Welcome
Welcome to the website of the Global NutrITion programme. This is a joint venture involving several Swedish university institutions. The Secretariat is located at the Department of Rural Development Studies, at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The programme collaborates with the Center for Nutrition and Toxicology (CNT), Department of Biosciences at Novum, Karolinska Institutet and the Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, where it was initiated in 1999. The programme receives funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) through the International Training Programme.
The main aim of the programme is to initiate and support IT-network collaboration in training and research among departments and universities globally and to provide a professional update of current global nutrition issues. Each year 25 academics from universities in Africa, Asia and/or Latin America are invited to learn about current issues and controversies in global nutrition and how to use information technology in higher education/research in the field of nutrition.
By 2004 around 150 academic teachers from nearly 50 countries have participated in the programme and are able to continue networking and collaboration via the Global NutrITion electronic network.
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