iaas newsletter mar-arp 2016

International Association of students in Agricultural and related Sciences

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I N T E R N A T I O N A L A S S O C I A T I O N O F S T U D E N T S I N

A G R I C U L T U R A L A N D R E L A T E D S C I E N C E S

March - April

2016 By Sam Raeymaekers

VP Communication IAAS World


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Contents

News from new applying countries .............................................................................................................................. 3

Montenegro ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3

IAAS Guatemala .................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Costa Rica ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5

IAAS Uruguay ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 5

IAAS activities ....................................................................................................................................................................... 6

Exchange Coordinators Meeting 2016 ....................................................................................................................................... 6

Increasing meaningful activity and ensuring funding for the association in Zimbabwe..................................... 8

Food, music and social media in Belgium ................................................................................................................................. 9

IAAS Ecuador ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 11

IAAS Indonesia ................................................................................................................................................................................... 12

IAAS Mexico AgroTour 2016 ....................................................................................................................................................... 14

IAAS Ghana activity collage .......................................................................................................................................................... 16

IAAS Italy .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 17

IAAS Chile - Salida técnica a Viña orgánica y biodinámica Emiliana” (Mayo) ....................................................... 17

Partners events and more ............................................................................................................................................ 18

33rd Session of the Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific ............................................................................... 18

Thought For Food Global Summit ............................................................................................................................................. 20

Upcoming events .............................................................................................................................................................. 22

EC Courier ........................................................................................................................................................................... 25

Josipa Arapović – President ......................................................................................................................................................... 25

Sam Raeymaekers – Vice President of Communication .................................................................................................. 28

Steven Adams – Vice President of Exchange ........................................................................................................................ 30

Lucas Marin – Vice President of External Relations ......................................................................................................... 31

Giannis Chaniotakis – Vice President of Finance ................................................................................................................ 32

Genna, Ohemaa, Yahor – Conrol Committee ......................................................................................................................... 32


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News from new applying countries

2015-2016 will be a year of growth for IAAS. Old committees rebuilding, new committees joining.

IAAS is growing steady! Are you interested in joining IAAS? Get in touch with us!

[email protected] and [email protected].

Montenegro As a new, and to our region

unknown organization, we

started our activities with an

official presentation about

IAAS World and IAAS

Montenegro to the students of

Biotechnical Faculty in our

capital town, Podgorica. We

were more than satisfied with

the number of attendants and

with their enthusiasm for the opportunities IAAS World has to offer. Firstly, we presented our

National Committee, and advised our future members on how to get any further information. We

explained IAAS World's goals, rules, principles and activities hoping to bring us as many members

as possible. We focused mostly on exchange programs and workshops we could organize. IAAS

Montenegro was more than encouraged by the optimism we felt from our students at the cocktail

we held later on. We are hoping to keep the students motivated by conducting other activities

mentioned below.

“It feels so good to be welcomed to FamilIAAS as true members from our first

day. Even though we are newcomers in the IAAS community we hope to

represent our country the way it is:

beautiful, nature-oriented and motived to develop in the field of agriculture. ”

Registering at the national court and establishing connections

We have officially been registered as a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) so that we can start

promoting ourselves even more through various activities.

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We are working to establish connections with some of our local producers so that we can use their

help for our educational workshops regarding practical work in agriculture.

Activities

In one of our workshops, we would like to address one of the biggest ongoing dilemmas in

agriculture. We think our students should start forming their own opinions on this, and other

subjects, and we want to encourage that by holding an Organic vs Conventional production debate.

With a little help from our professors, this could be a very educative, but also a fun program that would, hopefully, even light the path of some of our students' professional future.

We have already joined the worldwide

waste-cleaning action called "Let's do

it". Participants of the section Let's do

it Montenegro, will be separated all

around the country to clean our

polluted areas. This action's goal

would be animating us, the youth to

keep our beautiful sites clean, because

it is our responsibility to take care of

our homeland. This September, it will

be 25 years since Montenegro was

recognized as an ecological state, and

we must work hard to defend this

claim. All of nature's work in forming such beautiful landscapes will be in vain if we don't act fast,

fight against pollution, and prevent all sorts of garbage piling up on our streets, coasts etc.

Communicating within the committee and externally

Communication among our members is very important to us, and in that light, we have started

planning Open days of IAAS Montenegro and a barbecue to maintain office relations, enthusiasm,

and show our members how entertaining all work can be if it's done in a good mood and in a group

of good people.

“Here, in IAAS Montenegro, we believe that great people and a positive

atmosphere is the key to success.

It is wonderful to know that, as agricultural students, we can give back at least

a little bit to our planet, which has given us plenty.”


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IAAS Guatemala The team from Guatemala is reactivating the

committee and promoting the IAAS culture in their

University. They wanted to show the new logo that

they designed after the DMA 2015.

