The life of a project
The Danish Dairy Research Foundation ensures a successful collaboration between the researchers and the business throughout the project.
By: Grith Mortensen
Project management is alpha and omega
The projects are initiated when they have been financed and a cooperation agreement has been drawn up.
A typical year will look like this:
The Danish Dairy Research Foundation has prepared a project guide that outlines how the research projects can best be run.
The guide is intended to help the project manager and participants when there is uncertainty about the guidelines, which can also be found in the project’s cooperation agreement. The main lines are described in the existing guide, and you can always contact the secretariat if in doubt.
Find the project guide here
The coordination groups are a forum for professional discussions
The Danish Dairy Research Foundation closely follows projects through participation in two cross-sectional, academic coordination groups that cover all the research projects in the Danish Dairy Research Foundation. The coordination groups consist of dairy representatives and researchers. At the biannual coordination meetings, project results and plans are discussed, and the coordination groups ensure interaction between the individual projects.
The coordination groups are at the core of the foundation's work. It is here that knowledge and experience are exchanged between researchers as well as between researchers and dairy professionals.
The two coordination groups are led by representatives from the dairies:
– Technology & Food safety: Former CEO Poul J. Pedersen, Thise Mejeri
– Health & nutrition: Senior Executive R&D Advisor Henrik J. Andersen, Arla Foods
Poul J. Pedersen, Thise Mejeri
Chairman for the coordination group, Technology & Food Safety
Henrik J. Andersen, Arla Foods
Chairman for the coordination group, Health & Nutrition