The Vetmeduni Vienna Summer School “Nutrition and Animal Gut Health” is a unique
event for everyone interested in nutrition and gastrointestinal health in farm animals.
The philosophy of this summer school is to provide hands-on training in the areas of
nutrition and gastrointestinal functional health to enable participants to directly apply
what they have learned to their individual filds of work.
This summer school targets the interface of nutrition and gut health to provide the participants with deeper insights into the critical role of nutrition in digestive physiology,
gut function and animal health.
By combining theory, group discussions, and hands-on training, this course will promote critical thinking and develop the problem-solving skills in the fild of animal gut
health and nutrition.
Participants will also be exposed to current practices of animal industries regarding
modulation of animal gut health. This summer school will be supported by BIOMIN, a
global leader in developing natural feed additives.

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Kangwon National University South Korea and Universitas Gadjah Mada Indonesia have been being sister university since several years ago. The cooperation between these two sister universities is not only about the formal education, but also about the community development. Calsis Global Leadership Program is one of our annual programs which are jointly organized by these two universities as the real action of its cooperation.

This year this program was held on January 7-17, 2016, attended by 20 students and 2 lecturers from KNU, and 22 students and 4 lecturers from UGM. The program was held in Gunung Kidul district. The aim of this program is to help the Indonesian local farmer to provide a supportive environment for their livestock (in this case is goats) by constructing a proper pen for them. The pen construction was done for two different farmer groups in two different places, which were in Panggang and in Tepus village. In the implementation, this program went smoothly as it wished, even though there was a few simple obstacles appeared. But thankfully, this program can be done perfectly.

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