About Advanced Training Partnerships

• Advanced Training Partnerships are formal collaborations between users and providers of high-level skills in the agri-food sector, bringing together companies with research and training organisations.
• BBSRC have funded four partnerships with each one operating under the leadership of an academic institution. Each partnership will focus on a particular research area, and the four are complementary, covering the full range of food production from soil to plate.
• The AATP is led by the University of Nottingham in partnership with Cranfield University, Harper Adams University College and Rothamsted Research.
• The complementary research and skills within the partnership allows us to offer training spanning the entire agri-food supply chain from one day workshops through to postgraduate awards (e.g. MSc, PhD).
• During the first five years of the partnership, fee bursaries will be available for participants currently employed in the agri-food sector.
• The training courses will be developed in consultation with industry who are represented both at Management Board and within our Training Subgroups.

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How can the AATP help my employees and business?

• Provide higher level training (Masters Level)
• Collaborative courses between highly respected institutions and industry
• Provide funding through fee bursaries for participants

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What courses are offered at Harper Adams?

Crop Production and Protection

• BASIS Advanced Crop Protection (in collaboration with Rothamsted)
• Potato Production
• Soil and Water Management

Agri-Food

• Meat Business Management Postgraduate Certificate

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