Costa

Rica Costa Rica wants to say hello to the Word! This is the one of

the new committees that started after the DMA 2015. They

have been working to have more members who wants to

have an international experience. The members of the

committee are:

National Director : Estefanía Ortiz Pérez

Exchange Coordinator : Alexander Jimenez Rivera

VP of Finance: William Boniche

VP of Communication: Daniel Mora Castro

VP of External Relations: Wilfredo Farias Jofré

IAAS Uruguay During the DMA 2015 come up to join us, IAAS Uruguay,

this committee has the responsabilitie to organize the next

DMA 2018. Since the beginning of the year they have been

working to get the support of their University and find the

possible sponssors for the next year.

This committee is formed by:

Santiago Leániz Cobo - National Director

Valeria Lista Cedrés - Exchange Coordinator

Leonardo Canedo Maldonado - VP of Finance

Lucas Sabbatella Bianchi - VP of Communication

Paula Assandri Gómez – VP of Project Development


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IAAS activities

Exchange Coordinators Meeting 2016 8 – 15 April, 2016

This year the annual ExCo meeting was held in two of the most beautiful cities of Greece,

Thessaloniki and Volos, from the 8th of April till the 15th of April. Stay tuned for the wrap-up

documents on the trainings and outcome of the sessions!

IAAS members from Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Chile as

well as members from two new IAAS committees (Austria and Bulgaria) gathered in Greece to

exchange their ideas and share their experience upon the Exchange Program, in order to find ways

to improve it.

Trainings and General Assembly in Thessaloniki During the first 3 days in Thessaloniki the schedule was filled with interesting soft-skill trainings

and workshops, a presentation from the IAAS president Josipa Arapovic as well as from the VP of

Exchange Steven Adams and General Assemblies. At the same time, the participants had the

opportunity to visit Thessaloniki and meet its history and architecture.

Volos, company visits, Meteora and more Afterwards, the Event’s journey brought everyone to Volos, city of the Argonauts, where during

the first day the University of Thessaly welcomed us with small presentation and lecture. Later

during the day, participants enjoyed a small city tour and tasted local dishes from the famous

cultural “Tsipouradika” by the port of Volos.


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The next day , our group visited the largest mill company in Greece “Loulis Mills S.A.” and “Family

Farm”, a local sheep farm that produces the worldwide known Greek cheese “Feta“. In the evening

everyone loved the traditional Spoon Sweet workshop at the upper side of Volos by the local

women’s association. Last day, as we said goodbye to Volos, we visited Monasteries on top of the

unique rock formations “Meteora” and returned to Thessaloniki for the goodbye dinner.

The Organizing Committee did an excellent job and all the participants, with their motivation and

excitement, made this meeting an incredible experience!

The Always Motivated,

IAAS Greece

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Increasing meaningful activity and ensuring funding for the

association in Zimbabwe Having social impact We carried out a Clean-Up-Campaign together with some

of the students in the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural

Resources off campus. It was mainly to help keep our

environment clean and bring awareness on the dangers

of throwing litter everywhere. Also shared on the duties

of citizens to use environment friendly things or

products and reduce on the use of those things which

pollute our environment. We promoted the idea of

reusing, reducing and recycling. It is our duty as IAAS

ambassadors to advice people around us that it is our moral duty to keep our environment neat

and clean. It was a great feeling for us all as a team, in knowing that we had helped saving our

environment and organisms from pollution.

Generating funds To generate some money for the organization, we decided to start a project on selling green

mealies. We got 0.7 Ha piece of land from the University, the University farm assisted us with the

seed, fertilizer and water. In most projects, things are hard at first and get easier as time goes on

but for ours, it was vice versa. We got pests and weed infestation that we could not afford to

control in time due to money. And we lost not only a large percentage of our total yield but also

some of our members. “I still remember one Friday morning, when I and our former Project

Manager, Tashinga had to apply the whole field with a fertilizer by hand, finished around 7 pm

and had to prepare for my Agricultural Policy exam which was on the next day ” says Anne-Marie.

Our market was mainly local people because we were

trying not to incur more costs than we already had on

transportation. We got enough money for ourselves to

start another small project and also paid back the money

for the inputs we had gotten from the University. This

was a great experience for we managed to see those

good at team work, those who are dedicated and hold in

them the IAAS-spirit of not giving up. We also managed

to measure ourselves on how much of an extra mile can

we put in our organization. This particular activity had

challenges attached to it but we learnt al ot of good in it,

and got great qualities from it.


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Food, music and social media in Belgium Yes, IAAS Belgium has been busy organizing tasty and interesting activities! Do you like food or

are you a frequent user of social media? Then you’ll be interested in the activities of our

committees.

The Breakfast Action: our national fundraising activity

Every year you can come and enjoy a wonderful breakfast from

IAAS Belgium. Plate full with delicious food and a goodiebag

stuffed with tasty and fun gadgets, what else do you need to start

your morning?

In Leuven they brought the breakfasts to the people’s homes,

while in Ghent you could go and eat your breakfast with your

friends at the faculty. Planning months beforehand, searching for

sponsoring and helping each other whenever needed. It was a

challenge, but the ‘Breakfast action’ was again a success!

