Working Group No. 2 - Nutrition
Working Group 2 (Nutrition) is made up of 29 members from 16 Branches of the European Federation. It meets annually and its main function is to set up the meetings held every two years under the title ‘European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition’. So far, 17 Symposia have been organised, at the following venues:
| 1st | 1977 | Elsinore, Denmark |
| 2nd | 1979 | Beekbergen, The Netherlands |
| 3rd | 1981 | Peebles, United Kingdom |
| 4th | 1983 | Tours, France |
| 5th | 1985 | Jerusalem, Israel |
| 6th | 1987 | Konigslutter, Germany |
| 7th | 1989 | Lloret de Mar, Spain |
| 8th | 1991 | Mestre-Venice, Italy |
| 9th | 1993 | Jelenia Gora, Poland |
| 10th | 1995 | Antalya, Turkey |
| 11th | 1997 | Faaborg, Denmark |
| 12th | 1999 | Veldhoven, The Netherlands |
| 13th | 2001 | Belgium |
| 14th | 2003 | Lillehammer, Norway |
| 15th | 2005 | Balatonfured, Hungary |
| 16th | 2007 | Strasbourg, France |
| 17th | 2009 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| 18th | 2011 | Çesme, Turkey |
The 18th Symposium will be held in Çesme, Turkey on 31 October - 4 November 2011.
These Symposia have a novel format. Each session starts with several plenary presentations, the delegates then discuss these papers in small groups and then reassemble for a final plenary session where the papers are discussed along with comments from the speakers. These Symposia thus demand a lot of effort from the delegates but are very popular and attract a large audience from all around the world. This Symposia series can increasingly be considered to be the major poultry nutrition forum on a world basis.
The Working Group also publishes on an occasional basis information of interest to poultry nutritionists.
For more information on the Working Group and its activities, contact the Chairman:
Dr S. Steenfeldt
Landevejen 225
Hadbjerg
8370 Hadsten
Denmark
E-mail: sanna.steenfeldt@agrsci.dk