Professor of Sustainable Food Experiences

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Professor of Sustainable Food Experiences Sintesi in italiano (traduzione automatica): Il Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) cerca un Professore di Esperienze Alimentari Sostenibili (0.6-1 FTE) per promuovere la ricerca e l'educazione nel campo della sostenibilità alimentare. Il ruolo prevede la collaborazione con partner industriali per affrontare le sfide legate ai sistemi alimentari sostenibili. Il professore condurrà ricerche pratiche, svilupperà programmi educativi e supervisionerà studenti, contribuendo a corsi di laurea e master. È richiesta una laurea in un campo pertinente e competenze nella ricerca e nello sviluppo. La posizione è situata nel campus di Breda e offre un salario competitivo, con un focus sull'innovazione e la sostenibilità nel settore dell'ospitalità. As a professor (0.6-1 FTE) at Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas), you will advance research and development (R&D) into and education about making a positive impact in and through the use of sustainable food experiences. This professorship is firmly grounded in practice — developed in close dialogue with industry partners who have confirmed both the urgency and the relevance of the challenges ahead. Take up this challenge from our beautiful campus near the city centre of Breda. About this job As Professor of Sustainable Food Experiences (0.6-1 FTE), your work centres on questions regarding food experiences and sustainable food systems. You explore these questions from a multi-stakeholder perspective, considering the needs of hotel (hospitality) and facility managers, organisations, industry, and the wider community. With your ability to think cross-domain, you work closely with other professors, developing meaningful perspectives on the intersection of hospitality, food systems, experiences, and sustainable food challenges. You lead and design practice-oriented research and development (R&D) on an academic basis, applying various research methodologies including design research. You actively share your knowledge through professional and academic publications, presentations, and work sessions with industry, administrators, and policymakers. You align your R&D lines with BUas-wide R&D themes (Places & Flows, Experiences, Digital Realities, Artificial Intelligence, and Sustainability Transitions) and you drive external funding acquisition in close collaboration with industry partners. You mentor the colleagues who contribute to the professorship, fostering a collaborative environment that advances a practice-based R&D agenda. You ensure that R&D contributions feed directly into professional and academic education programmes. You contribute to and deliver education across bachelor’s and master’s programmes, minors, and electives, ranging from individual classes to broader curriculum development. You also support students through guest appearances and thesis supervision. Teaching and educational development account for approximately 40% of your time. Your professorship is developed in close collaboration with the Academy for Hotel & Facility (AHF), whose colleagues bring domain expertise and connect R&D to professional practice. You are part of the BUas R&D and Graduate School (RGS), where you collaborate with professors from across the university. Your line manager is the Director of Research and Development. BUas and R&D BUas is taking R&D to the next level. R&D at BUas contributes to a better understanding of, and solutions to, the problems we are facing in society. We strive for dynamic synergies between R&D, education, and society. We consider R&D and education to be equally important and mutually reinforcing functions that, when combined, contribute to the innovative capacity of companies and organisations. In this process, our focus is on demonstrating social awareness in action and contributing to a better world. BUas believes in an interconnected world which is ever-changing. Within this dynamic, interconnecting environment we empower young professionals on their journey to shape a better world. We offer our students plenty of opportunities to create meaningful experiences and pursue their dreams in a small-scale and international study environment, for example starting their own enterprise, starting to work in a national and international organisation or developing an innovative product or concept. Students, lecturers, and researchers work together in our national and international learning communities on meaningful knowledge, research, and projects alongside global industry professionals. BUas is committed to educating for and in a continuously changing world. What do we offer? The salary for this position amounts to a monthly minimum of €7,357.11 and a monthly maximum of €9,544.16 (gross amounts based on full-ti Annuncio in inglese. Fonte: Euraxess (Commissione europea).