Trade fair without stolen flags?!

Trade fair, favorite evening of every IAAS-member. But people who are not involved in IAAS, are

confused (‘Fair Trade’). So IAAS Ghent wanted to change that and organized a trade fair at their

faculty. Everyone was welcome and could eat food from all over the world for a very small price.

They made a nice and professional poster, a Prezi about IAAS and contacted a lot of international

students to cook a typical dish from their own country. Spring-rolls from Vietnam, sweets from

Brazil, bean soup from Bulgaria, … It was all there and people loved it! As it was the first time that

they organized it, it was difficult to predict how many people would come. But a lot, really a lot of

people came with the consequence that the food and drinks were sold out within two hours.

Luckily, they also asked a few bands to play during the whole evening, so people stayed until the


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end to enjoy the music. We can conclude that everybody loves the concept of Trade Fair! Only, the

real IAAS members were really surprised to find out that none of the flags were stolen, an usual

feeling!

Social media is more than only Facebook, what? We all use social media every single day. You are even using it right now! We use it to keep in

touch with our friends and relatives, to share our holiday pictures, and to update our status.

But you can do so much more with it. An important question is: how can we use social media in a

professional way for our organization? That is what Peter Casier, an experienced soft skill trainer

about social media, answered us during the workshop organized by IAAS Leuven. He gave us a

look of all the different forms of social media available today, and the way to use it as a professional

tool.

Unfortunately, the last activities of this semester are finished and everyone is already studying for

their exams. To end this wonderful IAAS year in Belgium, there is an upcoming weekend for IAAS

members. The general assembly will take place then, but also teambuilding activities and a

barbecue are on the schedule!

IAAS Belgium also has a website now. It’s only in Dutch at the moment, but the English version

will be available soon. So, if you want to practice your Dutch or just have a look at the pictures and

activities, you can find it on: http://iaasbelgium.wix.com/iaasbelgium.

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IAAS Ecuador Reforestation, March 19 IAAS Ecuador participed in a big Reforestation in all the country.

The activity was organized by the ministry of environment and

some ONG like IAAS, RENAJU. This initiative aims to generate

environmental awareness among citizens about the

importance of forests and ecosystems, promoting

actions such as reforestation, which contribute to the

mitigation of climate change and ensure the natural

heritage for present and future generations.

More than 30,000 volunteers planted 300,000 native

trees at key sites around the country. It was planned

the participation of 20 thousand people.

Hour of the Planet, March 19 A symbolic activity was made by

the members of IAAS Ecuador.

The 19 of march was the hour of the planet so the members of IAAS

organized material to expose about the importance of take care the planet

and practicing a sustainable agriculture and ask to the people own phrases for the planet. The activity was held in front of the Government palace. At

the end, the team of work had an interview with some media partners.

International Water Day, 22 March IAAS Ecuador was present in the International day of

the water.

IAAS Ecuador participated as an exhibitor in a

conference about Technology and Innovation in Quito

(Cumanda Park). The principal topic was the

importance of water and how to take care of it. After

the exposition, the IAAS members had a place to

expose to students of different colleges and

universities the importance of having a sustainable

agricultura and also the importance of the vital liquid.


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IAAS Indonesia International Earth Day Celebration

by IAAS Local Committee Lambung Mangkurat

University (ULM)

IAAS LC ULM had two events to celebrate the

earth day. First, earth day was celebrated on

Friday, 22nd April 2016 at IAAS LC ULM Village

Concept Project. This event can we called as “Tour

de’ VCP IAAS LC ULM”. We taught how to

managed waste bank and how to make a simple

hydroponics plant methods. We also shared

about utilizing organic waste such as vegetables

which will be used as local microorganisms.

Those local microorganisms will be used as

natural pesticide and decomposer for making

organic manure.

The second event was carried out at Banjarbaru

Car Free Day on May 1st, 2016. We made oration

to raise the general public awareness about the

importance of maintaining the sustainability of

the earth by not littering. Usually, many visitors

of Car Free Day event were not concerned with

their waste. At this time, we have “exchange trash

activities” with Pumpkin Churros using by local

pumpkin made by ourselves.

TAJI BERPIJAR The new shining eco-tourism village by IAAS Local Committee Brawijaya University (UB) Background Village Taji is an Indonesian village located in East Java

34 Km from Malang City. Taji has many potential

resources such as natural resources, agricultural

commodities, friendly community, and potency

of tourism. Most of local community in Taji works

as farmer and farmworker that produce

agriculture commodity like Horticulture crops

chili, cabbage, carrots, Apple, Corn and Cassava.

Taji has two formal school they are SDN 1 Taji


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and SDN 2 Taji which has 60 students and 3 teachers with educational activities from Monday

until Saturday.

