IFL has been actively involved in the education of students at the university level in this country for a long time, for example, BS studies in food science at H.Í. partly to IFL and permanent teachers H.Í. in food processing and engineering have facilities at IFL. Many projects in postgraduate studies in food science, industrial engineering and fisheries sciences are also carried out and funded by IFL. In recent years, several young, foreign researchers have also stayed temporarily for internships here at IFL. One such person, Judith Reichert from Germany, ends her six-month stay at IFL today.
Judith came here last March under the auspices of the European Union's Leonardo Da Vinci Vocational Training Program and her stay at IFL is part of her internship due to a Diploma in Chemical Engineering at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (University of Applied Science) in Dresden, Germany. She will now go on a few days holiday to her home country before heading to Denmark where she will complete her studies at DTU - the University of Copenhagen early next year.
During her stay at IFL, Judith worked on research in connection with Rannís' project Oxidation in fish and microbiological studies in connection with the AVS project Prevention in aquaculture. According to Guðrún Ólafsdóttir, one of Judith's four mentors here at IFL, IFL's experience of this international collaboration is very good, the researchers who have come here have generally proved to be very enthusiastic and good staff and Judith has been no exception. The connections that are formed in this way can be beneficial for both parties in the future, as the scientific community has not been spared from the globalization that has taken place in most areas in recent years.