Campus Venlo
Health, nutrition and business are the three main focus points at Campus Venlo. Research and educational topics range from food innovation and the psychology of eating to logistics optimisation. Research at Campus Venlo is done in an interdisciplinary fashion within three research lines. Next to this Campus Venlo offers three programmes of study: one bachelor's programme and two master's programmes.
Education
University College Venlo
University College Venlo (UCV) is unique. You follow your interests and select your own courses. This enables you to study issues related to health, nutrition and business in an interdisciplinary manner. With the help of your personal academic advisor, you build a tailor-made bachelor's programme, perfecty adapted to the Master’s programme or professional position you aim for.
Sustainable Bioscience
Bachelor's programme
Explore how bioscience can power a healthier planet. Study the future of food: how to grow, improve, and make it more nutritious. Think beyond traditional biology. With hands-on, interdisciplinary methods, you will learn to engineer sustainable solutions.
Crop Biotechnology and Engineering
Master's programme
Ready to help feed the world and make agriculture climate-resilient? This programme blends cutting-edge plant science with technologies like AI and robotics. Get all the tools you need to redesign and innovate smart greenhouse systems from the ground up!
Health Food Innovation Management
Are you interested in developing new food and nutrition solutions to optimize health and prevent and treat disease? Would you like to know how a health food product goes from being just an idea to being launched in the market? And would you like to be involved in creating commercially viable foods that are both tasty and healthy? Then Health Food Innovation Management could be just the programme for you.
Global Supply Chain Management and Change
Are you a creative thinker who can innovate to achieve a competitive edge? Are you interested in supply chain management processes and how they can be improved? And would you like to make a real difference to a company that wants to compete in a dynamic, international marketplace? If so, the master’s programme in Global Supply Chain Management and Change may be the perfect way to start your career.
Research lines
Food Claims Centre Venlo (FCCV)
Centre for Healthy Eating & Food Innovation (HEFI)
The Centre for Healthy Eating and Food Innovation (HEFI) is focused on the promotion of healthy eating by researching the effects of food on human health, developing innovative, healthy food products and advancing the promotion of healthy dietary habits.
Research by the Centre for Healthy Eating and Food Innovation (HEFI) is organised in three topics:
- Microbiology of the gastrointestinal tract
- Behavioral gastronomy
- Food innovation and health
Brightlands Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (BISCI)
BISCI seeks to apply the latest results of logistics research to address the challenges of service providers in the region and beyond. In addition, the institute trains the next generation of professionals who can contribute to supply chain innovation in the industry.
Campus Venlo tour
Check out our campus and student studio's, right in the city center of Venlo!
News
Brightlands High Tech Agro: where robots and plants shape the future of horticulture
The future of our food? It's growing in the labs at Brightlands
Running makes sweet taste less sweet
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