Annual Review - 2019/2020 | IAAS's Report

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Annual Review2019/2020 | IAAS’s Report

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International Association of Students in Agricultural and Related Sciences

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Welcome to the Annual Review of IAAS 2019/2020

3 Annual Report 2019/2020

Content List

Intro Message

Section 1: Welcome to IAAS

Section 2: Our IAAS Network

Section 3: Meet Our Team

Section 4: World Congress 2019

Section 5: Our 2019/2020

Section 6: Our Exchange Program

Section 7: Our Partners

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Editor’s Note

Festus SeptianYosafatGlobal Vice President of Communication2019/2020


Intro Message

First of all, I would like to say thank you for allIAASer worldwide. Because without theirhard work and their motivation, we wouldnot make this Annual Review. We know thatwhen we work together, we grow, and we areable to reinvent ourselves every single day,and this is all for our beloved IAAS.

Second, I would like to give a big hug andthank all the Regional Boards of IAAS and allNational Committees who worked hard tomake our association alive even during theCOVID-19 Pandemic. Every initiative tomake our association alive is what makes me,and everyone in the world, happy andstronger! It is a great pleasure to work witheveryone of you in such a diverse team.

Finally, to my Executive Board and ControlBoard 19.20, who supported me with tons ofadvices, trainings, meetings, and even personalspace for us to share our thoughts during ourwork. They have been part of my life changing,and also my family. So many things happenedin our term just like in a family, but they are mybest partners that shaped me until this day.

In this opportunity, I provide you with thisAnnual Review that will give you a clearoverview of our activities in IAAS during 2019until 2020. I hope you can enjoy our AnnualReview, and hopefully it will give you lots ofmotivation and enthusiasm for the next term!

Thank you for all Communication Team 2019/2020!

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From #FamilIAAS to #FamilIAAS



THISIS OURSTORY.

Welcome to IAAS

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President’s word

Omar FarhateIAAS World President2020/2021



Dear all!

It has been a year full of challenges for allinternationally-run organizations such asours. The travel restrictions that wereimposed have for sure impacted all of ourcommittees making them unable to holdexchanges, to organize events or to simplygather. Our most important events such asthe Exchange Coordinators Meeting and theWorld Congress were held online whilefortunately the Directors’ Meetings & Sub-regional Meetings of all the regions tookplace physically before the start of the globalpandemic in Indonesia, Germany, Sweden,Greece, Ghana and Paraguay in addition toseveral local events.

2019/20 was a mandate we will never forget!IAAS members throughout the globe cametogether despite the global pandemic andwere able to step forward and make animpact globally through our onlinegatherings, internal meetings, lectures, globalprojects, campaigns and trainings…In 2019/20, we were able to supportcommunities in rural villages in bothMorocco and Indonesia through our VillageConcept Projects.In 2019/20, we were able to make campaignsto reduce ‘Food Waste’ ; to inform about theimportance of ‘Food Safety’; to motivate ourmembers through ‘Humans of IAAS’campaign and to empower the women inagriculture through our ‘Women inAgriculture’ global project.In 2019/20, we opened new ExchangeProgram places in several countries such as:Peru, Mexico, Morocco, Belgium, Greece,Guatemala, Chile, Ecuador, India, andCroatia…

During the Online World Congress, wewelcomed 5 new candidate members: Gambia,Panama, Turkey, Iran and India and two fullmembers: Peru and Nigeria.We created a new region: The Middle East &North Africa and two new independentcommittees: the SECO – Sustainability &Environment Committee which will tackle allmatters related to sustainability and theenvironment and the ISC – the IAAS StrategicCommittee which will make sure there is along term strategy for the association and anannual action plan. A new Executive andControl Board have been elected!

Together with the new team we will give ourbest to make it a successful term. We are ateam from different backgrounds and regions,but yet, we are all part of the same family: thebig FamilIAAS and we are ready to take IAASfurther!Go Further Go IAAS!

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Our History

As the biggest student

organization in the field

of agricultural and

related sciences.



IAAS was established in a decade in which nationsall over the world were still recovering from theharsh devastation and suffering resulting from theSecond World War.

However, young people strongly fostered hopefor progress, peace and stability. Students in thefield of agriculture decided to come together andcreate a new international student platform byestablishing IAAS more than half a century ago1957 in Tunisia.

IAAS was started with only 8 country members atthe beginning. It grew a lot to the organization it isnowadays with over 54 country members withmore than 10.000 members worldwide.

“Our promise is to foster young people with hope for progress, peace and stability.”

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Our Vision and Mission

To promote the exchange

of experience,

knowledge and ideas.



In 2050 the world will count 9 billion inhabitants. They will have an increasing demand for highquality food to be grown in a world with a decreasing availability of usable land and resources.The problem how to feed these 9 billion people in a sustainable way in 2050 is the primechallenge of the agricultural students today. IAAS can play an important role in this field bymaking students aware of the challenges our sector is facing and providing students theknowledge about agriculture in international scale.

From 1957 until today, our vision stayed the same:

“To promote the exchange of experience, knowledge and ideas, and to improve the mutual understanding between students in the field of

agricultural and related sciences all over the world.”

Encouraging the interchange of ideas in all fields of education and practices in Agricultural and Related Sciences.

Promoting the co-operation and understanding between students of Agricultural and Related Sciences from all over the world.

Preparing students to fulfil the challenges of their future work with a practical and global view.

Encouraging the formation and development of local organizations of Students in Agricultural and Related Sciences.

Organizing international meetings, seminars and training periods abroad for students in Agricultural and Related Sciences.

Promoting sustainable Agriculture, economics and food production in the whole world.

Promoting a higher education system of high quality, accessible for everyone.

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Why IAAS?

They said

“this organization will

define the future of

sustainable agriculture

and food production”



Benefits of IAAS

Activate your potential!

Contribute for a better world!

Exchange knowledge!

Make it count!

Through experimental learning, agricultural experiences, internships and soft-skill trainings

We work with our committees across the globe to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals by creating and implementing our Global Projects in agricultural and related sciences.

With our exchange program and events with students from all around the world, you are able to exchange knowledge and experiences in the field of agricultural and related sciences.

Experience life changing moments aborad that let you discuss global & local matters and make new friends from all around the world!

Not yet part of IAAS?

Visit: http://bit.ly/welcometoiaas

http://bit.ly/welcometoiaas

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Our Values

We make sure that our

goals are achieved by

implementing our values



Our Values

IAAS acts towards high quality ofperformance and impact within ournetwork: by providing trainings,and achieving high qualityperformance, by inspiring andempowering future generations toaccomplish meaningful impact. Westrive to mobilize our members totake action and be innovative,while aiming for excellence.

Striving for Excellence

We provide an exceptionalplatform to spread and exchangethe knowledge, experience, ideas,and values we develop with ourmembers all around the world. Weare inclusive by respecting andactively encouraging contributionsby every individual.

Team Focused

IAAS is working to prepare futureprofessionals to address the issuesthat affect agriculture and relatedsciences. Our projects and eventsaim at increasing theunderstanding and opening theconversation on sustainableinnovation in our sector.

Innovation

IAAS 2020 prepares youth to meetthe challenges of their future workwith a practical and globaloverview, by providing leadershippositions on a variety of levels. Weencourage leadership by givingyouth the opportunity to takemeaningful action and empoweringthem to inspire others and make animpact.

Leadership

Our global network provides youththe opportunity to learn,experience, and grow in a multi-cultural setting. We value respectand equality.

Diversity

We act in a sustainable way for ourorganization and society. Ourdecisions consider the needs offuture generations.

Sustainability

We truly believe that preparing and providing the correct tools,connections and worldwide vision to students related with the field ofagriculture and life sciences will develop our members into betterprofessionals who will be highly qualified to affront the futurechallenges of our sector.IAAS is striving towards creating a new generation of passionate andinnovating leaders worldwide. We are a global network of youth that ispursuing excellence by sharing experiences, knowledge and ideas,creating future leaders of agriculture today!With a strong history and over 60 years of existence, we believe thatyouth hold the key to change the world. We are taking the challenge tofeed the continuous growing population while improving the quality ofpeople’s lives at the same time .

Our Commitment

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Once #FamilIAASAlways #FamilIAAS



WE ARE EVERY-WHERE

Our IAAS Network

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Our Organizational Structure

AFRICA

BeninCote D’IvoireGambiaGhanaKenyaMali

NigerNigeriaSouth AfricaTogoUgandaZimbabwe

AMERICAS

ChileCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaMexicoPanama

ParaguayPeruUSA

ASIA PACIFIC

BangladeshIndiaIndonesiaNepalTaiwan



IAAS is present in:

54 Countries120+ Universities10 000+ Members

MENA

EgyptIranMoroccoTunisiaTurkey

EUROPE

AustriaBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCroatiaFrance

GermanyGreeceItalyNetherlandsPolandPortugal

SerbiaSloveniaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine

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Our Organizational Structure

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Our Team in our#FamilIAAS



MEET OUR IAASLEADERS

Meet Our Team

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Meet the Executive Board andControl Board of IAAS World 2019/2020.



Diogo RitaIAAS World President

IAAS Portugal

Omar FarhateGlobal Vice President of Exchange

IAAS Morocco

Festus Septian Yosafat

Global Vice President of CommunicationIAAS Indonesia

Marie-Agnes FineGlobal Vice President of Finance

IAAS France

Adu RichardGlobal Vice President of External

RelationsIAAS Ghana

Kyrill SattlbergerHead of Control Board

IAAS Austria

Hajar HayboutFinance OfficerIAAS Morocco

Asmita GaireMembership Officer

IAAS Nepal

Executive Board

Control Board

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Meet the New Executive Board and Control Board of IAAS World 2020/2021.



Omar FarhateIAAS World President

IAAS Morocco

Eduardo HerreraGlobal Vice President of Exchange

IAAS Ecuador

Festus Septian Yosafat

Global Vice President of CommunicationIAAS Indonesia

Kamiar TorabiGlobal Vice President of Finance

IAAS Belgium

Marie-Agnes FineGlobal Vice President of External Relations

IAAS France

Amal IbijbijenHead of Control Board

IAAS Morocco

Jonathan RixhonFinance Officer

IAAS Belgium

Aya MounierMembership Officer

IAAS Morocco

Executive Board

Control Board

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Meet the Regional Board ofIAAS World 2020/2021.



Mitzi Aguilar

Natalia Aguilera

Eduardo Herrera

Maria Jose Pacheco

Santiago Juarez

Viviana Salgado

Salvatore de Vincentis

Nina Stoop

ChrysostomosSpyropoulos

Thanasis Tsimas Pablo Atienza

KarlAgbodossindji

Ntim GeorgeOwusu

Adetayo Adebisi

Jeff K. Ziwu Aaron Cudjoe

Rifa Naziihah Amannisa Elsa Bikram Nepali

M. Yahya Syabani Dewi Siti

Regional Director Regional Exchange Coordinator

Regional Communication Coordinator

Regional Project Coordinator

Regional External Relations

Coordinator

Regional Finance Coordinator


Regional Project Coordinator


Regional External Relations Coordinator


Regional CommunicationCoordinator

Regional Finance Coordinator

Regional External Relations Coordinator

Regional Director Regional Project Coordinator

Regional Exchange Coordinator


Regional External Relations

& Finance Coordinator

IAAS Americas IAAS Asia Pacific

IAAS Europe IAAS Africa

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OUR20192020

What happened in 19.20?

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IAAS 62nd World CongressCote D’IvoireJuly 2019


IAAS World Congress is our annual event thatgathered all IAAS member across the globe. The62nd IAAS World Congress was held in CoteD’Ivoire with the theme “Flying TowardsAgricultural Transformation” was happened inJuly 12th until 27th of July 2019.

Flying Towards Agricultural Transformation

1st General AssemblyJuly 13th, 2019

The first session started with the OC (Organizingcommittee) presentation and the event overview,followed by the GA welcome speech from thePresident, Natalie Bidner.

In this day we also did the election of thechairpersons and secretaries and all the candidateswere elected by the majority of the presentparticipants. The chairpersons and secretaries areas below:

• Chairperson: Balkrishna Dahal (IAAS Nepal)• Vice Chairperson: Marie-Agnes Fine (IAAS

France)• Secretaries: Richard Adu (IAAS Ghana) and

Chloe Perrier (IAAS France)

In the first day of General Assembly, the main topicof discussions are all about explanation regardingthe General Assembly voting system, GA Reportfrom World Congress 2018, and ended with themembership overview session.

As the membership review discussion, weconcluded the new IAAS candidates member perJuly 2019 are; DRC, Liberia, Peru, Bangladesh,Egypt, Nigeria and Ukraine.

Besides new countries joined IAAS as candidatemembers, we also voted some previous candidatemembers become full member of IAAS, and for thecurrent full members who already paid theirmembership fee to IAAS World. The full membercountries per July 2019 are; Benin, Nepal, Niger,Indonesia, Morocco, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana,Guatemala, Bulgaria, Croatia, Mexico, Taiwan,Chile, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Austria,Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden,Switzerland, and USA.

Some countries were not able to pay theirmembership until July, but we decided to extendthe payment deadline until September 30th. Thecurrent new full member statuses after September30th are; Togo, Kenya, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, CostaRica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Serbia, Poland, andSlovenia.


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2nd General Assembly Regional Reports & Global ProjectsJuly 14th, 2019

The first session for today General Assembly wasstarted with Regional Report’s that presented byevery Regional Directors of IAAS. There are 4region in IAAS which are Africa, Asia Pacific,Americas, and Europe.

Photo: Hanna Roenneke (Regional Director of IAASEurope 2018/2019)

The first Regional Report was presented byRegional Director of IAAS Europe which is HannaRoenneke (IAAS Germany). Hanna explained thatshe and her team in regional were preparing forthe next European Directors Meeting, doingpartnership with EGEA, promoting ExchangeProgram and Development Fund, and alsoarranging lots of events in Europe during 2019. Asfor July 2019, IAAS Europe already had 17 fullmembers with two new candidates (Ukraine andBelarus), with more than 400 active members andproviding 18 Exchange Program spots in 9countries in Europe.

After the presentation from European Region, thenext regional report presentation was from IAASAfrica. The report was presented by the RegionalDirector of IAAS Africa which is Aminou Abbas(IAAS Niger).

Photo: Aminou Abbas (Regional Director of IAASAfrica 2018/2019)

Aminou explained that IAAS Africa has been incontact with 21 African countries, promoting IAASto other universities across Africa through socialmedia, and organizing lots of events which focuseson agriculture livestock, environments, andleadership management. IAAS Africa also has 11Exchange Places in 5 countries.

Finished with the closing speech by Aminou Abbas,the next report is coming from IAAS Asia Pacificwhich presented by the Regional Director of IAASAsia Pacific, Bagus Kresna UDK (IAAS Indonesia).

