but an Icelandic member association was founded by students at the University of Iceland in 2005. The main purpose of BEST is to offer students at member universities additional education in the form of short courses as well as giving students the opportunity to learn languages of other nations.
The course that will be held in Iceland next week is entitled “Eat that! Innovation in food technology and nutrition "and is run by BEST in close collaboration with Matís (www.matis.is) and the University of Iceland, in addition to which Reykjavík University, Landspítali University Hospital, Marel and Lýsi are involved in the project.
The course will cover "nutrition in innovation" from A to Z. During the week-long stay, the European students will listen to lectures by professors at the University of Iceland, Matís employees and working engineers, visit Icelandic companies and visit field guards. The students will also visit Gullfoss and Geysir and Jökulsárlón, among other places.
It should be noted that the students who found out in this course only have to pay for part of the fare to and from the country, but a grant was received from Europe in Youth for all other costs of the course for each participant.
There was great interest in the course, with a total of four hundred European university students applying. As the number of participants was limited, only 22 came to Iceland on this occasion. The number of applications shows that there is a great deal of interest among educated European young people to learn from Icelanders about food and nutrition as well as to get to know a country and a nation.
Please contact the President of BEST in Iceland for further information and interviews.
Berglind Rós Gunnarsdóttir
President of the BEST in Iceland
Board of European Students of Technology
www.BEST.eu.org
S: 866-3650
Email: berglind@bestreykjavik.com