CSC Dairy Scholarship Program

The China Scholarship Council (CSC) has granted the Sino-Dutch Doctoral Program on Sustainable Dairy through China Agricultural University (CAU). The University of Groningen and the Wageningen University are academic counterparts in The Netherlands, the Royal FrieslandCampina participates as the industrial partner and the Groningen Carbohydrate Competence Centre (CCC)  as knowledge partner.

The total grant is EUR 1.9 million. The Carbohydrate Competence Center will co-ordinate the program, together with the Energy Academy Europe (EAE). The program will provide 30 scholarships in total: 10 scholarships for Chinese PhD students each year to study the dairy-related issues in the Netherlands and run for 3 years in the first phase (2015-2017).