Proposed Project “Taji Berpijar” This program will be held at SDN 2 Taji which has 2 classrooms, the first classroom is for the class

1 and 2, and the second one is for the class 3, 4, and 5. The program will be done in 12 meetings

include teaching about basic english, agriculutre and environmental. Through this Taji Berpijar,

we try to give the children additional education which they don’t get from school and help the

teachers in achieving their goals. From these activities, we will try to make the children to be

motivated to study and increase the love of the children in agriculture and environment through

modern agriculture like hydroponics and verticulture which are applied in school.

Entrepreneurship and Development of Local Communities Entrepreneur team in Taji Berpijar will focus on the development of commodity which is

horticultural crops such as cabbage, carrots, peppers, apples, cassava, sweet potatoes, and many

others. We are going to make some food products that made from those local commodities to

increase the sale value with empowering and training the housewives. From this program, we

hope that we can help the villagers to build a cleaner, smarter, and more independent village.

“The best way to not feel hopeless is

to get up and do something.

Don’t wait for good things to happen

to you. If you go out and make some

good things happen, you will fill the

world with hope.

You will fill yourself with hope”


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IAAS Mexico AgroTour 2016 March 17 to 20, Mexico

From March, 17th to 20th we experienced de Agrotour 2016 with the objective of bring and

motivate new people to IAAS México to know more about de Agroindustry world and the new

challenges.

With students of Agronomy and Biotchnology and one coordinator, we traveled from Querétaro

city, the IAAS México house , to Jalisco visiting different localities from the beauty state of Jalisco.

DOW Semillas. Agrosciences (Sayula, Jalisco)

Leader company on biotechnology; we visited de experimental crops, where they make different

hybridizations with varieties of corn plants to search genetic improvement in all aspects, caring

about resistance, pests or drought.

Driscoll’s (Tapalpa, Jalisco)

Company dedicated to sales of berries (strawberry, cranberry, bluebaerry, raspberry). We visited

the differrent producers that harvest the most quality fruit for sales to national an internacional

levels as exportations. Also we knew the refrigerators where they keep the berries fresh for

distribution and sendings.


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Bionat-Sano (Huaxtla, Jalisco)

A relative new company dedicated to distribution of aditives and formulation for mixtures in

order to maintain animal nutrition. –they focus on the improvemetn of digestibility of the animal and feed converstion. Their trend is to develop and grow upwith thir potential spreading in

México.

Corona (Guadalajara, Jalisco)

Company beer leader con elaboration, distribution and sales in

Mexico and since 2013 the beer world leader company. It

exports 8 brands and has presence on more than 180 countries.

During the visit they showed us that they worry about nature

and enviroment. Corona recycles the CO2, bottles, condensed

water, etc.

Tequilera “La Cofradia” (Tequila , Jalisco)

We visited the agave (and its requirements) production and the hole process to end as a Tequila,

the one that everybody knows. We learned about the “jima” (cutting the plant), the cooking and

the distilled to obtain a drink. HE have the honored presence also of Union of Agronomy alumni:

national IATEM.


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IAAS Ghana activity collage

Meeting at Winneba

IAAS Entertainment

IAAS UG Mushroom project

IAAS Ghana Institution Competition

IAAS Entertainment

National cloth IAAS Ghana

IAAS Ghana Institution Competition

IAAS UG Maize Farm

Educational outreach

IAAS KUNST Farm Project

IAAS UG Coconut Farm

Educational outreach


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IAAS Italy News from the committee of IAAS Perugia, who has rebuilt itself to 20 members! Fermentum Umbrae Workshop on the realization of artisanal beer, talk with local artisanal brewers and tasting.

IAASpettando la Primavera – second edition

social lunch. 10th March 2016, Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences

(University of Perugia).

Members participating in international meetings

- EDM 2015/16 Greece (Thessaloniki): Antonio Russo, Tommaso Cariglia

- ExChange Week Switzerland 2016: Antonio Russo, Antonello Gualtieri, Lucia Giordano

- Ex-Co Meeting (Greece) 2016: Irene Tozzi

- Seminar IAAS Germany (Hohenheim) 2016: Monica Capra

IAAS Chile - Salida técnica a Viña orgánica y biodinámica

Emiliana” (Mayo) In the Colchagua Valley, 20 students of Agronomy of the Universidad Mayor, they entered Placilla

sector, to go to the field Los Robles Vina Emiliana, marveling at the autumnal tones of the place.

There we received three professionals who showed us everything in great detail during this outing

the students learned about the system of organic grape wine productive, export wines, and the

main differences between a traditional vineyard and organic one. Many knew biodynamics, and

also delighted with the social commitment that had the company towards its workers.

"It was a good chance to learn about another area of agriculture, the truth did not expect that in

Chile there were organic, biodynamic and a commitment to their workers superlative vineyards.

The Emiliana vineyard is an example to follow, respects the environment and above all care about improving the quality of life of their workers, which today is a rare and remarkable practice

"participant Testimony:

Felipe Soto Sobarzo.

The trip took three hours

took advantage of that

time in the bus to talk

with participants to tell

you that is IAAS, telling

our experiences in

international activities

and inviting them to

become members.


