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 and animals, food waste reduction, by-product utilisation, 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 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 thesis and PhD coordination between the partner institutions;
- to make a contribution to the dissemination of the products and activities, using all the ways involving also other interested academic or non-academic media.
Didactic materials and teaching methodologies will also be helpful for educational staff and learners, thereby increasing cooperation between institutions/organisations.
Topics
- Food Production Animals
- Food safety & borne disease
- Food waste reuse
- Water sanitation & health
- One Health & Food workshop: collection of opinions
- Food borne outbreak: model outbreak investigation in groups
- Barriers to food waste reuse
- One Health in the EU legislation explorative workshop
