PINC: Application for academic year 2010-2012 is open!

The application for PINC (Post-graduation International Nematology Course) academic year 2010 - 2012 is open!!!

The scholarship granted by the Flemish interuniversity council and university development cooperation is oriented towards students and professionals from countries from the following list: VLIR country list. The VLIR scholarship programme is particularly aimed to people from developing countries with a minimum of professional experience who occupy key or strategic positions at an institution in their native country. The opportunities for knowledge application and transfer after the scholar returns home are an important scholarship selection criterion. Other admission requirements refer to: age, education, motivation, language, gender, financial resources.

With the support of the Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation, each year 12 scholarships are assigned to students applying for the Master of Nematology.

For more information you can visit the VLIRuos or PINC website!

PINC site News!

I just noticed that the site of PINC (Postgraduate International Nematology Course) has an all new "face".

For those who does not know, PINC is a Master course at Ghent University, Belgium. It is a 2-year programme taught in English. The nematology section at Ghent University is an internationally renowned centre for education and research on nematodes of different groups.

They aim to train people from all over the world into high qualified nematologists taking leading jobs in plant protection, sustainable management of natural resources, biocontrol of crops, biomonitoring and conservation of aquatic and terrestrial environments, and estimating biodiversity.

The Master of Nematology programme includes training and research on the morphology, systematics and biology of plant parasitic, insect parasitic and free-living nematodes. It also covers fundamental as well as applied aspects of Nematology and concerns different groups of nematodes in all possible environments: natural soils, agricultural soils, aquatic sediments of freshwater, brackish or marine habitats, temperate and tropical regions.

Visit the PINC's page here.