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Partners events and more

33rd Session of the Regional Conference for Asia and the

Pacific March 11, 2016

Two IAAS students, Anjela and Anggita from IAAS Indonesia, were present at the FAO Regional

Conference for Asia and the Pacific Putrajaya, Malaysia, 7-11 March 2016!

Read more about the FAO conference here: http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/aprc33/en/

Are you interested in the IAAS – FAO partnership? Do you want to represent IAAS at an FAO event?

Wait for an IAAS application form for a FAO meeting or propose your own campaign at

[email protected] and [email protected].

The Conference’s theme The FAO Regional conferences for Asia and the Pacific is one of FAO biannual conferences that

focusses on the opportunities and challenges in Asia and the Pacific. This year, Conference was

successfully hosted by the Ministerial of Agro-based Industry Malaysia from 7 until 11 March

2016. At the 4th day, there was an opening remark from Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, HE

Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, accompanied by remarks from the Director-General of FAO, Dr.

José Graziano da Silva. Beside of that, this conference was also attended by the representative

from 44 fao’s member , an observer from FAO, 8 international NGO’s including IAAS, and 34 intra-

government organization.

The activities and discussions During the first three days, the discussion led by senior government officer and on 10 and 11

march there was ministerial-level meeting. As FAO’s governing body, this conference has resulted

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in the draft resolution that focuses on a discussion of the challenges and opportunities of various

countries in Asia Pacific in order to achieve FAO’s program which is Sustainable Development

Goals (SDG) by 2030. The discussion also focused on the policy and regulations in the Asia – Pacific

region,

Reducing hunger and poverty, revitalizing the rural economy through enhanced linkages between

small-scale agricultural production and value chains, and ‘blue growth.’ Besides of that, there was

also held a roundtable discussion about the strategy to attract youth in agriculture. The discussion

was held due to lack of interest of youth to be involved in the agricultural sector , but it is

undeniable that the agricultural sector is one of the largest contributors to the GDP. They hope

that there will be a lot of youth who engaged in this sector to promote the agricultural sector in

the future.

Our experiences As an observer on behalf of IAAS, Anjela from IAAS Indonesia LC UGM and Anggita from IAAS

Indonesia LC Unpad feeling so interested in the discussions at the conferences. These conferences

also lead them to “the great people” behind the country and people who care about agriculture.

Also, they were feeling so happy because there was some field trip to “Crop For the Future” where

they can learn about growing and utilizing the seeds in order to strengthen food and nutritional

security under climate change in Asia and Pacific region. Anjela and Anggita were the only one

who came as students, but it didn’t make them feeling so upset because this conference was a good

opportunity to expand networking and experiences.


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Thought For Food Global Summit April 1-2, Zurich, Switzerland

As an official partner of TFF, IAAS members were invited to join the Summit in Zurich on 1 – 2 April. IAAS Switzerland, Belgium and the IAAS World Board were present. The Summit consisted of workshops, speeches and pitches of the finalist teams, all tackling the global challenge of feeding 9 billion people by 2050!

IAAS was present with 20 enthusiast members coming from IAAS Switzerland, IAAS Belgium and the IAAS World Board!

More info? TFF’s website TFF’s Facebook TFF’s blog

The two day event After the opening keynote and lightning talks, we had 7 different THINK & MAKE workshop series to choose from: Growing Innovations, Sustainable Business, Hacking Biology, Empowering the Crowd to Influence Change, Potential in Open Data, Nutrition & Health, and Natural Resources and Climate Change. In the THINK session we examined and debated the world’s prevailing assumptions and how these are being turned on their heads through new thinking, new technologies and new business models. After the lunch break we continued with the MAKE part, which consisted of case studies, hands-on learning and development of new solutions. After the workshop series the groups gathered on the main stage for the Three Horizons (by the Global

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Knowledge Initiative) plenery session. We tried to connect the dots between the present and our desired future, while also defining the pathways for innovation required to get there.

In the evening, the fondue dinner offered the opportunity to share your ideas and discuss with people from all over the world and different backgrounds.

The second day was more about the TFF challenge itself. After the morning activities and updates from last year’s winning teams (FoPo Food Powder and FoodFresh) the 10 finalists took the stage to pitch their big ideas on how to feed the world. All pitches consisted of a short video about the team, a presentation, and some questions by the judges. While waiting for the final results, we had the chance build our personal and professional skills in practical workshops. The topics ranged from productivity hacks to financing, from storytelling to social media, and much more.

Winning teams After the announcement of the winners – Kulisha, Biteback, Peer-to-Peer Probiotics and Fruti-

Cycle – the TFF Global Summit 2016 terminated with drinks, dinner and an unforgettable After Party!

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Upcoming events

IAAS World Congress 2016 22 July – 10 August, Indonesia

With proud we announce the next IAAS World Congress, 59th edition! Find more info on the

Official IAAS WoCo Indonesia Facebook page.

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Exchange Week IAAS Perugia 14 to 19 July

IAAS ASA Sassari, IAAS Croatia, IAAS Greece, and IAAS Switzerland are invited to learn, exchange

and kick-start the summer holidays with a trip to Italy, Perugia!

