At HAS green academy, 13 professors and approximately 75 lecturer-researchers work within 12 professorships. They collaborate with students, lecturers and professionals from the field on practical research programmes, both in the Netherlands and abroad.
Professorships are knowledge groups at universities of applied sciences, that establish connections between education, professional practice and applied research in areas of social relevance. A professorship consists of a professor and knowledge circle consisting of lecturer-researchers and support staff.
The Healthy Farming professorship will conduct research into the problems caused by animal husbandry and stirs up the dialogue between market, researcher and consumer. The aim is taking new steps towards the animal husbandry of the future.
The Business Models for Regenerative Agriculture professorship focuses on how new opportunities can arise for nature-inclusive business operators in an alternative interaction between farmers, society and government. It is also looking at how a business model with sufficient earning potential can be created for farmers who want to work on nature-inclusive agriculture.
The Precision Livestock Farming professorship wants to facilitate smart farming and the use data for more precise operational management. The research group also looks to other industries for inspiration.
The Future Food Systems professorship is working on intervention strategies and new business models that accelerate the transition to sustainable food systems. In this way, we contribute to the impact on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, nationally and internationally.
The power of living soil! professorship focusses on the interaction between plant and soil, with the main focus on the interaction between soil biology and the plant, and how this interaction can be used to make the soil healthier and more sustainable.
A healthy food environment and making healthy food choices is at the heart of the Food & Health professorship. The professorship focuses on 2 issues: the composition of the product and what you can say about it in your communication & marketing.
The Food Design Methods professorship conducts research into design methods that can be used in further education, and which result in new designs for healthy and sustainable food choice behaviour. These are things like food products, packaging and communications, but also entirely new food environments and food systems.
The Food Production in a Circular Economy professorship wants to facilitate businesses in the agri-food sector in producing with minimum impact on the environment while making the most efficient use of natural resources. This is mainly done by closing loops and making production processes more sustainable.
The Protein Transition in Food professorship wants to contribute to the protein transition in the Netherlands and beyond. The focus is on the application of plant-based proteins like legumes, and the exploration of alternative proteins such as cellular agriculture and insects.
The Green Health professorship has as objective knowledge development and knowledge dissemination on increasing fruit and vegetable consumption, the health of Dutch consumers and the sustainability of Dutch society.
The Climate-robust Landscapes: 'connecting agriculture and nature' professorship is focusing on the question how other forms of agriculture can contribute to improving water quality and stimulating biodiversity through smart use of the landscape.
As the name suggests, the aim of the Innovative Bio-Monitoring professorship is to apply innovative bio-monitoring techniques – like automatic image and sound recognition - to concrete social issues. The goal is to contribute to protecting and maintaining our biodiversity.