Photo: Bagus Kresna UDK (Regional Director of IAASAsia Pacific 2019/2020)


Bagus explained his current regional status in AsiaPacific with 5 country members in a video format.The programs that IAAS Asia Pacific alreadyaccomplished were regional online meeting, HelloAsia Pacific, and many projects that held byNational Committee such as National Congress,Field trip, Debates, and Volunteering activitiescalled Village Concept Project. The IAAS AsiaPacific committee also created bi-monthlynewsletter called What’s Up Asia Pacific to keepthe members updated and lastly the onlinecampaign that contribute with Climate ChangeAction.

The last regional presentation was presented bythe Regional Board of IAAS Americas with the helpof Natalie Bidner in explaining the details of thereport.

Photo: Natalie Bidner (IAAS World President2018/2019)

IAAS World Café(SDGs Workshop)

The next session is called World Café or Workshopabout SDGs. There are 4 SDGs topics discussionduring this workshops: SDG 2 Zero Hunger; SDG 4Quality Education; SDG 11 SustainableCommunities: and SDG 13 Climate Action.

SDG 2 Zero Hunger: CounselIAAS

Objective: Raise awareness about food productionand food consumption, and make it moresustainable through the creation of a network. Weneed a responsible conception and production ofthe food; we should focus on giving advices tofarmers because we are producing enough food atthe world scale to achieve zero hunger.

Many foods are stored before being sold and partof it can be wasted. The consumers have to beeducated, and learn to eat more locally, hence thecreation of a network to link consumers toproducers. The farmers can be given advices (tochoose the crop and how to cultivate them), as wellas the consumers (about eating locally andseasonal products).


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SDG 11 Sustainable Communities: ComClean

Objective: Clean the air in cities encouragingpeople to plant trees. Many improvements have tobe done to allow better life conditions in alwaysgrowing cities. We decided to focus on the airpollution issue, which affect citizens in their dailylife. Vegetation being a good way to reduce airpollution, we focused on how to put more greens incities to help cleaning the air.

The project would be held in countries / citieswhere IAAS comities are located. It would be donethrough social networks, to reach a maximum ofpersons. The project could be held a specific daywhere everyone would plant trees together, andwe’d ask people to plant trees in parks or theirsgardens within the city, or nearby the city. Theconsequences would be a cleaner air and a greenercity, both improving the life conditions of citizens.A side project would be giving advices on how toreduce air pollution will easy things to do, such asreduce the temperature of the air conditioner.

SDG 4 Quality Education: EduQuat

Objective: Contribute to girl emancipation,increase girl participation in schools, and teach toparents the importance of girls’ education.Education is an issue especially in rural areas, andgirls often have a worse access to education inthose areas.

This education could be provided throughvoluntarily organized summer schools, withtrainings about basic knowledge of agriculture. Wecould also inform parents to use new technologiesin agriculture, which allow needing fewerworkforces. To explain the importance of girlsgoing to school to parents, examples of successfulwomen stories can be used.


SDG 13 Climate Action: Climaculture

Objective: adapt agriculture to climate changethrough advices to farmers. Climate changes affectthe world and agricultural systems, so we have toraise people awareness about climate change andhow to put solutions into practice in agriculturalsystems.

The methods would be various, such as plantingtrees around the world, restore lands, make peopleaware about climate change, and collect successstories from farmers to encourage others.

3rd General AssemblyIAAS Activities ReportJuly 15th, 2019

Exchange Program Explanation

In this session we were talking and discussingabout the Exchange Program activity in IAAS. Thetopic are mainly to discuss about on how to makethe Exchange Program system more efficient interms of promotional activities and discussionabout the flows of Exchange Program in overall.

Study Abroad Program

The session continued with the discussion aboutStudy Abroad Program. This program is one ofIAAS program which to engages and motivatesstudents and members of IAAS from all over theworld to study in the faculties and universities; TheVP External Relations 2018/2019 SadatAmankona (IAAS Ghana) explain everything aboutthe Study Abroad Program in IAAS.

The Study Abroad Program is here to bridge theinformation between universities and the studentsand is as much as we promote the universities, weencourage our members to chance on theopportunity and apply for admission.

ICYA (International Conference for Youth inAgriculture)

The session continued with the session aboutICYA. Established in 2017 as an annual programfor IAAS members with the focus of solvingproblems in relation with the SDG goals. It is alsostipulated in the constitution. ICYA is a shortscience oriented event covering SDGPresentations, Lectures, Keynote Speakers andDebate. ICYA to be held annually, the EB and thehosting country are responsible for theorganization.


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IAAS Training Committee

IAAS training Committee provides training onprojects such as how to make a fund raising or howto organize events. Till Zimmer(Switzerland) is thehead of ITC and they form people to learn non-formally soft skills, with 13 trainers, 12 juniortrainers and 6 alumni. ITC empowers IAASers toearn skills they might not earn with their universitycurriculum, acquiring skills and knowledge youruniversities don’t provide in schools.

Organizing Committees for World Congress2020 and Exchange Coordinator Meeting2020.

Discussion continued with the discussion aboutthe next organizing committee for WOCO 2020and EXCO Meeting 2020. IAAS Portugal applyingfor WOCO 2020. The country has many localcommittees for such a small country. The lastWorld Congress they organized was 19 years ago.They have experience in organizing events, andsuccessful exchange week in 2019.

Next host candidate is for EXCO Meeting 2020where IAAS Chile presenting their application tobe the next host for EXCO Meeting 2020. Chile hasa diverse climate and geography in this country,native + Spanish influenced culture Agriculturediversity thanks to the climate, Exco Meeting willbe organized in Santiago & Valparaiso. Plannedagenda, GA and visits, some pictures of cities wewould visit.

Another candidate also coming from IAASGuatemala for EXCO Meeting 2020. Guatemala isa volcanic country’s with very diverse culture andagriculture which is the main economic activity,has many innovations for this domain, and hasmany projects on environment sustainability thatconnected with SDG 13.

EB/CB 18.19 ReportElection for EB/CB 19.20

The last session is about the Executive Board andControl Board of IAAS World 18.19 Report. Alsowith the election for the new Executive Board andControl Board of 19.20. The new EB/CB for 19.20are a bellow.

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Our 2019/2020 ActivitiesFrom our members


IAAS PSTU Research Methodology TrainingBy IAAS Bangladesh

To assist the undergraduate and post-graduatestudents of PSTU in research work, IAASBangladesh PSTU take a great initiative to providetraining on Research Methodology. Objective ofthis training is to provide essential knowledge onResearch Methodology. Research Methodologyrefers to a set of systematic method necessary forconducting an empirical research. Knowing thesteps of writing a research-based manuscript andknowing the steps of conducting a research aredifferent. In order to make a research morecredible and reliable a researcher must know thecomplete methodology of conducting an empiricaland systematic research. This training is suitablefor any discipline students of PSTU. This training is1.5 months long. Professor Dr Mamun Ur Rasid isconducting the training and teaching the way to bea good researcher.

IAAS Louvain-la-NeuveOpen Meeting and Team BuildingBy IAAS Belgium

At September 23rd, 2019 IAAS LLN has held openmeeting with old members of IAAS LLN. They gavea global presentation about IAAS, while some oldmembers from LLN also talked about theirexperiences and free french fries for everyone!The old members were super excited to come andwere happy to give lots of details about theiradventures with IAAS. They clearly motivated abunch of people.

IAAS Louvain-la-Neuve Team Building

On September 30th, 2019, IAAS LLN just finishedtheir Team Building and First Meeting of their newterm. Paricipated by 15 members with severalactivities alongside with their meeting. At the fristthey played some name-games to get to knoweveryone, then brainstormed about theinternational weekend that they’ll be organisingand about the other events they want to organisethis semester. Afterwards they went bowling withthe whole team.


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Vintage of Isla del MaipoBy IAAS Chile

In this review, we will show all IAAS Chile’sactivities during the year. We have beenmotivated and working hard with our NationalCommittee and actives members.We had the opportunity to receive Diogo Rita(IAAS Portugal) and Raquel Jimenez (IAAS Spain),IAAS members who participated actively indifferent events. ExCo Chile 2020 it’s coming,there is a lot of team work to do. Here we canshow some of our meetings, always lookingforward for the best for our future participants.

We participate in an event of vintage, we showedto the IAAS members from Portugal and Spainabout the wine from Chile.

Vintage Fest in SantiagoApril 14th, 2019 - Chile

Different vineyards participated in this fest, inSantiago, from all Chilean Valleys producers ofwine. We had the opportunity to participate byhaving a degustation from different types of wineand wineries. We make this visit helpful forexchange of knowledge and culture for our IAASPresident Diogo Rita from IAAS Portugal.

Meeting with FIAAugust 27th, 2019 - Chile

We had a strategy meeting with a governmentinstitution, to show the program of ExCo Meeting2020 and looking forward for a partnership forthe event.

‘FIA’ (Foundation forAgricultural Innovation)August 28th, 2019 - Chile

The main purpose of this activity was to carry outa ‘focus group’, where an instance of informationexchange, share entrepreneurial experiences,meet companies with a loan of services related toprocessed food area. Active and nationalcommittee’s members participated.


EXPRO Switzerland by Andrea Calderón By IAAS EcuadorA IAAS member of Ecuador was experienced herExchange Program to Farm Neuhaus Thoringen,Switzerland. With several activities that she’d suchlike picking fruits or vegetables, cultive the crops,vegetables and trees, keep, clean and fill up theself service farm shop, selling products on a smallmarket, different jobs around the house.

EXPRO Switzerland by Juan Fransisco MoralesJuly 22nd, 2019 – September 29th, 2019

Another member of IAAS Ecuador also did hisExchange Program to Farm StammheimerHopgentrof, Switzerland. With the main job tobe the assistance in seasonal work on the farmwith vines, hops, and agrotourism.

World Clean Up Day EcuadorSeptember 21st, 2019 (Quito, Ecuador)

World Cleaning Day is a global program aimed atcombating the global problem of solid waste,including the problem of marine waste. The eventhas been held in Las Cuadas Park, Quito, with 12participants joined this activity.


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SOCIAAS (VCP)By IAAS GuatemalaAugust 2nd, 2019 (Jalapa Mountain, Guatemala)

On August 2 we had a reforestation in the waterrecharge area of Jalapa Mountain, where weplanted more than 200 trees

MONUGUA: The United Nations Model for GuatemalaSeptember 20th – 21st, 2019 (Guatemala)

The United Nations model for Guatemala -MONUGUA- was held in the city of old Guatemalafrom September 20 to 21, the guys of IAASGuatemala achieved an outstanding performanceas part of the United Nations EnvironmentProgram Committee UNEP where topics focusedon achieving the Sustainable Development GoalsSDG 12 and 13 were addressed, are: Productionand Responsible Consumption and Climate Action


Handover CeremonyBy IAAS MoroccoSeptember 23rd, 2019 (Rabat, Morocco)

The Handover Ceremony was held for the newelected of National Committee of IAAS Moroccowith our VPE Omar Farhate and CB Hajar Hayboutalso conducting the Handover Ceremony.

Exchange Program by Mouad, IAV Rabat Versteynen Farm, Belgium

Khadija & Oumayma, ENA MeknesSinjorina Smokva Eko, Croatia


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New Members Recruitment of IAAS Nepal AFU-LCBy IAAS NepalAugust 24th, 2019 (Nepal)

On 24th August 2019, an orientation program tothe 32 newly selected members of IAAS NepalAFU-LC was held with a short introduction andinteraction session with them. The members werewelcomed with a welcome speech by SangamGhimire (VP of Finance), presentation speech onpast activities of IAAS by Sobita Subedi, challengesin IAAS by Bhawana Regmi (VP of externalrelation) and a motivational speech on“Leadership” by Soniya Bashyal.

National Rice DayJune 30th , 2019 (Nepal)LC CNRM Puranchaur

On the auspicious occasion of National Rice Dayon Ashad 15 (June 30), our local committeeorganized an interaction programme with thefarmers in the rice field. The farmers were helpedtransplanting rice in the field. Singing and dancingon the field with the farmers, interacting about theimportance of National Rice Day in this localitywith them, providing Dahi-Chiura were the majoractivities of the event. Another major activity ofthis local committee was Organizing a workshopon Non-Violent Communication. The session wasconducted by Mr. Shree Ram Timilsina on 11th ofAugust. The session was so helpful to all thestudents. The workshop included angermanagement and situation dealing sessions.

Debate Competition by IAAS LC HICASTAugust 9th , 2019 (Nepal)

On August 9, 2019, IAAS LC HICAST organizeddebate competition on the topic 'Suitability ofHydroponics as an alternative to conventional landfarming practice of Nepal'. Hydroponics refers to amethod of growing plants without soil by usingmineral nutrient solutions in water solventwhereas conventional farming system refers togrowing plants on land.


Plant Health Clinic with IDE NepalAugust 25th , 2019 (Nepal)

IAAS LC HICAST organized Plant health clinic oncollaboration with IDE Nepal at Mahangkal villageof Lele, Lalitpur on 25th of August, 2019 with anobjective to engage students into field based workswhere they can practically implement theirlearning and to get familiar to the major diseasesand pests in the village. Plant clinic is a diagnosticservice that aims to impart regular and reliabletechnical supports and advises to the farmerscovering all plants and types of problems.

Farm ExchangeAugust 13th , 2019 (Nepal)

IAAS Nepal LC Lamjung is giving continuity toexchange program at `Ghimire Ekikrit Farm´,Lamjung. Our members revisited the farm. Wetransplanted the 21 days old seedlings of hybridvarieties of cauliflower and cabbage. Wetransplanted the seedlings in ridge and furrowmethod. We are hoping for the best results.

IAAS Collective Campaign for Rabies Awareness and VaccinationSeptember 22nd – 28th , 2019 (Nepal)

IAAS Nepal LC Paklihawa, in collaboration withVeterinary Teaching Hospital and other 7organisations of Institute Of Agriculture AndAnimal Sciences (IAAS) organised “IAAS collectivecampaign for rabies awareness and vaccination”.This was a week long event where we performed aseries of programs based on the theme of rabiesawareness.


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IAAS Belgrade Alumni MeetingBy IAAS SerbiaJune-September, 2019 (Belgrade, Serbia)

IAAS Belgrade in period from June until now hadtheir own activity with IAAS Alumni members. Inthis meeting they having such like planning fornext event, especially in preparation for ICYA2020 which IAAS Serbia is officially choosen asthe host for the next ICYA>

Welcome Activity for New StudentsBy IAAS Switzerland

We had an open meeting with cake, and weintroduced IAAS Switzerland and our activities.We showed them the events from last year andpromoted the upcoming events. Nearly 30 newstudents signed up to our newsletter after thismeeting.

Expro DayWe had a day out with the Exchange Programstudents, and we visited Lucerne with them. Thiswas a good opportunity to get feedback from theexchange students and to get to know thembetter.


IAAS Southern Europe Sub-Regional MeetingBy IAAS GreeceOctober 1st – 6th , 2019 (Thessaloniki, Greece)

The South Subregional meeting 2019 wasorganised by IAAS Greece, L.C of Thessaloniki, andtook place in two beautiful places, Thessalonikiand Chalkidiki from the 1st until the 6th ofOctober. With many world cafés, presentationsand workshops, this amazing event broughttogether 20 motivated IAASers from 7 differentcountries! In the meantime, two soft skills trainingsabout team work and communication with culturaldifferences as well as a visit to a honey producerusing traditional methods, contributed in exchangeof agricultural knowledge and experience as longas lifetime friendships!