Seminar IAAS Germany, Bonn: Agriculture – changing

structures and new ways to success 12-19 June

We, the IAAS Bonn committee, would love to invite your committee to join our seminar week in

June. Concerning our motto we offer you a diverse programme that guarantees fun, new

knowledge and experiences in the beautiful region of Bonn and Cologne. Please fill out the

following formula to make a confirmed reservation for your place during our seminar week

(deadline: 09.05.2016). Participation fee will be between 20-50 €.

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We confirm that the IAAS Germany (Bonn) bears the costs for food and lodging for the period

mentioned above. Costs for the journey (arrival and departure) and medical insurance are to be

covered by the participant.

We are looking forward to your registration and an exciting week with you! Safe the date =)

Hear you soon and best regards,

Your IAAS Bonn-team

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Want to attend and represent IAAS at an FAO event? Year round

As IAAS and FAO are historical partners, members of IAAS have the

privilege to attend global, regional and national FAO events related to

agro, environment and food topics.

If you are interested and show good motivation to participate at an FAO

event, Sam and Genna guide you in the application process. Don’t hesitate

to take this opportunity and get to know the best of the best professionals

in your field of study!

Contact Sam and Genna: [email protected] & [email protected].

Some possible events that might be interesting for you (you can always browse the FAO’s many

event sites and propose an event you want to attend to us):

FAO Regional Conference for Europe May 2-5, Antalya, Turkey

FAO Council 154th Session Rome, Italy 30-May-2016 / 03-June-2016

Committee on Forestry and Committee on Fisheries July

Committee on Agriculture September

Committee on World Food Security October




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EC Courier

Executive Committee together at the ExCo Meeting 2016, Greece

Josipa Arapović – President Second Strategy Meeting Leuven

As a team leader I planned, facilitated and lead the second SM with a very positive feedback received

Setting of goals and evaluation for the whole team, with a lot of improvements and feedback discussed

New email addresses

Constant communication with IAAS network to make the official change to new email addresses

Working together with Jo Stulens, IAAS Alumni, who created the new and professional

IAAS email addresses

Working to solve any problems that may have occurred with the email transition

Full members

With goal to unite the entire IAAS network in ambition and direction and provide laser-like focus for the network as a whole. Implementing a comprehensive bottom-up process

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Beeing in touch with National Directors to offer advice and help them when and where needed

Had live and skype meetings with Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Poland, Sweden, Taiwan.

Candidate members

Intensive meetings, coordination and support following up on new and old member countries such as: Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Morocco, Montenegro, Uruguay,

Working in a strategy to ensure a successful long term development of new National Committees

Meeting with students interested to join IAAS and open a committee in their home countries, explaining everything about IAAS, how it functions, developing clear goals

until their membership review at WOCO16 as well as motivating them and staying in

constant contact to support their work.

Regional Directors

I have been actively in touch with all of the Regional Directors:

RD of Africa, Ouma to provide help, mentoring and share advices, strengthening the African Region and to look for new member countries on the continent (online meetings)

RD of America, Luis, to provide mentoring and offer help for the contact with the candidate members in America (online meetings + phone calls)

RD of West Europe, Paco, to track the work done, provide support and motivation as well as help to strengthen and amplify IAAS Sweden (online meetings)

RD of Central Europe, Ilias, to track the work done and provide help, support and guidance with contacting new candidate members (online & live meetings)

RD of Asia Pacific, William, to provide help, mentoring and share advices, strengthening

the Asia Pacific Region and to look for new member countries on the continent (online

meetings)

Improving the connection of RD’s to their regions and the Executive Committee

Strengthen internal contact and the activity in the region through the Regional Directors

Administrative work

Intensive weekly EC & CC meetings

Corresponding with our members and partners

In constant contact with our members and partners


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Sponsor Document for IAAS world

Creating a coordinated program of Strategic communication to advance the institutional objectives of IAAS towards interested companies and possible sponsors

Together with Lucas (VP of External Relations), we created the first official Sponsor Document in IAAS World, aimed at collecting funds for IAAS World. It’s an important

document in the process of going from sponsorship seeker to marketing partner.

Together, we conducted 7 key sections of IAAS sponsorship proposal :

1 - Sponsorship Opportunity ( Executive summary or synopsis focusing on the benefits and

outcomes for the sponsor)

2 - Marketing Objectives (creating a social media strategy and developing a Facebook fan base of

5000)

3 - Measures of Success (Document the quantitative and qualitative metrics we will use to

measure the success of the sponsorship program)

4 - Value to the Sponsor (Through good management and thorough research we already have

this information straight)

5 - Unique Marketing Initiatives(Through good management and thorough research we included

information regarding the target audience that's relevant to the sponsor)

WOCO Preparations

Helping the organising committee of World Congress 2016

I have several meetings every week with the OC, providing guidance, advices and organising the General Assembly

EU grant

Together with Giannis (Vice President of Finance), we worked on very time consuming

and administrative task of the Erasmus+ grant for the upcoming year as well as

submitting the Erasmus+ grant report for the past year

Exchange Coordinators Meeting in Greece

Communication with OC, following the progress of the organization and offering support

with the organisation of the meeting and trainings

Preparing the ExCo Meeting assembly and trainings

Coordinated, created and held workshops and trainings for the participants from countries interested in joining IAAS World network

Supervising the trainers and trainings preparations and taking care of the handouts

The work of the OC and the participants were very high quality!


