The Invitation
It is our privilege and pleasure to invite you and your colleagues to attend
The International Summer School
FOOD SAFETY AND HEALTHY LIVING – FSHL 2026
which will be held in Debrecen, Hungary, during July 26 – August 2, 2026.
This international Summer School offers an interdisciplinary exploration of safe, sustainable, and resilient food systems through a One Health lens. Designed for BSc, MSc and PhD students, the programme covers food safety and food-borne diseases, water sanitation & health, food production animals, food waste reduction, by-product utilization and One Health challenges along the entire food chain. Participants will engage in lectures, case studies and hands-on laboratory and field workshops — including practical sessions on food by-product recovery — while gaining insight into global challenges shaping the future of food systems. The Summer School provides a unique opportunity to develop scientific skills, strengthen international collaboration and explore innovative solutions for healthier people, animals and environments.
The organization of this event has as aims familiarization of medical undergraduate/ master’s/ PhD students with:
- current themes in the field of nutrition, food safety, healthy living
- new techniques for the analysis of compounds from various biological matrices
- modern (tele)diagnosis applications, (tele)monitoring in the life sciences
- classical and new teaching/learning/assessment strategies in this area
Didactical materials and teaching methodologies will be usefully also for educational staff or learners, increasing the cooperation between institutions/organizations. We will also try to identify ways in which, together with the partner institutions, programs for the preparation of bachelor’s theses and doctoral theses can be realized.
The Aims and Objectives
The priority of this summer school is the education of undergraduate and postgraduate students (master and PhD) using pedagogical strategies for teaching/learning/evaluation in the field of food safety in order to have a healthy living.
Other focuses of the summer school will be:
- to promote (tele)monitoring using classic and modern methods as demand for lifelong learning initiatives for the fields of life sciences, teaching undergraduate/master/PhD students from partner institutions
- to organise a Summer School involving students and teachers from partner institutions
- to identify ways to have joint theses and PhD coordination between the partner institutions
- to have contribution to the dissemination of the products and activities, using all the ways involving also other interested academic or non-academic media
Didactical materials and teaching methodologies will be usefully also for educational staff or learners, increasing the cooperation between institutions/organizations.
Topics
- Antioxidants – Ongoing Challenges in Food Science and Human Health
- A “One health” approach to fish-borne parasitic zoonoses
- Stress. How is do it?
- Nutritional status and research synergies in Albania: trends, challenges, and collaborative pathways to better health and sustainable diets
- Nutrition-related behaviors and the quality of life among individuals diagnosed with HIV/AIDS: a cross-sectional study examining the influence of socio-economic status and nutritional habits in Albania
- Antimicrobial Resistance at the Intersection of Environment, Animals, and People – A Food Safety One Health Perspective
- Invasive but valuable: unlocking the health potential of knotweed species
- Innovative strategies for plant-based products development
- Utilization of FTIR-PLSR for the quantification of organic molecules in food samples
- Mitigation strategies for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in heat-processed meat: bridging food safety and public health
