The EQAS Accreditation Commission (European Quality Assurance Scheme) has a crucial role in the procedure of awarding the EQAS-Food Label. It consists of ten members of whom seven are academics (covering the different disciplines of Food Science and Technology), two representatives from industry and one student.
Role
The Accreditation Commission reviews requests of HEI for accreditation of degree programmes and decides on the composition of the audit teams. It takes the final decision about the award of the EQAS-Food Label. The Accreditation Commission meets three times a year.
Composition
As per 23 May 2019:
Rui Costa, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal- Chair
Jesus Frias, Technological University Dublin, Ireland – Secretary
Anna McElhatton, University of Malta, Malta
Diego Moreno, CEBAS-CSIC, Spain
Dorota Kriegel, Institute of Fermentation and Microbiology Technology, Poland
Julian Drausinger, ETP Food for Life, Austria
Saverio Mannino, University of Milan, Italy
Winfried Russ, University of Applied Science Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany
More information you will find on the ISEKI-Food Accreditation leaflet.
