WUR – SLU route
First year university: Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Second year university: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
First year in Wageningen
- Welcome Course and orientation week (2 weeks in August, no credits)
- Animal breeding and genetics (6 ECTS)
- Advanced statistics (6 ECTS)
- Genetic improvement of livestock (6 ECTS)
- Genomics (6 ECTS)
- Breeding lab (6 ECTS)
- Master thesis (30 ECTS)
Second year in Uppsala
- Animal Genetics – health, behavior and welfare (15 ECTS)
- Elective course (15 ECTS) – The transversal project on Sustainable development goals is already incorporated here
- Second Master thesis (30 ECTS)
UGOE – SLU route
First year university: University of Göttingen, Germany
Second year university: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
First year in Göttingen
Compulsory courses (33 ECTS)
1. Welcome Course and orientation week (2 weeks in August, no credits)
2. Quantitative genetics and population genetics (6 ECTS)
3. Biotechnology and molecular genetics in plant and animal breeding (6 ECTS)
4. Selection theory, design and optimization of breeding programs (6 ECTS)
5. Breeding schemes and programs in animal breeding (3 ECTS)
6. Internship Animal Breeding (6 ECTS)
7. Breeding Lab (6 ECTS)
Compulsory elective courses (should choose at least two with minimum of 9 ECTS, and fill up to 60 ECTS with elective courses)
1. Statistical genetics, breeding informatics and experimental design (6 ECTS)
2. Legal issues in plant and animal breeding (3 ECTS)
3. Data Analysis with R (3 ECTS)
4. Socioeconomics of rural development and food security (6 ECTS)
Or
Microeconomic Theory of Agricultural Production (6 ECTS)
5. Programming with R (3 ECTS)
Second year in Uppsala
- Animal Genetics – health, behavior and welfare (15 ECTS)
- Elective course (15 ECTS) – The transversal project on Sustainable development goals is already incorporated here
- Master thesis (30 ECTS)