The Northern Subregional Meeting 2019 wasorganised by IAAS Sweden in Uppsala from 16th -19th October. At the first day everyone visiting theTempel Brewery for the beer making process asthe first excursion activity. At the same day theydid brainstorming session regarding about NoFood Waste and Plastic Waste until the secondday of meeting. Two trainers from ITC alsoaccompanying us from Slovenia and Croatia totaught us about stress management before we didDevelopment Fund at then night. Viking Tour wasthe amazing part that IAAS Sweden present for theparticipants as well as exploring Stockholm andended with Viking Dinner by the member of IAASSweden.

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International WeekendBy IAAS BelgiumOctober 25th - 27th, 2019 (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

On the 25th, 26th and 27th of October, IAASLouvain-la-Neuve organised an internationalweekend as the first event they would be hostingthis year. Students from France, the Netherlands,Flanders, Germany and even China were invited tojoin the team and share this wonderful experience.

As to stay true to the very spirit of IAAS(exchanging, sharing and discovering), the teamdecided to have a Trade Fair on the first evening,on Friday. On Saturday morning, all members wereto go to the Bois de Lauzelle, a forest close to theuniversity campus, and play a game involvingnature and biology. Then came Sunday morning: adreadful, feared moment for all to realise theweekend would soon be over. However, beforeanyone was to say goodbye, the team in Louvain-la-Neuve organised a workshop to make soap in anatural way devoid of waste and pollution.

In conclusion, this first event of the year forIAAS Louvain-la-Neuve was an absolute success.We got very positive reviews for everyone, and thenew members seem to have had lots of fun. Theatmosphere felt immediately pleasant and friendly,even though most people didn’t really know eachother. There wasn’t an ounce of awkwardness aseveryone came open-minded and willing to makethe most of this weekend. It was overall a greatexperience which everyone will keep greatmemories of.

Pancake Action in IAAS LeuvenOctober 9th , 2019 (Leuven, Belgium)

On the 9th of October, IAAS Leuven organised aPancake Action! A whole day long our team wasknee high in pancake batter and busy flippingpancakes over. Despite the rain that day ourpancakes were very popular! Sure enough, sincethey were made with a lot of familIAAS love.


Belgium 101 October 17th , 2019 (Ghent, Belgium)

On the 17th of November we organised Belgium101, to teach the international students all aboutbeing Belgian (so mainly food and beers).

This was a cultural event organised byIAAS to welcome the Korean students to Belgium.The event began with a warm welcome and shortintroduction about IAAS before starting theactivities. We organised 5 interactive and funworkshops to introduce the Korean students toBelgian history, culture and life-style, Wafflebaking, Beer tasting. Belgian food, divided into twosections: warm dishes and desserts. There wasstoofvlees, a Belgian beef stew made with beer andlove. Vol au vent, which is made from chicken,meatballs and mushrooms in a delicious creamysauce, served with a traditional puff pastry shell.Lastly, they enjoyed another classical Belgian dishof chicory vegetable wrapped in ham and toppedwith cheese sauce.

The event ended with cheerful and happyfaces. Everyone had loads of fun and learned manynew things about Belgian culture while makingnew friends. From the IAAS team, we look forwardto welcoming many more new students, bothinternational and local, to our lovely family.

Local Collective Action: Plant a Tree!By IAAS CroatiaOctober, 2019 (Zagreb-Slieme, Croatia)

Colorful as it is, October in Croatia was pretty“green”. Our members participated in a Localaction for making our planet greener. First, theywent on a workshop where they learned “how to”and afterwards they used their knowledge! Theaction was organized by our colleagues fromFaculty of Forestry and it took place at the nearbymountain peak Sljeme. Except for planting trees,Croatian team did a clean up of our place andrecycled what was to recycle.


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Exchange Week in CroatiaBy IAAS CroatiaOctober 7th - 13th , 2019 (Varaždin, Croatia)

Exchange Week in Croatia held place in the city ofVaraždin. *Fun fact: Varaždin used to be the capitalcity of Croatia until a huge fire burnt the city in1776. The event lasted for 7 days. Our guests werecolleagues from Sardinia, Serbia, Poland andGreece. We gathered in Zagreb on 7th and got backthere on 13th October. During the event we visitedour big food industry companies such as Vindija andPodravka, but also, we tried to show ourparticipants our local producers such as Pulferbrewery and Buzdovan ciders, Women’sAssociation “Trnovečko srce”, Horvatinčić familyfarm and many more. Good news is that in futureIAAS Croatia might expand our work and Zagrebwill not be our only local committee! Stay tunedand look in the North direction!

As very year the members of the associationinterested in agricultural practices carry out anexperimental garden. This year, due to the wintervegetable garden, legumes will be cultivated toimplement the green manure technique and thusimprove soil fertility for the future summer garden.

Some members interested in Hemp cultureorganized a visit in a farm that concern abouthemp. A freelancer counselor in agriculture showmachine to gather biomass, how they stock theproducts and how does it work the productionchain.

Hemp Farm Visit October 21st , 2019 (Napoli, Italy)

Garden LabBy IAAS ItalyOctober 15th , 2019 (Napoli, Italy)


Hallowiaan, The First IAAS Thursday Beer of The Autumn SemesterBy IAAS SwitzerlandOctober 31st , 2019 (Zürich, Switzerland)

At our university the ETH Zürich the studentassociation of the agriculture and food sciencedepartment (VIAL) organizes a Thursday Beerevery week of the semester. IAAS Switzerland ispart of VIAL and we take our turns of organizingthese Thursdays. We regularly break the record ofbest visited Thursday Beer of the Semester withmost sold beers. Our first Beer Night this semesterhad the Motto Halloween and all the IAASersdressed up. Once again, we had a very successfulnight. It is also tradition to try and organize one ofthese beer nights when we know we will haveIAASers visiting and we had the honour to host theNational Director of Belgium Celine during thatperiod and she got to witness Hallowiaan as well.

6th Edition SymposiumBy IAAS PortugalOctober 11th – 12th , 2019 (Vila Real, Portugal)

On 11th and 12th of October, the 6th edition ofthe Exotic Symposium was organized by IAASUTAD. There were 14 national and internationalspeakers and 150 participants. The event wasdivided into 4 sessions, on the first day.

The Engineer Tomás Martins had begunthat talking about “Conservation of Wild Fauna”.The second session of the day, “Wild ManInteraction”, featured Eng. Hyan Silva. The thirdsession of the day, had as chairman Dr. Luís Sousa,was designated “Bird Breeding” and had 3presentations: “Reproduction and Creation by thehand of Calaus”; “Problems associated with thereproductive management of Psittaciformes” and“Reproduction of Parrots - the breeder'sexperience”. The last session was designated“Aquatic Ecosstems” and has been divided into:“Captive Coral Fragmentation”; “Management andContainment of Marine Mammals” and “AnimalWelfare in Aquariums”.

Dr. Rui Patrício's presentation on“Analgesia in Reptiles” opened the second day withthe theme “Preventive Medicine in Reptiles”. Atthe end and to close the 6th edition of the ExoticSymposium, Dr. Vanda Marnoto returned to thestage, with the theme “Welfare and behavior ofsmall mammals as new companion animals”.


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Youth AgricaretureBy IAAS IndonesiaOctober 19th – 26th , 2019 (Indonesia)

Youth Agricareture is a social project that aims toencourage young people to come back to careabout the world of agriculture. Youth Agricareturewas held on October 19-26, 2019 which was heldin 8 local committees throughout Indonesia,namely UNDIP, UNS, UNS, ULM, UNRAM,UNPAD, UB, and IPB with the theme of ZeroWaste. This activity consists of 3 series of eventsnamely Goes to School, Social Campaign, and Goesto VCP.

Some schools in Goes to School activitiesare Al-Azhar 14 Semarang High School (UNDIP),Adisanggoro Vocational School (IPB), MAN 1Mataram (UNRAM), SMA N 4 Bandung (UNPAD),SMA 2 BJB (ULM), MAN 1 (UB) ), SMK 4Yogyakarta (UGM), and several high schools in thecity of Surakarta (UNS). Goes to VCP were held inKulwaru Village (UGM), Taji Village (UB), UlinVillage (ULM), Cinanjung Village (UNPAD),Bengkaung Village (UNRAM), Kemuning Village(UNS), Tapos Village (IPB) and Kelir Village(UNDIP).

IAAS Goes to Office BuildingOctober 29th, 2019 (Jakarta, Indonesia)

On October 29th 2019, IAAS LC Unpad held avisit to Netherland Embassy in Setiabudi, SouthJakarta and Kebun Kumara in East Ciputat, SouthTangerang City which invited about 50participants.The first destination is Netherland Embassy.Embassy staff held a presentation about culture,education, scholarship and student exchange inNetherland. After that, the participants areallowed to ask everything about Netherland onQ&A session. Netherland Embassy visit wasclosed with a photo session with embassy staffand the participants.The second destination is Kebun Kumara. AtKebun Kumara we got new insight about how tobranding, stabilizing, and networking. We also didEcobrick Workshop and practice how to makeecobrick. After that we had mini tour aroundKebun Kumara’s field. Our visit in Kebun Kumarawas closed with a photo session with KebunKumara’s staff and the participants.



IAAS Goes to BPTPOctober 31st, 2019 (Banjarbaru, Indonesia)

BPTP Visit is a visit to one of the hosting placesheld by the STD department in collaboration withExpro. This visit was more precisely in the BPTPgarden commonly called IPPTP (agriculturalresearch and assessment technology installation).BPTP Visit was held on Thursday, 31 October 2019at IPPTP. This training can be attended bymembers of IAAS LC ULM. This activity is held inthe afternoon, starting with an explanation by Mr.Agus about BPTP and what is on BPTP. Thenproceed with a tour around IPPTP accompanied byKa Jabal while explaining each slot visited.

2nd Anniversary of IAAS BangladeshBy IAAS BangladeshOctober 14th , 2019 (Khulna, Bangladesh)

IAAS Bangladesh has celebrated 2nd anniversaryon 14th October at its headquarter Khulna. Therelot of students, former national director, fresher’sand adviser were present in the celebration. Thecelebration starts with cutting a big cake. Afterthat new committer were welcomed by formercommittee. The advisor gave some deliberatespeech on prospectus of IAAS Bangladesh and itsfuture goal.

Road to AbroadOctober 26th , 2019 (Patuakhali, Bangladesh)

For better study opportunities and researchfacilities, students dream to study in reputedUniversities in the world. To give a boost to theirdream different prestigious scholarship holders ofPSTU shared their experiences and process to getscholarships and funds from studying abroad. Our5 mentors run the session and 250 participantshad been the beneficiaries of the program.

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Training on Research MethodologyOctober 19th , 2019 (Patuakhali, Bangladesh)

To assist the undergraduate and post-graduatestudents of PSTU in research work, IAASBangladesh PSTU takes a great initiative toprovide training on Research Methodology. Theobjective of this training is to provide essentialknowledge of Research Methodology.Research Methodology refers to a set ofsystematic methods necessary for conductingempirical research. Knowing the steps of writing aresearch-based manuscript and knowing the stepsof conducting research are different. In order tomake research more credible and reliable, aresearcher must know the complete methodologyof conducting empirical and systematic research.This training is suitable for any discipline studentsof PSTU. This training is 1.5 months long. ProfessorDr. Mamun Ur Rasid is conducting the training andteaching the way to be a good researcher.

International Association of Students inAgricultural and Related Sciences (IAAS) is alwaysmotivated to do more and be more. Seeking on thetheme ‘Learning by Doing’ IAAS Nepal AFU LC hasaimed to engage all the enthusiastic agriculturalstudents within a field. In order to acknowledgethe related students with experimental learningand agricultural experience this organization hadcommenced the Marigold Cultivation practicebased on production since Ashadh 26 (July 11).From Marigold Cultivation, we actually came toknow the efforts and dedication a farmer gives togrow his crops. We acquired the knowledge onpractices to be performed in the marigold field.Not only that, we come to know a lot aboutmarketing the product and marketing channels.This has certainly helped us to build up ourentrepreneurship skills.

On Going Marigold CultivationBy IAAS NepalOctober, 2019 (Nepal)



IAAS La Salle Bajío ExcursionBy IAAS MexicoOctober 21st , 2019 (León Guanajuato, Mexico)

After our national congress in April with differentUniversities, we got to open a new local committeeat the University of La Salle Bajío were Jiram Tovarand Luis Gerardo Ojeda started to motivate thestudents and their director to create a localcommittee. They started with a lot of doubts aboutIAAS, but on their way of introducing theorganization to their school members, theymotivated them to create IAAS La Salle Bajío with alot of members.Their first official activity as an official board was avisit to a seeder’s factory were, they got to see thedesigning engineering and production of thedifferent implements. Their second visit that daywas to an intensive bovine meat productionmodule, afterwards they went to a demonstrativeplot of conservational agriculture and finally endedthe day with the visit to the protected area of LasMusas. They had lunch and got enough time to getto know each other.

IAAS Mexico celebrating The International Day of Rural WomenOctober 15th , 2019 (Texcoco, Mexico)

Reminding our members about the importance ofwomen in agriculture, we posted on our socialmedia and whats app groups some imagescelebrating this date. “Starting with the activitiesof the new National Board. The United Nations’(UN) International Day of Rural Women celebratesand honors the role of rural women on October 15each year. It recognizes rural women’s importancein enhancing agricultural and rural developmentworldwide.”

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Village Concept Project initiative called #MA3ANBy IAAS Morocco (Morocco)

IAAS Morocco launches its first Village ConceptProject initiative called #MA3AN which means inArabic "Together". The first edition is going to takeplace in the rural area of Oulmes region in theMoroccan Atlas Mountains from 16th to 18th ofNovember 2019 and it's in collaboration withanother NGO called "Lueur d'espoir" . Manyactivities will take place and mainly target thechildren of the village. In October, we startedcollecting funds, clothes, school supplies by makingvideo projections and targeting partners. We aregoing to teach students a lot of values that aremainly related to SDGs, and we will also help themfinancially. We are so thankful to our sponsors “LesEaux Minérales D’Oulmes” and “Association AlWiam pour le Développement Social” for their bigcontribution in this Village Concept Project.

Gallery of MA3AN



Opening CeremonyOctober 9th , 2019 (Rabat, Morocco)

In October 2019, we organized our annualOpening ceremony. The main goals of this annualevent is to gather the members of the associationto share knowledge and friendship. During theopening ceremony we introduced the associationto all the interested students by clearing up ourobjectives, our history and the opportunities thatmight be presented to members with exemples ofold members who went to internships asmotivation to recruit incomers

Agroschooling in Over 6 Secondary SchoolsBy IAAS NigeriaOctober 10th – 17th , 2019 (Osun State)

We embarked on a mission to change the negativeperception of Nigeria youth about agriculturethrough one of our local chapter. This project havestarted since about three (3) years now, and we arestill going to do more on agro schooling until weare satisfied about the motive our youth havetowards agriculture as a dirty work.