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This is just the beginning of how we are going to use the youth power to change the world, we

are ready for 2020! Are you?

If you have any questions regarding IAAS of myself, or any inputs or advices you would like to

share, feel free to contact me at [email protected] and I will be happy to answer!

Thanks for reading this and I hope to meet you at an IAAS event!

Lots of love,

Josipa

President [email protected]

Sam Raeymaekers – Vice President of Communication Hi there!

From January until April I have been doing the following things:

Daily contact

With the IAAS Colleagues (my EC teammates, National Directors and those who have questions

for the board) and with partners & other associations. Weekly meetings with the EC team.

Participation at events

Thought For Food Global Summit Switzerland Representing the Board at the TFF Global Summit, one of IAAS Worlds partners. A lot of great

connections were made, new students made aware of IAAS, the partnership TFF-IAAS is growing

and at the moment we are working together with TFF finalist teams and partners in order to

expose IAAS’ers with the youth-entrepreneurial spirit. Find our members’ experiences about the

TFF Global Summit here!

IAAS ExCo Meeting 2016 Greece As part of EC I was also present in Greece in order to link with the members, contribute to the

sessions and spend time for the first tie with the complete EC, reunited in Greece! In specific, I was

contribution to the New Members session and Online Communication training. We came up

with a collection of tips & tools for new members to use in order to i) attract new members and

promote about IAAS and ii) keep your members motivated once they are part of the team. Promo-

materials and tips to manage your new committee can be found here.



http://www.tffchallenge.com/summit

http://www.iaasworld.org/iaas-at-the-thought-for-food-global-summit-2016/

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0da7ZcjEM7yLUVHVFM4TE1IaG8&usp=sharing


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Third Strategy Meeting

The 3rd strategy meeting was a big success for our team. I participated to the discussions and we

came up with some good strategies towards the end of our term + towards shaping IAAS for the

future.

In specific, I will be working on: - IAAS Video’s - EC&CC applications - EC hand-over - IAAS2020 social media campaign - amendments to the constitution - WoCo planning

Improvements to the website

The freshly made website next year has a great set of assets and also a great improvement

opportunities. Changes were made to overall lay-out, graphical content and text-load.

Next on the agenda are creating a functioning and attractive news blog and linking this efficiently

to the other social media platforms.

New applying IAAS Member Countries

I’m in touch and actively including the new applying countries with pleasure! I’m putting extra

focus on the following countries:

Morocco: will apply at WoCo, planning on having 3 local committees and good structure

Tunisia: will apply at WoCo, establishing at the prestigious national university INAT

Netherlands: will apply at WoCo, working together in 2 locations: Wageningen and HAS

Israel & Prague: first steps to re-establish IAAS Israel and get IAAS Prague more active

Communication Quality Board and changing communication structure

The Communication Quality Board (CQB) is finalized and structure and functioning are being

evaluated. Last month’s we made great progress and this will make sure the next VPC will be able

to right in from the start!

Working together with: - Regional Directors - Social Media Manager (Georgia from Greece)

- Graphical Designer Team (IAAS Indonesia team) - IAAS Magazine editor (Indonesian team)

IAAS Annual Review 2015 and Newsletters

The Annual Review of IAAS in 2015 was successfully finished, and we’re very proud of it! You can

find it here. As editor I enjoyed working a lot with the content from friends and colleagues all over

our network.

https://issuu.com/iaas_world/docs/iaas_annual_review_2015


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The communication between National Directors, Regional Directors and the EC has improved

quite a lot. The IAAS Newsletters are full of reports and announcements of inspiring and

innovative activities, events and announcements. The flow of information between the

newsletters, different social media and website can continuously improve and become more

efficiently! Together with the CQB we are working on this.

IAAS Video’s

The lost IAAS Video channel is being built up again, showing a collection of activities all around

our network. Does your Committee have IAAS related video-reports and announcements?

Share it with me in order to reach a larger crowd!

Let’s talk soon :)

Sam Raeymaekers

VP Communication [email protected]

Steven Adams – Vice President of Exchange Dear Expro lovers;

Last months were very exciting for Expro. Together with the ITC we spend lots of time to prepare

the assembly of the Exchange Coordinators meeting and make the best possible out of it. The

outcome of every session can be found in the report of the event, which will be shared with all

exchange coordinators and national directors before the end of the month. Training topics were

carefully selected, not only to improve Expro but topics which are very useful for all aspects of our

IAAS network. The delegates were trained in communication, fundraising, project management

and so much more. The backbone of the assembly were the presentations, given by several EC and

ITC members, spiced with triggering groups discussions and workshops. Ask the delegates to tell

you more about everything they have learned. Big thanks to the committee of Thessaloniki. They

organized an extra-ordinary schedule to reward the participants for the hard work. Together with

some motivated people we are combining all the outputs and try to create a fixed proposal which

can be discussed at Woco in Indonesia.

