To strengthen the competences in scientific activities of the project partners, the training and exchange program was developed at the beginning of the project and is continuously updated according to the research needs of each partner to reach a maximal gain in an expertise improvement.

Acquirement of new knowledge and enhancement of attendees´ competence(s) in the specific research area will lead to improving the competition of the trainees on the job market in both research and business areas and will help the participants to realize their own research ideas in the future.

Topics of delivered trainings:

• Marine bioprospecting and bioactive compounds for health
• The use of ion mobility for separation of mycotoxins
• Application of ion mobility in food analysis
• Pesticide residues analysis
• Rapid evaporative ionisation mass spectrometry (REIMS)
• Advanced mass spectrometric techniques in the analysis of emerging anabolic drugs in sports and food producing animals
• Application of metabolomics in food / feed analysis
• Untargeted metabolomic analysis of chicken samples using the DART-HRMS
• Microcystin-LR metabolomics
• Plant metabolomics
• Toxicity testing
• High Content Analysis
• Application of infrared spectroscopy for food authentication
• Analysis of bio-hazards in foods
• Scientific writing
• ISO accreditation process

TRAINING SCHOOLS

"Mycotoxin Summer Academy"
4-15 July 2016, BOKU/IFA-Tulln, Austria
Program of the training school

"Challenges in food and feed safety research: Advanced analytical strategies for various analyte/matrix combinations for food and feed safety assessment and cumulative risk assessment of food and feed toxicants" 27-29 November 2018, Prague, Czech Republic

Program of the training school
Presentations:
Overview of advanced instrumental techniques employed in food and feed analysis
Vit Kosek, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic

Metabolomic fingerprinting for food authentication
Jana Hajslova, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic

Food fingerprinting to fight fraud
Chris Elliott, Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom

High content analysis
Julie Meneely, Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom

International collaborations: the key to detect, control and reduce mycotoxins in the food chain
Rudi Krska, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Detection and elimination strategies of matrix effects in quantitative multi-target LC-ESI-MS/MS analysis
David Steiner, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

TRAINING WORKSHOPS

1. (i) "Food Integrity: Defining and Understanding the Challenges" organized by QUB in Belfast, UK from 13-14 February 2018
2. (ii) "Detection, control and reduction of chemical contaminants along the food chain" organized by BOKU in Tulln, Austria on 6 July 2018
3. (iii) "Support of young scientists in their research project proposals ideas" organized by VSCHT in Prague, Czech Republic on 26 November 2018