Agri Tour ProgramOctober 26th , 2019 (Ogun State, Nigeria)

It was a day program and the visit to the Park wasthe largest Organic Agricultural Firm in Africathat our members had ever visited before. Wewere 30 in numbers that attend the program.Agro Park Development Company Limited isprimarily a farm management company involvedin the end to end of agricultural value chain. Thefirm fully manages over 1,500 hectares offarmland for individuals, corporate andinstitutional investors. They cultivate spices,staple crops and cash crops. Their livestocksection includes poultry, fishery, piggery andrabbit farm.

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9th ICA Rectors and Deans Forum 2019 Collaboration between European & African Life Science Universities for a Sustainable Future

October 24th – 25th , 2019 (Beauvais, France)

Reported by Lena Garino

The 24 and 25 of October, I have represented IAASWorld at the ICA Forum in UniLasalle in Beauvais.The organization was held by the last year studentsof Beauvais. They are really sympathetic, and Iexplained them a little what was IAAS. Manydirectors of European and African universities werepresent at the forum. The subject was thecooperation between European and Africanuniversities for research and education. The goalwas to identify the mutual benefits that can emergefrom a cooperation between Europe and Africa andhow to achieve it through projects. In this report, Iwill resume the program of Thursday and Fridayand focus on the points that I found interesting.Then, I will write some thought that I had duringthis event.

Introduction to the forum

The forum will put the steps to achieve theobjectives of the Agenda 2030. To do this, thepartnerships between Europe and Africa will facechallenge and will have to grab opportunities.There is not a unique answer to these issues, buteach continent can bring its own perspective andknowledge.

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Africa and Europe cooperation in building a sustainable African agri-food sector, Tom Arnold, EU commission task force for rural Africa

There has been an increase of the relationsbetween Europe and Africa. For example, theAfrican Union commission and the EuropeanUnion commission meet every year.

Africa is a continent which will face manychanges over the next decades. Indeed, it’s adiverse continent divided in 3 main regions: NorthAfrica, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa. Itspopulation has doubled over the past 30 years andis projected to double again by 2050. It will facechallenges concerning nutrition, education andhealth. To achieve it, four long termrecommendations has been made during the 3rdAfrican-EU agricultural ministerial meeting inJune 2019:• To adopt a territorial approach in planning for

income and job creation• Sustainable land and natural resource

management and climate action• Development of the African food industry and

food markets at 3 levels: people to people,business to business, government togovernment

It is important to define the future politicalrelationship between Africa and Europe. As theCotonou agreement end up in 2020.

Overview of challenges facing African agriculture and life science universities towards 2030: Perspectives from South/Southern African region, Daniel Brink Stellenbosch university South Africa

The goals of African universities for 2030:

• Respond to a demand for affordable,accessible and good quality education

• Increase the focus on science, technology,engineering and agriculture

• Increase the flexibility and transform the wayof teaching

• Change the nature of funding models

The challenge and objectives of the Africanuniversities:• High cost of education: reduced government

funding => Diversification of the fundingmodel

• Competition/globalisation: importance ofinternational network => Internationalpartnership

• Multiple stakeholders: divergence ofstakeholder interest (private funding) =>Public/private partnership

• Complexity of research and innovation agenda=> balanced research and innovation agenda



Overview of the challenges facing European agricultural and life science universities, and do they see their development to 2030, Alex Evans university college of DublinThe challenge of the universities:

• The issues are more and moremultidisciplinary: there is more and more tolearn

• Hire the best people to do the best research“war for talent”

• Have the best facilities and equipment• Funding model are changingThe global challenge in agriculture:• Climate change diseases• Anti-microbial resistance• Growing population: 9.8 million people by

2050The challenge the emerge from these two areas:• Be more international but travel less• Be more collaborative but more business like• Be more elitist (to have the best people) but

more inclusive

Midday break and visit of the experimental farm of the campus

During the midday break, we had the occasion tovisit the experimental farm of UniLasalle, see somerobot prototype build by the students and 3Dprinting machines.

Agrinatura: European and African life science universities – Structures and aims of partnerships

European and African universities have similargoals and problems:• Attract the brightest students to

science/agriculture• Integrate cutting-edge research with education

The goal of the Agrinatura network is togenerate knowledge. They consider thatunderstanding different contexts makes betterproblem solvers. 35 universities and researchorganizations from 16 European countries belongto Agrinatura and all of them have many partners.

VCA4D (Value Chain Analysis forDevelopment) is a program created by theEuropean Union where 4 persons from differentcountries will work together to solve a problem.

A vision for EU engagement with Africa in agricultural research, Marc Duponcel, EU Commission, Brussels

LEA4P: Basis for a common research agendabetween European and African life scienceuniversities:• Sustainable intensification• Agriculture and food systems for nutrition• Expansion and improvement of agricultural

markets and trade• Common research and innovation areaThe goal of the Horizon 2020 program was toboost EU-Africa research and innovationpartnerships on food and nutrition security andsustainable agriculture. For example, on theissues of sustainable intensification pathways ofagro-food systems in Africa and diversification ofrevenue in rural Africa through bio-basedsolution. After this session, there was anintervention from the French agriculturalministry which underlined that cooperation withAfrica is important for France.

Figure 1 The world population by 2050 Figure 2 Scientific papers published in 2016

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LEAP4FNSSA: Towards a Europe Africa research and innovation (R&I) platform for joint action in science, technology and innovation on food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture (FNSSA), Philippe Petithuguenin, CIRAD, France

In a partnership, there must be funding andpositive impacts on both sizes. It is hard to achieveas there are huge differences between socio-economy of Europe and Africa. There are also hugedifferences between African countries. Thepartnerships of this program begun betweenEurope and Maghreb + Egypt but now they want toextend it to West Africa. To achieve it, they neednew founding instruments such as private actorsbut work together is difficult.

The FNSSA roadmap includes a cross-cutting priority on R&I capacity strengthening. Theproposed platform will be opened to all Europeanand African universities willing to align theiractivities to the FNSSA roadmap and to increasetheir collaboration (between continents andbetween institutions).

Building a sustainable model for doctoral training, research and innovation capacity in Sub Saharan Africa: the PASET RSIF, Julius Ecuru, International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kenya

The goal of ICIPE and their BioInnovateAfrica program is that by 2063 Africa beprosperous, peaceful and contributing to theglobal development in a sustainable way. ThePASET RSIF initiative is a PhD scholar studentproject. For the first year, 15 students wereselected from 1030. For the second year they were50. The idea is that the student begins its PhD in itsAfrican host university, then go to an internationalpartner institution and finally come back to theAfrican host university to achieve its thesis.

Visitation to Beauvais Cathedral



Austrian – African university network: engagement for mutual benefit for a sustainable future, Hubert Hasenauer, university of natural resources and life sciences, Vienna (BOKU)

Example 1: Land use change and its consequencesfor sustainable development in the Amhararegion, Ethiopia

Decrease from 40% to 10% of the forest inEthiopia due to:• The growing population which depends on

forest• Land use change for agricultureRemoving forest erodes the two topsoil layerwhich contains about 40% of the C and N pools.Potential reforestation area: 3.4 million hasuitableCarbon storage if everything is replanted:• 177 Tg of C in total• 11 Tg in the soil• 166 Tg in the above ground

Example 2: Sustainable management of water andfish resources in Burkina Faso

Fish species decrease with the human pressure.There is a high traditional knowledge about waterand fishes but little scientific knowledge on waterecology and human impacts.The BOKU university also do professor andstudent exchanges, promote joint projects,network and organize conferences.

Future EU-African collaboration: What will it take? Achille Assogbadjo, university of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou

Africa today:• GDP grow at rates faster than global since

2015• The population is getting younger• It is increasingly urbanising

Universities in Africa today:• On 30 000 graduated students, 1000 will find a

job• There had been many collaborations between

Europe and Africa but there are still problems• Low scientific activity and mostly concentrated

in South Africa

Solutions:• To focus on STEAM: Science, Technology,

Engineering, Agriculture, Mathematics• To do professional internship programs: after a

professional internship 50% of the students geta job where they were working

• Invest in laboratories, start up, do jointpublications: they take the example of SouthKorea whose GDP was less than Soudan in1961 and more than 20 times superior in 1995because they invest in new technologies

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Unlocking the hidden potential of Sub-Saharan universities, Pascal Boeckx, Ghent university, Belgium

Constraints for agriculture in Africa:• Soil and climatic constraint: drought and

warming, poor mechanisation, nutrientdeficiency

• Economical constraint, for example Nigeria hasa weak business potential but a high agronomicpotential

• Not enough agricultural research intensity: theattainable investment targets are not reached,the current spending on the continent is 2.5billion dollars with 1.4 from Nigeria and SouthAfrica and the growth of 0.8 billion between2000 and 2014 was mainly for salaries

• Aging farmers: 60% in Ghana and 40% inEthiopia of the farmers are above 50 years old

Opportunities:• Public-private cooperation fore economic,

social and environmentally sustainablecommercial crops (cocoa, coffee) but alsostaple crops (wheat, cassava, maize)

• Improve rural innovation capacity, rehabilitateand maintain infrastructures, create networks

• Twinning sandwich PhD: low investment (150000 euros) / high gain

Changing minds and promoting the social-biophysical interface-rethinking South-North academic cooperation, Luis Artur, Eduardo Mondlane university, Mozambique

Agriculture in Africa:• Low inputs: 5% of farms use certified seeds

used, 2.5% use pesticides, 3.75% use fertilizersand 2% have mechanization

• Deforestation is a big problem with 155 000 hadeforested per year within 65% due toagriculture

Good news:• Africa has by far the strongest growing

scientific production• Astonishing growth of authors (48%)• More PhD chose to stay in Africa• More money is going to research

Possible cooperation themes:• Gender, climate change and agriculture• Transition from low inputs to high-tech: long

term environment and climate changeimplication

• Global farming mobility and governance inAfrica

• Global farming mobility and invasive pests anddiseases

• Agri-food chains and African food security



Future opportunities for bi-directional learning in Europe-Africa university collaboration, Ken Giller, Wageningen university and research, Netherland

National food security requires an abundantsupply of cheap and nutritive food for theburgeoning urban populationAgriculture is a major contributor to the balance ofpayments for African economies.

Development programs:• Interdisciplinary trainings (on-site courses)• Competence and skills training for PhD

candidates and staff• Massive open online courses• E-conference: carbon free and inclusive

Mutuality in collaboration requires mutuality ofopportunities Challenges:• The “Digital-divide”• The downside of open access: predatory

journals• Who decides the agenda for research and

policy?

The next ICA Forum will be held Online due toCovid-19 in October,

IAAS is appreciative of the collaboration with ICAthat has been going on for several years and welook forward to continuing this collaboration.

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EB Strategic MeetingOctober 7th – 12th , 2019 (Leuven, Belgium)

EB Strategic Meeting for EB IAAS World2019/2020 last from October 7th – 12th , 2019 inour beloved Headquarters of IAAS in KU Leuven,Belgium. We’ve been discussing many things inthis strategic meeting and build our visions toachieving a better IAAS for the future and for thesociety.Many thanks for IAAS Belgium for accompanyingus as we doing our meeting in here. We hope youguys can have a lot of better experiences with ournew implementation for IAAS.

Conference On Beef CattleBy IAAS ItalyNovember 22nd, 2019 (Sassari, Italy)

During the conference professors and expertstook part to bring to light the most importantissues in the sector, there was the talk ofreproduction, meat production, and sustainabilityof the same.The conference was attended by 130 peopleincluding students, professionals, breeders, andacademics and was held together with theDepartment of Agriculture, Department ofVeterinary Medicine, Professional Association ofAgronomists, Professional Association ofVeterinary Physicians and other Regional PublicResearch Organizations.

News From Experimental GardenNovember 18th, 2019 (Portici, Italy)

We are still working on the "winter" experimentalgarden. The goal of the winter garden is to preparethe soil for the culture of 2020 and to introducethe members of the local committee in farmingpractices.



Following the Sub regional Meeting North weorganized our National Motivational Weekend toplan the next Semester. We had a Training by ourown Trainers and a Workshop to implement theregional projects into our committee. Furthermorewe formed the Organizational Committee for ourExchange Week for the spring Semester. Weenjoyed a delicious Raclette Dinner and did a citychallenge through Zurich for teambuilding and toget to know the first Semester students

The Second Thursday Beer Night Of The Autumn SemesterNovember 8st - 9st, 2019 (Zürich, Switzerland)

At our university the ETH Zürich the studentassociation of the agriculture and food sciencedepartment (VIAL) organizes a Thursday Beerevery week of the semester. IAAS Switzerland ispart of VIAL and we take our turns of organizingthese Thursdays. We regularly break the record ofbest visited Thursday Beer of the Semester withmost sold beers. Our second Beer Night included aBeer Pong tournament. Once again we had a verysuccessful night.

National Motivational WeekendBy IAAS SwitzerlandNovember 8st - 9st, 2019 (Zürich, Switzerland)

Visiting The Former National Director Of SwitzerlandNovember 8st - 9st, 2019 (Zürich, Switzerland)

Like every year we visited one of our formerNational Directors on the Uetliberg close toZurich. We brought our own food and drinks,while he offered us a lovely fireplace and storiesfrom the old IAAS times. After the barbecue andGlühwein we then hiked down back to Zurich inthe moonlight.

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Exchange Week In PolandBy IAAS CroatiaNovember 3th- 10th, 2019 (Poland)

On the exchange week, they visited theMeteorological Institute in Warsaw, the foodbank, the cow farm at the college and theirgreenhouses, the Festival of Light in the RoyalGardens, the Polish Vodka Museum, and variousother museums, churches and other touristattractions.

Jure is back with a lot of new knowledge that hehas already shared with us. The following lectureswere held during the exchange week: lecture onstorm formation and remote sensing of radarforecasts, lecture on soils and climatic conditionsin Poland, lecture on steps in cow breeding andmilk production, lecture on greenhouse plantresearch and the influence of individualwavelengths light on plant growth, lecture onresponsible business from RBF Poland andlecture on sustainable interior design. The mostmemorable moment was during a visit to a cowfarm where they witnessed the beautiful momentof birth of a small calf. Judging by the stories,there was a lot of laughs and good fun!

IAAS Croatia participated on exchange week, inPoland, called "Feel the Polish Climate". IAASCraotia was represented by Jure Atlija. BesidesIAAS Croatia the participants were also: IAASGreece, IAAS Switzerland, IAAS Belgium andIAAS Germany

The University Of Zagreb SummitNovember 21th- 23th, 2019 (Zagreb, Croatia)

The University of Zagreb Summit is organized forhigh school students, students and othersinterested in timely notification of study programsin particular professions in Zagreb.We, as representatives of our faculty, shared ourexperiences gained while studying with futurestudents. We were very pleased with thegraduates who came with great interest in ourprofession and with many interesting questions.We hope that we have provided our futurestudents with all the necessary details.We are certainly richer for experience and a fewnew acquaintances!