All the discussions about this new structure are the most time consuming activity since several

months but beside that, I try my best to complete other tasks as well, including; keep website up

to date, helping committees which are starting Expro, Skype meetings with Exco’s, in contact with

possible new partners for Expro and much more.

If you have questions about Expro or if you want to be involved, don’t hesitate to contact me. Expro

can use many helping hands and this interesting business is a perfect place to learn and develop

yourself.

http://www.iaasworld.org/newsletters/



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Thanks for reading this and hope to meet you at an IAAS event!

Lots of IAAS love,

Steven,

VP of Exchange [email protected]

Lucas Marin – Vice President of External Relations Dear IAAS’ers around the world, it is a pleasure for me to deliver these lines to you and talk about

these last months were a lot of thing happen.

My first month as VP of External Relations I was working in China in a company related with

quality control of fresh fruits, once my contract finished I didn't think twice so I took my baggage

and came to work at the headquarters office in KU Leuven, Belgium. The first stop was the

Exchange Coordinators Meeting in Greece, were the whole EC team where together planning the

next steps and strategy for our organization. These months were a huge challenge, trying to find

the better way to solve the issues that concern IAAS related with our marketing and sponsoring

policy, taking in account different opinions and ideas from our members and alumni. This work is

translated in the new sponsor document that is focused in a serious and detailed analysis

regarding our strategy for IAAS 2020.

The third strategy meeting held in our headquarters this last weekend was the opportunity to

discuss and prepare our strategy regarding IAAS 2020 that will be our guidelines for the next 4

years. The challenges, opportunities and possibilities for our association are huge; this is the open

door for the new IAAS for which I am sure will increase the opportunities for our members

globally.

I am excited to present our work during the next World Congress in Indonesia and share our

experience with our members around the world.

Lucas Marin

VP External Relations [email protected]




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Giannis Chaniotakis – Vice President of Finance No report delivered

[email protected]

Genna, Ohemaa, Yahor – Conrol Committee As a CC we have been attending and moderating EC meetings, holding individual meetings with

our EC members, and providing feedback and guidance for their questions. We continue to

observe that the actions of the EC are in accordance with the IAAS Constitution and By-Laws.

Overall, the work of the EC contributes to the success of the association.

In the coming months, the CC will help EC prepare the General Assembly, including a membership

review, final evaluation of the work of the EC, and assist with recruiting the next EC and CC.

Yahor Vetlou

In the previous months, I attended the Council of Europe seminar in Strasbourg, France regarding

European Youth Foundation. So now I have more clear idea of how to write successful applications

for funding from the Council of Europe. I also attended a perfect Exchange Coordinator Meeting in

Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently, I am fully immersed into my academic life since I have a lot of

upcoming exams.

In the previous months, I was mainly working with Giannis as Vice President of Finance, as I have

some experience in this field before. So far his personal and work together is going pretty well.

Everything that is planned has been achieved. I cannot say the same about Lucas, Vice President

of External Relations, as our work was not completely productive for last months, but I am sure

that in upcoming months it will be better.

Ohemaa Mensah

In the past months, I followed VPE Steven during the planning, execution, and follow-up for the

Exchange Coordinators Meeting. We also improved on our lack of communication as compared to

previous months. I am currently working with VPC Sam to solve problems on lack of

communication between the EC and IAAS Africa. In addition, I am assisting with preparations for ADM 2016 and working a lot on building my local chapter, including procuring funds for its Green

Week.

Genna Tesdall

As Control Committee, I am in correspondence via email and Skype with my EC members Josipa

and Sam. They are keeping a positive outlook on IAAS and have a great deal of energy. Together,

the CC will plan our activities for the rest of the IAAS year. I am still evaluating whether I can

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For my duties to FAO, I have requested applications for those wishing to observe the FAO

Commission on Phytosanitary Measures and the FAO Regional Committee for Europe and Central

Asia. No IAAS member was able to attend these meetings. Observer places for upcoming meetings

will continue to be advertised.

Related to IAAS, I am in correspondence with the FAO. For my master’s thesis, which will be

external to IAAS, but serve the association, I am planning a research study to map all youth

programs in FAO, their scope, and impact. The goal is to identify strengths of current programs and opportunities for improvement. I am in consistent contact with Josipa and Lucas regarding

this work.


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Call for Articles

Did you organize an event?

Do you want to share anything with IAAS World and its

partners

Send your article with pictures to

[email protected] before the 20th of

December, 2015

This IAAS Newsletter was brought to you by Sam Raeymaekers

Leuven, May 2016



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