Do you want to contribute to a more transparent and sustainable food sector in Europe? Do you want to start your academic career in business science?We offer a PhD candidate position for an ambitious and high-potential scholar who seeks to understand how ecologically-resilient dynamics in the European food system can be achieved.
Business Management & Organisation (BMO) group of Wageningen University (WU) is excited to be involved in a new Horizon Europe project comprising 19 partners from various EU countries. The objective of the project is to develop a real-time surveillance system, which functions as a necessary source of information for various stakeholders, provides real-time assessments for the food system, and updates forecasts frequently and consistently. The 4-year project has a strong multidisciplinary character with a mix of universities, research institutes, consultancies, companies in the agri-food sector and NGOs.
You will carry out an important part of the BMO-work in this project. More specifically, your work includes the following tasks:
- develop conceptualizations and select research designs;
- collect empirical data using qualitative and quantitative methods and analyse the data;
- conduct an in-depth stakeholder analysis and develop strategies to engage stakeholders;
- develop a value co-creation framework for the sustainability data service network of the surveillance system;
- develop an innovative business model prototype that allows for multilevel value co-creation within the sustainability data service network of the surveillance system;
You are going to work at the greenest and most innovative campus in Holland, and at a university that has been chosen as the "
Best University " in the Netherlands for the 17th consecutive time.