November was full of events for our committees.We hope that these activities will furthercontribute to the work of our committees and wehave many new projects in the pipeline. We alsovisited the ethno village Moravski Konaci. IAASserbia visited two well-known wineriesRadovanovic and King Peter I. The Novi SadCommittee had ICIA preparations and an open dayat the faculty.

IAAS Serbia ActivityBy IAAS SerbiaNovember 21th- 23th, 2019 (Zagreb, Croatia)



Motivation WeekendBy IAAS SpainNovember 22th - 24th, 2019 (Valencia, Spain)

Firstly, as usual, when we arrived on Friday weorganized some typical IAAS integration games.After that, we did trade fair, where every 5-6people had a country assigned. Every team had like20 minutes to cook everything. Also, we dressed upwith typical and original costumes from thedifferent places (India, Poland, USA, France,Mexico, Italy and Spain). Next day after breakfastwe explained what IAAS is to the new membersand after we got divided into 6 groups and had tosimulate the organization of an event (it was agood training for new members because we ourplan is organize and Exchange week next semester)After lunch we played a very fun Gymkhana,where both Madrid and Valencia had organizeddifferent games, and the winner team had a littlegift (a bottle of the typical Spanish drink Orujo).Finally that night we did a Cantus, where some ofthe old members run it and took a quite goodserious role on it. Last day we cleaned upeverything and say goodbye to each other. It was areally fun weekend and productive! We reallythink we motivated our new members, which wasour first goal.

Induction Of New MembersBy IAAS NigeriaNovember 22th - 23th, 2019 (Nigeria)

IAAS-UI held a 2-day induction ceremony for theintending members of the association who hadbeen interviewed, approved to be members of theassociation. It started on Friday, 22nd of Novemberwith a visit to the Teaching and Research Farm inthe University where we were given an extendedtour and taught and shown many aspects on thefarm. Saturday, 23rd of November was the secondday. In the morning, the formal event held;members gave presentations, and took the oathand were officially accepted into the association.We also had a guest speaker; Mr. Quincy Bensonfrom Agropark who spoke on the theme andmajored in educating us on Spices production. Theinducted ended in the evening with a hangoutwhere everyone ate, drank, played games and gotto know each other. It was a successful event withpositive responses from those present.

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Aseiagro ConferenceBy IAAS USANovember 18th - 22th, 2019 (Santa Marta, Columbia)

Caryn Dawson, a member of IAAS Iowa, toColombia for a week to attend the AseiagroConference. IAAS students from the Americaswere invited to encourage the formation of a newIAAS committee in Colombia.

Invitation to Europeans Directors MeetingBy IAAS USANovember 28th - December 5th, 2019 (Bonn, Germany)

Adam Bittner traveled to Bonn, Germany to attendthis year's European Directors Meeting. Adam andEuropean students went on a variety of farm andindustry tours. IAAS members at the EuropeanDirector’s Meeting also participated in aDevelopment Fund and Trade Fair.

Malaysian Cooking Class

Attending the World Food Prize Conference



Mesoamerican Ethnobiology SymposiumBy IAAS GuatemalaNovember 2th - 6th, 2019 (Guatemala City)

From November 2 to 6 in Guatemala City we werepresent at the first Mesoamerican ethnobiologysymposium, where we participated in differentacademic and cultural activities

Latin American And Caribbean CongressBy IAAS GuatemalaNovember 4th - 8th, 2019 (Chapingo, Mexico)

From November 4 to 8, IAAS Guatemala sent adelegation to participate in the Latin American andCaribbean Congress -CLEIA- for its acronym inSpanish, held at the Autonomous University ofChapingo in the Mexico State

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IAAS Summit by IAAS IndonesiaNovember 30th , 2019 (Indonesia)

What a fun day! November 30th became anextraordinary day when many young peoplegathered together at the Bulungan PerformanceBuilding, South Jakarta. Critical and creative aretwo things that are forged on the same day tocreate awareness of young people for thesustainability of agriculture in this disruptive era.4.0 era became a challenge, as technology sweptacross the agricultural sector with thesophistication and practicality it provided. About150 people agreed to work together to build abetter farm together with great speakers.

Starting from Mr. Graha Abadi Pasyaman S.P,Indonesian Farmers' Co-Founder, realizes howclassy it is to be a modern farmer today. Many factsabout agriculture today are a slap for the youngergeneration to immediately start steps to advanceIndonesian agriculture. Then, Mr. BayuKhrisnamurti, Lecturer in the Faculty ofAgribusiness, University of IPB, provided a varietyof extraordinary information about agriculture andhow to create a managing farm through its videomaterial. Then, Dr. Eva Anggraini, Director ofScientific Publications and Strategic Information atthe University of IPB, gave extraordinaryknowledge about the 4.0 industrial revolutionwhich is currently grappling with the world ofVUCA. Hope with the presence of this speaker isable to create and grow the soul of the youngergeneration to immediately take steps to advanceIndonesian agriculture.



IAAS Conversation Club & MUNNovember 30th, 2019 (Sumedang, Indonesia)

IAAS Conversation Club is a forum for IAASmembers to improve their discussion skills inEnglish with certain discussion themes. This year'sseries of ICC activities raised the main theme ofSDGs No. 14, Life Below Water, which began withthe ICC Round Table Discussion that held in Gd.Multimedia Faperta Unpad on October 18th 2019,then the Workshop of Model United Nation onOctober 22nd 2019 and the last was the ModelUnited Nation Simulation with the specific theme"Reducing Water Pollutions that AffectingFisheries" that held on November 9th 2019 inStudent Center Faperta Unpad

Village Concept Project 2019 IAAS LC UNPADOctober 5th – November 10th, 2019

IAAS LC Unpad held Village Concept Project 2019at Desa Cinanjung from October until November.In 5 October 2019, we held a bazaar at villagehead office, Cinanjung Village, Sumedang. Thebazaar opened for public, This event began withthe greeting from the MC and IAAS LC UNPADrepresentative. Our goal in organizing this eventis to introduce IAAS, especially VCP Team to thepeople in cinanjung village The bazaar ended thenclosed with photo session. In November 10th2019, we held free medical checkup at villagehead office, Cinanjung Village, Sumedang. Thismedical checked up opened for public, the firstsession of this event began at 8.30 - 9.30, andsecond session started at 9.30 until 11.00, the lastsession is only for members of KWT Malati Asih.Our goal in organizing this event is to introduceIAAS, especially VCP Team to the people incinanjung village, and also encourage the peopleto be more aware and care about their healtg. Thisevent ended at 11.00, then closed with photosession with KSR PMI UNPAD as our eventpartner in this week.

IAAS Orientation ProgramNovember 9th - 19th, 2019 (Malang, Indonesia)

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IAAS LC UB AnniversaryBy IAAS IndonesiaNovember 16th, 2019

IAAS Anniversary is an annual event held tocelebrate the annversary of IAAS LC UB. Theevent was in a form of gathering of all active IAASLC UB member to Alumni of IAAS LC UB. Thisevent was held on November 16th 2019 at PapaBear Café and Restaurant. The event consisted ofmany fun activities including; gathering, talkshowby our alumni, games, department performance,and many more! On this event we invited severalalumni from older IOP to share about theirexperience in IAAS LC UB and its impact to theirlife. We had Mr. Johan Pambudi S.P from IOP 1,Local Committee Director of IAAS LC UB 1999-2000, and even one of the IAAS Vice Presidentfrom 2004 as speaker of our event.

CroAgro: Agricultural, Agricultural Equipment and Mechanical Trade FairBy IAAS Croatia December 5-8, 2019

At the fair we represented our association and

faculty. The fair held a ratings, a professional

gathering for vegetable producers, an

international OPG conference and two very

stimulating and popular choices; Selection for the

best producer in the pig, dairy, field and vegetable

processing sectors and the Croatian Tractor of the

Year selection.

At the fair, we met ExPro family; Sinjorina smokva

EKO. On organic family farm, according to the

traditional Dalmatian reception, organic fruit

spreads are made of figs, quinces, higher stamps,

plums and tangerines and they provide

accommodation in the farm.



Student associations, including us, have beenorganizing Agro Advent. It is a Christmas fair thatbrings together students from the Faculty ofAgriculture actively involved in agriculture toshowcase and promote their products. Also, thefair is of a humanitarian nature so the studentassociations made various cakes, decorations,cooked wine etc. We sold it all to collectdonations. This year, we donated money to a onefamily who needed help. We hope we made theirholiday time a little better.We are very happy with the communication thatwe have achieved on this fair with the faculty,associations, other students and of coursestrengthened the connection with our members!

Agro AdventBy IAAS CroatiaDecember 5th- 8th , 2019

Our colleagues from the IAAS Serbia from theCommittees of Novi Sad visited us, so weorganized a motivational weekend to get to knoweach other.Our experienced soft skills trainer Manuela Vukićheld a workshop called “Organization of IAASevents”. The workshop was excellent. Manuelasuccessfully transferred her knowledge andexperience to members of IAAS Serbia(Committee Novi Sad) and IAAS Croatia. Apartfrom getting to know our ideas and works of theIAAS, we also found time for some great fun. Wevisited the famous Advent in Zagreb and of coursehad a good time. It was a small but goodmotivational weekend. We are looking forward toseeing them again!

Motivational WeekendBy IAAS CroatiaDecember 13th – 15th, 2019



ADIPRAYA IAAS LC UGMBy IAAS Indonesia30th of November - 1st of December (Indonesia)

On 30th of November to 1st of December,although in the middle of the exam month, IAAS LCUGM was very excited to hold a fabulous eventAdipraya Festival which was held at Pujale UGM.The event officials were staff from all ofdepartments of IAAS LC UGM who registeredbefore the event. The event was held to motivateand educate people to improve their daily lifehabits in order to actualize sustainableenvironment. The environment was taken as ourmain concern because it’s the closest aspect to us.The target of the event was all of the people in thesociety in general. The event went terrific as theevent officials, visitors, and tenants were allexcited during this event. In order to intensify ourobjectives, various methods are used such as;sorting out tenants who have concern onenvironment sustainability, using less plastic notonly for decorations but also almost everythingthat were used during this event.

There were 13 tenants who participated duringthis event which are Samara Natural, 1719 NoviBamboo, Opposite Coffee, Zerowaste, Bye-byePlastic, Sektimuda, Kombuchaisme, Moonshine,Project B, Soraja, Ranah Bhumi, Oke Sayur, andFortunate. The activities during this event aretalkshows by Opposite Coffee and Sektimuda inthe first day, Zerowaste, Oke Sayur, Gifood, andBye-bye Plastic Bag in the second day; live music;fun activities which are Mini Games by Rapel_idand Tukar Baju by Zerowaste which exchange ourold clothes with other clothes to reduce textilewaste; and photo contest. The event went terrificand smoothly even though there are still manyplastic wastes were used. We hope from this eventIAAS LC UGM will inspire others to concern aboutour own environment.

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Environmental Sustainability Club Bake SaleBy IAAS USADecember 1, 2019 (Knoxville, TN)

Members of IAAS UTK made and sold baked goodsat the Environmental Sustainability Bake Sale. Aportion of all profits from the bake sale were givento The Love Kitchen a local non-profit that helpsfood to homeless and unemployed individuals.

We participated in the conference about climateresilient agriculture organized by CECAMA. Wewere able to introduce our upcoming event ourseminar about agriculture and climate change thatwill take place in March. We met many professorsand many people who agreed to help us in theorganization of our event. Many thanks toCECAMA for making that happen and fororganising this conference.

Participation in CECAMAConferenceBy IAAS MoroccoDecember 12th (Rabat, Morocco)

On the occasion of the world soil day, thecommunication board made a video about theimportance of soil, as an essential source of life. Itwas an opportunity to remind everyone thatprotecting the earth starts from the ground. All ofthe IAAS members took part of it and had funmaking the video. we posted it on our InstagramAccount.

World Soil DayBy IAAS MoroccoDecember 27th (Rabat, Morocco)



The Day Of Civism And Citizenship By IAAS Côte d’IvoireDecember 12, 2019 (Côte d’Ivoire)

As part of the collaboration with other studentassociations, IAAS Côte d´Ivoire was invited by thePeace Club to take part in the second edition ofcivism and citizenship day. The theme of the daywas: "What contributions from actors in theacademic world for lasting peace in Côte d'Ivoire".The objective of this activity was to raiseawareness of the importance of association andunion leaders in maintaining social cohesion andpeace in the university environment and toencourage each actor to favor the path of dialoguefor the peaceful resolution of problems.

IAAS Cote d´Ivoire participated in the activitycalled “Christmas of the environment”. Thisactivity consisted of making the campus clean bycleaning the classrooms and picking up thegarbage lying around the campus. The goal of thisaction was to sensitize the students to keep theirenvironment clean. This activity was marked bythe presence of several leaders of studentassociations

Environment DayBy IAAS Côte d’IvoireDecember 20, 2019 (Côte d’Ivoire)

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After being elected for the European DirectorsMeeting 2019 on the EDM 2018 in Madrid, IAASBonn started organizing the event. The event tookplace in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, a small townclose to Bonn and Cologne. It started onNovember 28th, 2019 and ended December 5th,2019. It was divided in two parts.: the first partcontained the general assembly includingworkshops and trainings performed by two trainedmembers of the IAAS Training committee (ITC).The second part’s focus was on visits andexcursions to activities in the Rhineland. 30participants from 12 different countries(Switzerland, USA, Mexico, Nepal, Poland,Bulgaria, Spain, France, Belgium, Greece, Italy andTurkey) plus 15 members of IAAS Germany (Bonnand Hohenheim) took part in the event.

The European Directors Meeting was a chance tomeet people coming from different backgroundsand countries in order to contribute to theenhancing of IAAS Europe and its projectsimplemented in each member country. Plus, thenew European Board had to be elected. Visitsaimed at offering a diverse and interesting insightin the agricultural sector in Germany, but alsoGerman culture, mainly experienced on Christmasmarkets and city tours in Bonn and Cologne.

During the GAs, which were led by or VicePresident of Finance Marie-Agnès Fine fromFrance, a general presentation about IAAS worldworking structures was presented as well as ournew social media strategy. In addition, currentboard members gave a short overview of the workthey have done in the previous year, before newcandidates presented themselves and their ideasto improve IAAS Europe. Elections took place atthe end of the Gas. Besides voting for new Boardmembers, it was voted for a new approach for theEuropean Board in order to make workingstructures better and more efficient.

First Part: General Assembly

European Directors MeetingBy IAAS Germany

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We went by public transportation to do somesightseeing and visit farms and organizations inthe Rhineland. This was quite time consuming, sowe had to thoughtfully plan our trips in advance inorder to keep traveling time at a minimum level.Further, we split the group to create smaller ones,because there was often a limit of people thatcould attend visits, e.g. the UN in Bonn.

