The possibility of Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) has been stimulated since the start of the COST Action Feed for Health in December 2008. Now three years later 25 mainly young researchers have applied for a STSM. An overview of all applications and their status is given below. Interest in a STSM? Click here for more details about how to apply.

Name	Name institute	Host institute	Subject – WG	Application status	Period STSM
Themis Altintzouglu	Nofima, Norway	UGhent, Belgium	Collaborative academic writing consumer papers WG4	Reported	June 2009
Alba Tres	University of Barcelona, Spain	RIKILT, The Netherlands	Feeding Fat Authentication WG2-3	Reported	November 2009
Giuseppina Amato	Center for the Surveillance Monitoring of Animal feed, Italy	Walloon Agricultural Research Centre, Belgium	Infrared spectroscopy and chemometric applications on animal proteins WG2	Reported	March 2010
Georgios Theodorou	Agricultural University of Athens, Greece	University of Milan, Italy	Effect of various nutrients on expression of plasminogen activator related genes in adipocytes WG1	Reported	May 2010
Ekaterina Vachkova	Trakia University, Bulgaria	University of Bern, Switzerland	The IGF-1 and their binding proteins distribution in different fractions of the first colostrums WG1	Reported	May 2010
Alba Tres	RIKIL , The Netherlands	University of Cordoba, Spain	Authentication of organic feeds using NIR WG3	Reported	October 2010
Doreen Gille	Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux ALP, Switzerland	Nofima, Norway	Health consciousness in the ageing Swiss population WG4	Reported	January 2011
Eleonora Fusi	University Milan, Italy	Institute of Animal Nutrition, Germany	Effect of nutrients and nutraceuticals on the development of intestinal tract and immune response WG1	Reported	January 2011
Tiia Ariko	Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia	Ghent University, Belgium	Joint research on odd- and branched-chain fatty acid profiles in milk WG1	Reported	January 2011
Luciano Pinotti	University of Milan, Italy	University College of London, UK	Constituents of animal origin characterization in feedstuffs: study of the appropriate statistical WG2	Reported	February 2011
Nicoleta Daniela Frunza	University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Romania	University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Italy	Evaluating the quality of compound feed for broiler chickens WG2	Not granted	February 2011
Joaquín Miguel Castro Montoya	Ghent University, Belgium	Animal Nutrition Group, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands	In vitro gas production technique (GPT) and the simultaneous determination of methane production	Reported	February 2011
Tamara Frankic	University of Ljubljana, Slovenia	University of Edinburg, UK	Bioinformatics of gene expression data of chickens exposed to oxidative stress WG1	Reported	April 2011
Kirsty Kliem	University of Reading, UK	MTT Agrifood Research, Finland	Identification and quantification of trans fatty acids in ruminant-derived foods WG1	Reported	March 2011
Katherine Livingstone	University of Reading, UK	MTT Agrifood Research, Finland	Identification and quantification of trans fatty acids in ruminant-derived foods WG1	Reported	March 2011
Irene Mueller-Harvey	University of Reading. UK	INRA-IHAP, ENVT, France	Unravelling the anthelmintic modes of action of plant tannins to improve animal health	Reported	May 2011
Silvia Ampuero Kragten	Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux Research Station, Switzerland	University of Córdoba, Spain	Collaborative Study on NIRS Prediction of Ingredient Composition in Compound Feeding stuffs	Reported	September 2011
Eleonora Fusi	University Milan, Italy	Breeding and Sports Medicine, Alfort, France	Nutrition, health and ageing in animals	Reported	October 2011
Hasliza Abu Hassim	Ghent University Belgium	Research Centre of Animal and Vet Science, Portugal	Optimization protocol fro enzymic extracts from white rot fungi	Reported	November December 2011
Ana Belen Soldado	Regional Institute for research and Agrofood development, Spain	University Collegue of London, UK	NIR spectroscopy:  A strategy for the value-enhancement of production	Reported	December 2011
Jaak Samarütel	University of Life Sciences, Estonia	University of Bern, Switzerland	The time course of formation of different colostrum components and their regulation	-	January-February 2012
Dr Anjo Elgersma	Independent scientist, Wageningen, The Netherlands	Aarhus University, Denmark	Write joint publications on feed value, vitamins in forage and discuss progress on lipid analyses	Reported	January-February 2012
Gina Cecilia Pistol	National Research-Development Institute for Animal Biology and Nutrition, Romania	Vetsuisse Faculty University of Bern, Switzerland	Study of mycotoxins effects on mechanisms of IgG transfer around parturition in dairy cattle	-	February-March 2012
Eva Skrivanova	Institute of Animal Science,Prague, Czech	University of Milan, Italy	In vitro methods used to screen uptake and activity of bioactive compounds in animal nutrition	-	February-March 2012
Ana Ramalho	Centre of Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal	Nofima, Norway	Fish consumption questionnaire analysis and scientific publication	-	February-March 2012
Cheila Almeida	Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon, Portugal	Nofima, Norway	Consumer perception of seafood in Portugal –WG4	-	March 2012
Lulia Maros	National Research Development Institute for Animal Biology and Nutrition, Romenia	Wageningen UR	lon chromatographic analysis of amino acids, DAPA and available lysine	-	March 2012