Whereas Group A visited the UN and a plasticsorting plant (waste management site), Group Bwent to Campus Klein-Altendorf (Universityfarm) and a museum about natural sciences. Bothgroups participated in a workshop executed byEngagement Global and two farms, but atdifferent times. On the last day, everybody wentto Cologne. One group visited the Max-PlanckInstitute for plant breeding, while the second halfenjoyed a stay at the chocolate museum in thecity centre. At lunch time both groups reunited infront of the “Kölner Dom” and were given freetime to explore the city.

• Regional Director: Salvatore De Vincentis (Italy)• Finance (& External Relations) Coordinator: Thanasis

Tsimas (Greece)• Exchange Program Coordinator: Chrysostomos

Spyropoulos (Greece)• Communication Coordinator: Pablo Atienza (Spain)• Projects Coordinator: Nina Stoop (Belgium)

Second Part: Excursion

Trade Fair Night

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On Monday, 23/12/2019 took place inUniversity of Ghana (UG) Okuafo Hall thelaunch IAAS's annual African Congress whichwill cover the period from 22 to 28 December2018 at Legon and KNUST Universities.

The meeting of African member of IAAS(African Directors' Meeting: ADM) group thisyear several countries namely Benin, Niger,Mali, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Gambia and IvoryCoast. Seven (7) days of students fromdifferent backgrounds Was exposed tolectures on topics related to the theme "BetterNutrition, Better Life".

African Directors MeetingBy IAAS GhanaDecember 23, 2019 (Ghana)

The first general assembly was held on theThursday 24th of December, 2019. OsinubiGbenga Benjamin from Nigeria was elected as thechairperson of the General Assembly.The agenda for the first meeting were state ofIAAS World by Adu Richard (VP External RelationIAAS World), Discussion on InternationalConference for Youth in Agriculture by were stateof IAAS World by Adu Richard (VP ExternalRelation IAAS World), application for regionalboard and the next ADM host country by thechairperson.The second general assembly was held on Friday27th of December, 2019. The agenda for themeeting were reading of the last minute, adoptionof the minute, reports from regional board,introducing the regional board applicants andmanifesto, constitution of electoral committeesand any other business.After the reading of the last minute and adoption,the regional board report was given byAgbodossindji Sedo Karl (VP ExchangeCoordinator IAAS Africa). The report was fairenough being the first time report will be given byregional board after a long time in IAAS Africa.The introduction of the regional board applicantwas done by the general assembly chairperson fortheir manifesto, here are the applicants

General AssemblyDecember 24, 2019 (Ghana)

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After being voted to be the hosting committee ofDirector´s Meeting of América for the year 2020during the DMA 2018 in Guatemala; IAASParaguay organized this event within a schedule of7 days from January 12th to January 19th in thecities of Asunción, General Delgado, Encarnación,Bella vista, Hernandarias, Juan E. O’Leary andPiribebuy. With 30 participants from 9 countrieswhich are USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador,Panama, Peru, Paraguay, Spain and Portugal.

The event Director´s Meeting of América; is aninternational event created by IAAS, consists ofone week of exchange between students of theinvited countries and hosting country. This eventhas a multidisciplinary approach to its main topicswith emphasis on academic research, internationaland national realities, official IAAS activities andalso on the latest innovations in the agriculturesector.

Directors Meeting of AmericaBy IAAS ParaguayDecember 12, 2020 (Asuncion, Paraguay)

During the event there were activities establishedaccording to the theme of the event: Agriculture,Livestock and Energy; in addition to characteristicactivities of the event such as trade fair,development found and workshops. Below, we willbe detailing each activity according to itsdistribution:

Company in charge of the production,industrialization and marketing of rice; observingthe management of the crop from the preparationof the soil, obtaining vegetative material,transplantation, cultural care, harvesting methods.Regarding the industrial area, the method ofconditioning, selection packaging and distributionof the product was observed.Industrial company of citrus and balanced: guidedtour with explanation of the process of collectionof materials to be industrialized (citrus),industrialization process, product quality controls,packaging and marketing at national level. In termsof balancing, quality controls, ration calculationsfor each type of balancing (for animal), processing,packaging and distribution processes at nationallevel.

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The main visit of the area was made to thebinational hydroelectric Itaipu; N° 1 worldwide interms of the amount of energy produced, locatedin the limit Paraguay - Brazil. During the guidedtour, recognizing beginnings, history, amount ofenergy produced, use of turbines, distributionsystem, quantity of flow, complete energyharvesting process and mechanisms used andrecognition of protected areas by the sameinstitution.

Energy Sector Excursion

Company with silvopastoril activity, responsiblefor the production of the eucalyptus and currentlyinitiating livestock management process withfeedlot system; exposing installation methods,economic aspects, main challenges, benefits,among other aspects to be taken into accountduring the installation of projects.

Livestock Sector Excursion

The main activities were carried out in the city ofEncarnación and Hernandarias; among the mainworkshops we have an activity in conjunction withthe rotary community, with which native treeswere planted in an area established by them. Withthe help of the participants the installation ofsmall trees and first irrigation was carried out, themain objective of which was to promote smallspaces of green areas for recreation consideringthe high temperatures in the area. The subsequentcare will be carried out by zonal community ofinhabitants with support from IAAS Paraguay andthe Rotaract district.

The following workshop was held in the city ofHernandarias within a nature reserve, duringwhich the main projects of IAAS world werediscussed, bringing to light the new projects,

Through the activity, we were able to obtain greatideas about local projects that can promote theirgrowth, based on the motto: Think Globally, ActLocally.

Main Activities



As for the Trade Fair, it was held in the city ofEncarnación, in which each organization exhibitedthe main meals, drinks, traditions, customs andeven clothing typical of their country; with a greatparticipation of those present, there was anunforgettable moment of much culture and joy.

For General Assambly, it began with thepresentation of activities carried out during 2019by each delegation at the American level and acommunication with the President of IAAS Worldin order to communicate the activities carried outat the global level.

There was also a lot of participation from thosepresent and a lot of motivation on the part of thecandidates for regional posts. We have a greatdiversity of countries distributed in regionalpositions which presented good motivations andwork plans on which was deposited the fullconfidence for the regional and global growth ofIAAS.

As a last activity, the Development Found was heldin the city of Piribebuy, with a lot of articlesoffered by each delegation and invited countries,ending with a great participation of those presentduring the activity.

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Asia Pacific Directors Meeting (APDM) is an annualevent of International Association of Student inAgricultural and Related Sciences (IAAS) which wassuccessfully held on 24th to 28th February atUniversity of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia. APDM2020 was actively attended by Indonesia and Nepalwhile other country member such as Bangladeshand Taiwan attended through online platform, withthe number of member participants around 25. ThisAPDM was represented by Regional Board, QualityBoard, and National Directors of DifferentCountry. The program was formally coordinated byRegional Director, Mr. Bagus Kresna UdayanaDharma Kusuma.

The delegate meeting around different countryemphasized with series of activities such asGeneral Assembly, Country and Regional ReportPresentation, Workshop, Trade Fair, DevelopmentFund, and Excursion. General Assembly washighlighted inside the constitution of IAAS which isa fair agenda for everyone. The most importantlyagenda consist of two session: Country Report,Workshop, and Election session. In the CountryReport Presentation session, every country Reportwere presented by delegate in online and offlinebasis whereas, Regional Report were present inthe event by Regional Communication andDirector.

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To make the IAAS Asia Pacific stronger and greater,the dreaming process crafting IAAS Asia pacific wasdirectly led by Regional CommunicationCoordinator Mr. Festus. This workshop sessionmostly focuses on activities and mission of IAAS topromote the Exchange of Experience, Knowledgeand Ideas and to improve the mutualUnderstanding between Students in the field ofAgricultural and Related Sciences all over theWorld. Delegates of APDM work on the Goldencircle to make the IAAS activities more sustainableand Impactful.

Similarly, Mr. Alawy as Control Council IAASIndonesia having his presentation on Myers-Briggstype indicator (MBTI) for the people personalitytest assessment and to mindset yourself to knowabout yourself before selecting the role andresponsibility for position. The Trade fair and theDevelopment fund was also conducted by the Mr.Bagus, were we taste the local Indonesian product.

Finally, during the Excursion Day APDM, we haveour visitation to the Bonsai Culture Farming at UDArtha, one of the famous hosting places in IAAS.Bonsai are the trees and plants grow in containersin a such way that they look their most beautiful-even prettier than those grow in wild. CultivatingBonsai, therefore, is very artistic hobby. Mr.Bikram learn to made bonsai tree by their own andsupervise by the farm owner. The technique is sounique and attractive. Farm bring the volcano sandas nutritive material for the bonsai and there weremore than 50 years of old plant in the garden



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Leo Omega Club X IAAS No Food Waste CampaignBy IAAS GuatemalaJanuary 2020

Earlier this year, the Leo Omega Club organized amarathon to fight hunger in Guatemala. In thisoccasion, IAAS Guatemala was invited tocollaborate with the organization of this racehelping with a hydration stand for the athletes. Wetook this opportunity to promote the challenge of#NoFoodWaste to the attendees of the event andat the same time we raised awareness about thelimited access of food in the world and encouragingto not wasting it

New Board from LC of NapoliBy IAAS Italy

January 9th, 2020

On January there was the Election of the New localBoard in Naples! We elected the President, VicePresident, Secretary, Treasurer and twoCouncilors. They are new members and they are somotivated. The names and roles are: President(Simona Cozzolino); Vice President (MikeTiburcio); Secretary (Simone Marzano); Treasurer(Antonio Esposito); Councilor (Francesca Castaldi);Councilor (Salvarore Meles.)



Beer Making by IAAS NapoliBy IAAS ItalyJanuary 22nd , 2020

Do you remember the last beer we produced? So,finally we decanted our cask in the Department ofViticolture and Enology in Avellino (AV) with thehelp of Prof.Giuseppe Blaiotta who always helpedus with beer. He also helped us to analyze withmicroscopes the micropart of the cooked must,seeing the yeasts inside were in partly alive and theother part had finished the fermenting activity andwe decided beer will be used for researchpurposes. Last month we produced a beer and wetried recipe of Weizen beer, but we had a littleproblem with the yeast, so now we finallyunderstood the fermentative capacity of theBrettanomyces which were used in the Sour , andwe decided to use that yeast to restart thefermentative activity of the Weizen.Next step willbe put inside the cask Weizen beer and we willwait after one month the results but every day wewill carefully follow the fermentation which mustbe spontaneous due to the yeast already present inthe cask. We also will prepare new Starter for thenext beer we will produce on March/April and we’llparticipate to another contest “ Birrando SiImpara” in Avellino (AV)

Organic Inspection and Certification WorkshopBy IAAS NepalJanuary 24th , 2020

In January 2020, the International Association ofstudent in Agricultural and related Sciences NepalLocal Committee HICAST organized two daysworkshop in organic inspection and organiccertification. The main goals of this two days eventwere to promote the idea of organic farmingamong participants and expose them to theprocess for organic certification. Around 70students from the college took part in this event.On the first day of the workshop, theoreticalsession was led by speakers Professor Khem RajDahal, Department of Agronomy, TU, Mr. ShankarGurung, MD of Aryas Organic Farm and Bishal KC,Inspector of Organic Agriculture. On the secondday, to practically demonstrate what goes on tocertifying an organic farm the team visitedAshapuri Organic Farm located at Ashapuri,Nasika VDC, Kavre, Nepal. Students were briefedabout the agronomic practices practiced in thefarm by a worker. It followed by farm tour wherestudents observed several crops and vegetablesbeing grown. Shitake mushroom, Brussels Sprouts,Leafy Vegetables, Cereals etc were some of thecrops grown there. It was a good learning for all theparticipants..

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United Nation Youth ConferenceBy IAAS USAFebruary, 2020

We had five members from IAAS Iowa whoattended the UN Youth Conference in New YorkCity. They had a great time meeting youth from allover the world, and getting the opportunity tolearn about the goals for a more sustainable future.

IAAS Oregon State University Meeting with Japan StudentsBy IAAS USAFebruary, 2020

IAAS at OSU presented about Oregonagriculture to a visiting group of studentsfrom Kyushu University in Japan. Some ofthem tasted their first hazelnut!

Beach Clean UpBy IAAS IndonesiaFebruary 23rd , 2020

Beach Clean Up is the one of the actions to carefor the environment from from waste. This actionwas carried out by IAAS LC Mataram Universityon Sunday, 23th February 2020 in Loang BaloqBeach and Garden Area in Mataram. Action Caringfor trash is certainly the responsibility andobligation of all people on the world. The actionthat carried out by Mataram University’s studentsattracted surrounding children who volunteeredtp join to clean the beach.



Job Raising on Little Spoon Farm in Bali IslandBy IAAS IndonesiaFebruary 19th , 2020

United Nation Youth ConferenceBy IAAS USAFebruary, 2020

This Job Raising was carried out by LocalCommittee Udayana University on 19th February2020 at ‘Little Spoon’ Farm in Bali, Indonesia. Thisis an activity from IAAS LC Unud to visit andfrienship to ‘Little Spoon’ Farm. ‘Little Spoon’ Farmis the one of the expronas hosting place in Lombok,Indonesia. This activity aimed to increasecooperation from that university with the hostingplace, so that good cooperation can be estabilised.

This Job Raising was hosted by Local CommitteeMataram University on 28th February 2020 atLombok Orchid. This is an activity from IAAS LCUnram to visit and frienship of IAAS MataramUniversity’s students to Lombok Orchid. LombokOrchid is the one of the expronas hosting place inLombok, Indonesia. This activity aimed to increasecooperation from that university with the hostingplace, so that good cooperation can be estabilised.

AgrirangerBy IAAS IndonesiaFebruary , 2020

Agriranger was hosted by Local Committee IPBUniversity on 29th February 2020 at MI Al-Azkiafor students at grade 4-6. The students were veryhappy and enjoyed the moment. They were reallyenthusiastic when gluing the fabric on the bottleand decorating them. Last but not least, we did afun photo session with the students and teachersof MI Al-Azkia. Here are some of the moments wecaptured during the event, be sure to check themout

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Iowa State Student Shares Ag Vision in Washington, D.C.By IAAS USAFebruary , 2020

An Iowa State University student was selected toattend the Farm Foundation Round TableCultivator Program in Washington, D.C. inJanuary.

Adam Bittner, a junior in global resource systems,is only the second Iowa State student during thepast 35 years invited to attend the program. Hewas nominated by David Acker, Academic andGlobal Programs associate dean and the Raymondand Mary Baker Chair in Global Agriculture in theCollege of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Bittner said the round-table discussions areempowering for young people who want tocontinue to improve agriculture. He enjoyed theopportunity to learn more about agriculture at thenational and international level and interact withindustry leaders.

“By attending the conference, I reaffirmed that mystudies reflect my passion,” Bittner said. “I think it’seasy to become lost in college and worry aboutpost-graduation plans, but after talking to theRound Table members I know that I will haveopportunities in the future.”

February has been a great month for IAASZimbabwe, a month full of expansion and growth!We are proud to inform you FamilIAAS that IAASZimbabwe has experienced growth from havingonly one local committee to having four new localcommittees making them five. We are certainly notstopping there but moving forward. All thanks tothe hard work the IAAS Zimbabwean ExecutiveCommittee put, this has become a reality. InZimbabwe, the national tree planting day is on thefirst Saturday of December and as IAAS we noticedthat planting trees should not be a once a yearthing but rather a regular thing instead, so wemade it our main goal to add a little bit of twist toit!

Greetings from IAAS ZimbabweBy IAAS ZimbabweFebruary, 2020



IAAS Zimbabwe ExpansionBy IAAS ZimbabweMarch, 2020

March has been a month of expansion for the IAASZimbabwe. We have welcomingly accepted 4additional local members during the month ofFebruary, and now we are witnessing the rappedgrowth of IAAS members in each local committee.March has not only been the time of expansion forthe IAAS Zimbabwe but also strength. The clubmembers have been committed to strengthen theclub by participating in different activates, sharingof experience and thoughts. But of course theglobal pandemic going own in the world of thedeadly virus, COVID-19 have stopped the most ofthe planned activates from taking, even though weare managing to communicate through socialmedia plat forms. We can only hope the situation istemporary and we are all safe and well.

IAAS Bangladesh has organized global articlewriting competition among IAAS membercountries. The main themes of the competition areGMO crops, Waste management and AI inagriculture. The events involved more than 1000students and professionals. Almost 35 articleshave been received from different universities ofBangladesh, Nepal and Nigeria. Among them top10 articles will be selected. The best three (03)articles will be rewarded with certificate, crest, andanother seven (07) articles will get certificates. Thefinal announcement of the competition will be on16th April 2020.

IAAS Bangladesh Global Article Writing CompetitionBy IAAS BangladeshMarch, 2020

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Motivation WeekendBy IAAS AustriaFebruary - March, 2020

IAAS Austria organized a motivation weekend forstudents from BOKU Vienna and members fromother IAAS Groups in Europe (Belgium, Croatia,Germany, Greece, Serbia, Swiss and Turkey). Ittook place at the end of February 2020.Events like this offer a possibility to connect andexchange experiences for all students interestedand willing to invest some time. It´s an easy and funopportunity to increase knowledge and make newfriends.

After most of the participants arrived in Vienna atthe first day, they were welcomed with a relaxedcity tour and a presentation of the most famoussights in Vienna. The last stop was at Centimeternear the Vienna town hall, where we had a feastwith Austrian specialties. Before we called it anight, we had a few drinks at Charly P´s, a well-known Irish pub and then everyone went to theirprivate accommodation provided by the membersof IAAS Austria and their friends.

The next morning, we drove to Hut & Stiel a smallbusiness where they grow and sell eatablemushrooms on coffee grounds. They explained theproduction and we had a tasting of their deliciousproducts. After this interesting and exciting insightof mushroom production we traveled to Rosaliawhere we had accommodation for the next 2 days,had an awesome training (“Get shit done”) by twoexperienced trainers of IAAS and prepared all themeals for participants and organizers.



After the training the key part of every IAAS eventtook place - the Trade fair! Before the event everyparticipant is asked to bring special delicacies anda flag from their home country. At the Trade faireveryone sets the food up on a table and the flagsserves as tablecloth. After every country hadpresented the food and drinks they brought, yougo around and try whatever catches your eye. Butbe prepared: the stealing of the flags from othercountries is part of this event!

After this always special night, with full bellies andtipsy conversations we had brunch rather late thenext morning. But not so sleep the whole day wehad our next excursion planed and drove to thewinery of Ernst Triebaumer. Aside of producingwell known and highly awarded wine, he alsoworks with sheep in the vineyards, plants hedgesfor insects and wildlife and tries to work withnature rather than against it. The afternoon wespend with a stroll at lake Neusiedl, before wedrove back to Rosalia. The day ended with a greatmeal of Gulasch, a movie about the food industryand their untrue statements and some entertainingconversations and discussions accompanied bysome drinks.

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Hello IAAS Family! My name is Martina Mercurio,the new ND’s of IAAS Italy. I’m from Italy, preciselyin Sassari and I attend the third year of my degreecourse in agricultural sciences and technologies.I'm glad to introduce you other members ofNational commitee who will accompany me on inthis fantastic adventure: Filomena Carannante (VPof communication); Luigi la Ragione (VP offinance); Alessia Viscardi (VP of exchangeprogram); Nicola Sanna and Gaetano Piras(Control committee). I really believe in the abilitiesof any one of the guys, I'm sure it's going to be agreat year!

New IAAS Italy National BoardBy IAAS ItalyMarch, 2020

PiantASABy IAAS ItalyMarch, 2020

Initiative created by our local committee ASANaples, consists of having each associate plant aseed of their choice.And is precisely the seed the simbol that thisproject wanted to launch : the will to defend andkeep alive the values of Iaas pro-ving that even inface of difficulties can be born something good.The challenge has been resubmitted by Iaas Italyto other natio-nal committees which havewelcomed with great enthusiasm! It is preciselythey who we must thank, for showing that even inthese moments the union makes the force.

Dissemination ScienceBy IAAS ItalyMarch, 2020

Activity carried out by the guys of our localcommittee Iaas Perugia, consists of a series ofinstagram posts for dissemination in which theydeal with topics concerning food technologies andplant productions.

During the last week of March, for example, thetopic covered the various stages of brewing.



IAAS LC UMY visit their VCP (Village ConceptProject) on March 8th to observe the farm sectorof this village. This village located on Kecitran,Magelang, Indonesia.

Sunday Farming with IAAS UMYBy IAAS IndonesiaMarch, 2020

IAAS LC UGM prosperously held IAAS TalkInternal #2 with the theme “Omnibus Law onAgriculture & Environment: Disruption orSolution?” via Google Meet, which was befriendedby their outstanding speaker, Heronimus Heron, asresearcher from the Mindset Institute. Thisdiscussion refers to the latest polemical-situationoccurred in Indonesia. Even though, the discussionwas held on an online platform, it does not lessenthe excitement of participants. By implementingroleplay methods, participants were divided intofour parts (government, investors, environmentalactivists, and local farmers) to reach the finalresolution of the discussion.

IAAS Talk with IAAS UGMBy IAAS IndonesiaMarch, 2020

Social distancing which is currently happening inIndonesia, is caused by the corona virus (COVID-19) which is increasingly worrying. IAAS help staffand humanitarian fighters to fight the corona virusby making donations. Donations will be given tomedical personnel who need PPE in dealing withthe corona virus. This Donation is open from 25March – 10 April 2020.

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#SnapfoodIAAS is one of our action campaignsabout minimizing the amount of food waste bytaking a picture of our food before and after wefinished it. Then, we share it on our social media totell people that we finished our food. We raise thiscampaign, while we are at home #diRumahAja, butwe still care about the issues of food waste by notleaving food that we eat. We dare you if youcare!!!

SnapFood X Campaign on Happiness FestivalBy IAAS IndonesiaMarch, 2020

Explore the Beauty of MushroomsBy IAAS TaiwanMarch, 2020

For the annual excursion visiting of IAAS Taiwan,we chose “mushroom production” industry as ourtopic this year. Central part of Taiwan, Taichungand Changhua, is at the heart of mushroomindustry. Since 1909, the industry has beendeveloped within the nation. In 1950, mushroomindustry ranked top three among agriculturalproducts exports of Taiwan. In excursion visiting2020, we brought participants to visit factoriesand companies related to mushroom industries,from traditional plants to high-technologyfactories, experiencing the transformation of thebusiness.



For the regional excursion visiting of IAAS Chiayi,the extra-curriculum activity was set in Alishan (阿里山). We visited a tea planter who owned teaplantation and tea factory on the mountain. Theowner introduced specifically about how teaindustry developed, and its marketing channelsthese years. Through the visiting, we knew moreabout the industry and challenges it was facingnow.

Ali Baba Finding TeaTea Plucking in Mt. AliBy IAAS TaiwanApril, 2020

Welcome to IAAS Togo FamilyBy IAAS TogoApril, 2020

Despite of the coronavirus lockdown, likely March,April 2020 was full of activities in all our threelocal committees. IAAS-University of Kara, startedofficially his journey as a full member of IAAS-TOGO with amazing online free trainings. IAAS-University of Lomé and IAAS-INFA de Tôvé shownagain their leadership in severals social projectsruning. In this period of pain caused by corona-virus all our activities during these two last monthaimed to spead joy to all our members and allstudents passionned about agriculture andagribusiness. And we did it with all our energy andpassion. Thanks to our members and all of ourIAAS friends around the world.

Conference on Female Leadership By IAAS TogoApril, 2020

Invited by the JCI, we attended this conferenceheld on 14 March 2020. Our delegation was led bythe Local Director Christophe GAMADO and JoséWOLOU member of the Project Department ofIAAS-UL.

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With the social distancing which is currentlyhappening in Togo, caused by the corona virus(COVID-19) our university was temporary closedand students confided at home. we held on April22, an online trained for our members aimed togive them tips to improve their productivity duringthe confinement. The trainer was M. Folly DAKLA,Local vice president in charge of Projectdepartment.

How to Be Productive during Pandemic COVID-19: WebinarBy IAAS TogoApril, 2020

Aimed to explain to our all students passionedabout agriculture and members of our localcommittees, we held on April 22 an online trainingbased on the topic of “How to link your associativeexperience to a best future professional careerplan setting?” The trainer was M. ChristopheGAMADO, Local Director.

Linking Your Associative Experience for Future: WebinarBy IAAS TogoApril, 2020

The green space project, intiated bythe members of IAAS-INFA led by theexcutive board, aimed to raiseawareness of the benefits of greenspace for mental and physical healthby bringing these benefits directly toINFA de Tove Students. In April weplanted many kind of flowers. Theproject continue going on.

Green Space ProjectApril, 2020



Talk in collaboration with MONUGUA on thetheme "THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THEAGRO-FOOD INDUSTRY" where we had asspecial guests members of the IAAS worldcommittee.

The Impact of COVID-19 toward Agriculture in 2020By IAAS GuatemalaApril, 2020

We organized a live Facebook conference on thetheme "SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE SDGS ANDTHE 2030 AGENDA AND THE UNITED NATIONSUN ORGANIZATION" We had as an special guestthe expert Raúl del Valle

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IAAS Training Committee (ITC) held its firstonline IAAS Training Month. 250 applicationswere received from 25 countries all around theglobe!

The IAAS Training Committee, who's vision isto empower and inspire members of IAAS,builds a crucial element in educating the nextgenerations of IAAS and therefore offers awide arrange of SoftSkill training opportunities.

What is a training ?As a training is an event of varying duration inreal life or online setting, where learning cantake place. In volunteer and corporate worktrainings are held to improvemembers'/employees' skills.

What are Soft Skills?Soft skills are a combination of people skills,social skills, communication skills, character orpersonality traits, attitudes, career attributes,social intelligence and emotional intelligencequotients, among others, that enable people tonavigate their environment, work well withothers, perform well, and achieve their goalswith complementing hard skills.

IAAS Training MonthBy IAAS Training Committee (ITC)From May 11th - May 31st

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In a webinar on the 7th June, the InternationalVeterinary Students’ Association (IVSA) and theInternational Association of Students inAgricultural and Related Sciences (IAAS) hosted anonline event to celebrate World Food Safety Dayon 7 June 2020. Alice Green, an FAO food safetyofficer, has given a brief presentation on the role ofagricultural experts in promoting food safety fromfarm to fork.

Her talk focused on the benefits of food safety –which include improved health, enhanced foodsecurity, strengthened economies and sustaineddevelopment –She also talked about what theprospective veterinarians can do to promoteanimal, human and environmental health with thesame practices.

WORLD FOOD SAFETY DAYIn Collaboration with IVSA Global and FAOJune 7th

Additionally, IVSA and IAAS collaborated to promotethe World Food Safety Day through several posterson social media, Q/A which generated thousands ofinteractions

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Our World Congress 2020

A very exceptional WoCo!EVOLVING IN TIMES OF CRISIS: STEPPING UP OUR IAAS COMMUNITY



General Assembly Day 1The first day started with the introduction of theOnline World Congress also with the election ofchairperson and secretaries for the whole WorldCongress, followed by the amendment proposal forour IAAS Constitution and By-Laws.

There are about 36 amendment proposal has beenexplained during the Day 1. The rest of theproposals will be explained in the Day 2 of GeneralAssembly.

General Assembly Day 2The highlight for today amendment were all aboutnew region, new EB position, and exchangeprogram. The Day 2 of General Assembly takes upto 5 hours straight of intense discussion anddebates.

With so many proposals amendment, everyonewere very active in expressing their opinions.

WoCo TrainingsIn the 2nd Day of World Congress, our IAASTraining Committee delivering their trainingsession with Nina Stoop and Stevan Paunovicabout Motivating Teams and Personal Motivation.

General Assembly Day 3The 3rd Day of General Assembly was started withthe explanation of IAAS World new website by ourwebsite developer, followed by the MembershipOverview by our CB of Membership, Asmita Gaireto explain about our IAAS current membershipstatuses.

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General Assembly Day 4The Day 4 of General Assembly was started withthe first day for EB Report presentation by ourVice President of Communication 19.20, FestusSeptian Yosafat, and our IAAS World President19.20, Diogo Rita.

After the EB Report is finished, the sessioncontinued with the amendment proposal fromprevious general assembly.

General Assembly Day 5Day 5 of General Assembly started with the secondEB Report presentation by Vice President ofExternal Relations, Adu Richard. And thencontinued with Vice President of Exchange, OmarFarhate. Lastly, the Vice President of Finance,Marie-Agnes Fine.

Today GA was very short and everyone is in a highlevel of energy for the upcoming day!

General Assembly Day 6The 6th Day of General Assembly was focused onlyfor our Control Board Report, which are KyrillSattlberger, Hajar Haybout, and Asmita Gaire. TheSession continued with a small flash-mob danceand lastly the session for EB Evaluation Discussion.

General Assembly Day 7Day 7 is the day where all new EB/CB Candidatesfor 20.21 were presenting their applications. Thepresentations took over than 7 hours with 15applicants who applying for the EB/CB positions.



The Special Trade Fair Event: 24IAAS

General Assembly Day 8 & 9Day 8 session was very short with explanationabout Regional Report from every IAAS RegionalCommittee, and next EXCO Meeting and WOCOHost Applications.

Day 9 continued with the explanation from newlyelected Director of IAAS Training Committee,Kyrill Sattlberger. And continued with IAAS 2020Evaluation and Global Project Progress.

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The IAAS’sExchange Program


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EXCHANGE COORDINATOR MEETING (ENGLISH VER)By Exchange Program TeamThe event ExCo Meeting; is an international event

created by IAAS. In a form of an online webinar, theExPro Team made 3 ExCo meetings on severallanguages versions such as English, France andSpanish. ExCo Meeting in English was celebratedon 5 th – 7 th May, 2020 and attended by 1000participants. The first day was generalpresentation related ExCo including :- Introduction - General presentation of ExPro- Village Concept Projects- Why ExPro?- The Exchange Coordinator - Important documents & Google Drive- Regional presentations and testimonials from previous exchange participants- Process and application steps - New Online Exchange System (Website)

EXPRO WORLD CAFE

ITC ONLINE TRAININGS

Second day was ITC online training that wasdelivered from IAAS Training Committee. They areprovided 3 trainings such as; Creative problemsolving when dealing with ExPro by Kyrill S, FromStalking to Partnership by Nina Stoop and FromStalking to Partnership by Ellen Van Mello.These training aims to give IAAS members workingon improving their local ExPro some tricks to startan ExPro or get it to the next level. The goals of thistraining was to help participants find the rightpartners and to help participants to reach out tothese new partners.

The third day was the ExPro World Café, thissession included discussions regarding the CBLamendments related to Exchange Program, thenwe had a brainstorming session. This session wasattended by 28 participants.


EXCHANGE COORDINATOR MEETING (SPANISH VER)June 12 - 14, 2020

The Online ExCo Meeting in Spanish wascelebrated from Friday 12 th to Sunday 14 th June,2020. First Session of Facebook Live, we talkedabout what is IAAS, ExPro, ExCo and importantdocuments at the moment a member apply in anExPro, also Regional presentation of America andEurope. Finally testimonials by Juan Morales formEcuador who traveled to Switzerland in 2019 andNastya Bondarenko from Belgium who traveled toEcuador. This session was reached 2997 peopleand around 120 to 90 people were constantlywatching the live event.

On Sencond day, there were 4 trainings such as ;Effective project management by Andrea, How tosearch for partners and sponsors by Ellen, Visaapplication processes by Carolina, Training ineconomics and personal administration by Isai. Thissession was attended by 80 people. The last daywas expro presentation related ExPro guides andprocess also a Regional presentation of Africa andAsia-Pacific. This last day session was conductedused Facebook live and attended around 90 to 50.

EXCHANGE COORDINATOR MEETING (FRENCH VER)May 22, 2020

The last version was French Session. This versionwas attended by 25 people. The ExPro Team werepresent several topics related Exchange Programincluding the basics, ExPro, ExCo and importantdocuments at the moment a member apply in anExPro.


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EXPRO TALKARPIL 27 - AUGUST 29 2020

ExPro Talk was an event arranged by ExProTeam especially from Intern and StudentCoordinators. This session aim to give a detailinformation related the hosting placeopportunity on several country. The ExPro talksession was delivered in Live instagram@exproiaas with regional exchangecoordinator / exchange coordinator of thecountry, moderator, and testimony fromprevious exchange participant.

These are schedules of ExPro Talk:1. April, 27th : Introduction ExPro Talk2. April, 28th : ExPro Talk in Belgium3. April, 29th : ExPro Talk in Switzerland4. April, 30th : ExPro Talk in Croatia5. May, 1 st : ExPro Talk in Ecuador6. May, 2 nd : ExPro Talk in Morocco andTunisia7. May, 3 rd : ExPro Talk in Indonesia8. May, 4 th : ExPro Talk in Spain9. May, 31 st : VCP in Indonesia10. June, 1 st : VCP in Morocco11. June, 2 nd: VCP in Ecuador12. August 8 th: ExPro talk in Greece13. August 15th : Expro talk in Chile14. August 22 th : ExPro Talk in Peru15. August 29th : ExPro Talk in Mexico

This event was successfully viewed more than+45000 people around the world.


EXCHANGE COORDINATOR MEETING (SPANISH VER)June 12 - 14, 2020

The Online ExCo Meeting in Spanish wascelebrated from Friday 12 th to Sunday 14 th June,2020. First Session of Facebook Live, we talkedabout what is IAAS, ExPro, ExCo and importantdocuments at the moment a member apply in anExPro, also Regional presentation of America andEurope. Finally testimonials by Juan Morales formEcuador who traveled to Switzerland in 2019 andNastya Bondarenko from Belgium who traveled toEcuador. This session was reached 2997 peopleand around 120 to 90 people were constantlywatching the live event.

On Sencond day, there were 4 trainings such as ;Effective project management by Andrea, How tosearch for partners and sponsors by Ellen, Visaapplication processes by Carolina, Training ineconomics and personal administration by Isai. Thissession was attended by 80 people. The last daywas expro presentation related ExPro guides andprocess also a Regional presentation of Africa andAsia-Pacific. This last day session was conductedused Facebook live and attended around 90 to 50.

EXCHANGE COORDINATOR MEETING (FRENCH VER)May 22, 2020

The last version was French Session. This versionwas attended by 25 people. The ExPro Team werepresent several topics related Exchange Programincluding the basics, ExPro, ExCo and importantdocuments at the moment a member apply in anExPro.


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The IAAS’sPartners



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EGEA stands for European Geography Associationfor students and young geographers. It is a networkuniting around 5000 geography students andyoung geographers from almost 100 cities in morethan 30 countries across Europe.

EGEA brings together young geographers in anatmosphere of respect, inclusion and personaldevelopment. This inspires global understanding ofenvironmental and social processes and enables usto bring about a positive impact on society.

The International Veterinary Students’ Association(IVSA) aims to improve the standard of veterinaryeducation internationally through the exchange ofideas, knowledge and culture. The mission of IVSAis to “benefit the animals and people of the worldby harnessing the potential and dedication ofveterinary students to promote the internationalapplication of veterinary skills, education andknowledge”.

IVSA helps to expand the worldwide collaborationof over thirty thousand students, enriching theirstudent experience and improving their skills asfuture veterinarians. It is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1951 and isalso the largest veterinary student association inthe world.

KU Leuven is a research university in the Dutch-speaking city of Leuven in Flanders, Belgium. Itconducts teaching, research, and services in thenatural sciences, engineering, humanities,medicine, law, business, and social sciences. KULeuven is dedicated to education and research innearly all fields. Its fifteen faculties offer education,while research activities are organized by thedepartments and research groups. These facultiesand departments, in turn, are clustered into threegroups: Humanities and Social Sciences, Science,Engineering and Technology (SET), and BiomedicalSciences. Each of these groups has a doctoralschool for its doctoral training programmes.

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IFSA is a globally organised and locally operatingstudents organisation. We connect forestrystudents to their peers and forest-relatedorganisations and policy platforms. Essentiallywe’re in the business of connecting, empowering,and educating the next generation of leaders.

IFSA’s vision of “a world that appreciates forests”describes the dream of having all the people andsocieties on the earth recognize the full worth offorests and fully understand forests, grasping theirimplications and being grateful for their multi-foldcontributions to humanity.

The ISEKI-Food Association is an independentEuropean non-profit organisation, established in2005 by representatives of university institutions,research institutes, companies and associationsrelated to food, coming from all over the world.

The ISEKI-Food Association mission is to support

• Lifelong learning in the food sector,encompassing both academia & industry

• Teachers and Trainers to improve efficacy ofteaching

• Students to gain knowledge more easily• Industry staff / Food professionals to make use

of research results• Researchers to facilitate collaboration• in order to assure the best possible competences

for all working in the food sector; and thuscontributing to serving the consumer with safeand good food.

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ICA, founded in 1988 as the InterfacultyCommittee Agraria, is a network of more than 60universities from the EU and neighbouringcountries (European Higher Education Area,EHEA). Full Membership is currently open to allhigher education institutions in Europe with a focuson the life sciences relating to agriculture, food,forestry, natural resources, rural development andthe environment in the 46 countries subscribing tothe Bologna process. Associate Membership isopen to universities outside of the EHEA.

One of the most significant challenges facing aEuropean higher education institution is thecompetition from other higher educationinstitutions at the European level and worldwide.To succeed, an institution needs to strive toenhance the quality of its provision and to engagein the international arena. ICA’s vision is toenhance our members’ success in the internationalmarket place, in Europe and globally, by providing asupportive environment to share experience, tocooperate in new ventures, and to benefit from theresulting synergy.

Studyportals began as a spin-off from a couple oflarge international study associations. It was bornout of frustration, a total lack of information andoverview of the fast-growing number ofinternational Master’s programmes in Europe. In2007, Mastersportal.com was developed andproved to be a roaring success. Soon after:• ,Bachelorsportal.com,• PhDportal.com,• Shortcoursesportal.com,• Distancelearningportal.com, and• Preparationcoursesportal.comIn 2019, we helped over 36 million students aroundthe world to explore study programmes and makean informed choice, throughout over 200,000courses at 3,750+ educational institutes across 110countries.

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The Global Forum on Agricultural Research andInnovation (GFAR) is an inclusive global mechanismenabling all those concerned with the future ofagriculture and its role in development around theworld to come together and address key globalneeds. GFAR provides an open forum forstakeholders across the agricultural spectrum—from researchers and organizations to farmers—toparticipate in collaborative discussion and actionaround the current and future state of agriculture.

Established in 1996, GFAR was formed as a projectfor resource sharing—a commitment that remainsthe essential purpose of the Forum today. GFARfacilitates collaboration, partnerships and sharingof objectives along the complex pathways fromresearch through to development outcomes.

YPARD is an international movement by YoungProfessionals FOR Young Professionals forAgricultural Development. YPARD operates as anetwork; it is not a formalized institution.

At the heart of YPARD as a movement are itsmembers, who are encouraged to become active intheir area, spread the news about YPARD to otheryoung professionals, encourage a stronger voice ofyouth in their own organizations and share theirviews and ideas with other young professionals inthe network.

This global on-line and off-line communication anddiscussion platform is meant to enable andempower young agricultural leaders around theworld to shape sustainable food systems.

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Thought For Food® unlocks the potential of thenext generations to lead a sustainable food andagricultural revolution.

We work with young people for two reasons:Millennials and GenZs represent the largestdemographics alive. By the numbers, they are alsothe most diverse, tech-savvy, well-educated,globally-connected, and socially-consciousgenerations the world has ever seen. Our foodsystems require a shakeup and young people canlead the change we need, just in time.

We engage next-gen innovators globally. Weempower them with the mindsets and skills theyneed to lead and succeed. And we connect them toinvestment and partnership opportunities to helpscale their impact.

Our purpose is to bring plant potential to lifeWe invest and innovate to transform the way cropsare grown and protected to bring about positive,lasting change in agriculture.

We help farmers manage a complex set ofchallenges from nature and society. Our approachis to ensure that everybody wins: that farmers areprosperous, agriculture becomes more sustainable,and consumers have safe, healthy and nutritiousfood.

Our ambition is to provide enough, better foodwhile protecting the environmentSyngenta plays a vital role in enabling the foodchain to feed the world safely and take care of ourplanet.

Our ambition is to be the most collaborative andtrusted team in agriculture, providing leading seedsand crop protection innovations to enhance theprosperity of farmers, wherever they are.

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ThinkYoung is the first think tank focusing onyoung people. It was founded in 2009 in Brusselsand has expanded to Geneva, Madrid, Hong Kongand Nairobi.

It is a not-for-profit organisation, with the aim ofmaking the world a better place for young people,by involving them in decision making processes andby providing decision makers with high-qualityresearch on key issues affecting young people.

ThinkYoung conducts studies and surveys, makesdocumentary movies, writes policy proposals anddevelops educational programmes. So far,ThinkYoung projects have reached over 600,000young people.

Based on its research on young people, ThinkYoungcreates schools and workshops to empower youthwith the tools to make a change. Through theEntrepreneurship Schools set up in Europe andAsia, every year 300 young people from allcontinents are given the opportunity to cooperate,the chance to learn first-hand experience fromsuccessful entrepreneurs, and the skills to createtheir own company.

At Careers International, we believe thatrecruiters need more than generic job postingsalone to properly convey their value proposition toprospective talent. We also believe thatprofessionals deserve more than just corporatemarketing!

That is why we favour human interaction with ourservice offering. Particularly our jobinar onlineevents that allow shortlisted candidates to engagewith hand-picked managers from the bestcorporations all over the world.

Through us, employers hire the best-qualifiedpeople while professionals make more informedcareer decisions.

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The I.S.L.E - Association for Innovation, Teachingand Promoting Sustainable Development in LifeSciences, Applied Sciences and Social Sciences inEurope and worldwide was founded in June 2012.

Tthe aims of the I.S.L.E Association are to createand maintain a network of European universitiesand non-European research institutions, Non-Governmental Organizations, businesses, otherorganizations or individuals involved in theimplementation of sustainable development and itspromotion in their activities.

Zero Generation is a multidisciplinary team ofprofessional trainers, with European andWorldwide NGO experience in leadership,international project management, training andconsultancy; with special interests in healthcare,engineering and organisational development.

NGO’s, businesses and academic institutionsrequire skills and competencies to grow. Due tolimited accessibility to training, potential remainsuntapped. We aim at contributing to theempowerment and development of individuals andsystems.

Moreover we want to establish a multi-disciplinaryplatform for creating, acquiring and transferringknowledge, and for developing skills to contributeto capacity strengthening on an international scale.

We provide services in training, events’ facilitation,and organisational establishment. In addition weorganise tailor made events, including trainingcourses, teambuilding and teamwork events andconferences.

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More than 80 countries involved, exchanging over4000 traineeships each year. The InternationalAssociation for the Exchange of Students forTechnical Experience, Association sans but lucratif(non-profit association), commonly known asIAESTE A.s.b.l. is an association of nationalcommittees representing academic, industrial andstudent interests.

We serve 4000 students, 3000 employers and1000 academic institutions through career-focusedprofessional internships abroad, social andintercultural reception programmes, internationalnetworking and other career and employerbranding activities in more than 80 countriesworldwide.

Benefits for Partners

Run projects that make an impact!

Contribute in our international events!

Prepare the next leaders of tomorrow!

Run and/or support a project in collaboration with our localcommittees either in rural villages or global campaigns to raiseawareness on specific topics, events or various projects

Our events worldwide are an interesting opportunity to reachthe youth in agriculture and for networking

We shape the best version of the youth in agricultural andrelated sciences across the globe by taking leadership positionsin IAAS. The same youth in agriculture will tomorrow participatein the development and progress in their respective countries.

Do you want to collaborate with us?

Contact [email protected]

For Youth Organizations and NGOs

For Sponsors

We collaborate with many youth and students’ organizations andNGOs. We invite each other to events. Together, we holdcampaigns about different topics and raise awareness thanks toour wide coverage. Contact us if you would like to collaborate withus!

If you are interested in our events and global projects and want tosupport them, you can also reach us out! You will not only besupporting the event and the project itself but you will becontributing in the preparation of the leaders of tomorrow andmaking a global impact!

For Farms/Research Centers You can also collaborate with us by offering internships to studentsfrom all around the world through our Exchange Program!Reach us out through [email protected]

For UniversitiesYou can also participate in our Study Abroad Program and promoteyour study programs and opportunities through our wide network!Reach us out through [email protected]

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Our Liasion StatusThe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is aspecialized agency of the United Nations thatleads international efforts to defeat hunger.Our goal is to achieve food security for all andmake sure that people have regular access toenough high-quality food to lead active, healthylives. With over 194 member states, FAO works inover 130 countries worldwide. We believe thateveryone can play a part in ending hunger.

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