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04 Sep 2025

Valio's chief innovation officer and UCC graduate, Dr Kevin Deegan, joins Bobby Kerr to chat about the business ahead of his contribution to the Agricultural Science Association Annual Conference being held in Cork on 4th September 2025.

Bobby Kerr's business programme on Newstalk radio covers all enterprise-related topics from personal finance to business news. In this episode, Valio's chief innovation officer and UCC graduate, Dr Kevin Deegan, joins Bobby to chat about the business about the business and why the death of dairy has been overstated. Click the link below to listen to Kevin and Bobby discuss everything from being a love refugee in Finland, to dairy markets, innovation, plant-based foods, through to saunas. Valio is Finland’s biggest food exporter, which brands itself as “the most innovative dairy and food company in the world”. Many years ago, a Valio employee won a Nobel Prize for figuring out how grass can be converted to silage using LAB fermentation. The School of Food and Nutritional Sciences in UCC have had several research interactions with Valio over the years, most recently in the form of a PhD project led by 3 in house academics.     
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Guest speaker - Dan Mac Sweeney (former CEO of Carbery Group and former chairman of the board of Bord Bia) - addressing the participants on July 9th.
09 Jul 2025

FITU Welcomes ‘Diploma in Corporate Direction (Food Business)’ to UCC Campus

The Food Industry Training Unit UCC and ICOS Skillnet were delighted to welcome participants of the Diploma in Corporate Direction (Food Business) to UCC Campus on July 8th & 9th 2025.
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05 Jun 2025

FITU Welcomes Class of 2025 - Diploma in Corporate Direction (Food Business)

The Food Industry Training Unit UCC and ICOS Skillnet are delighted to welcome another cohort of co-operative board member participants onto the Diploma in Corporate Direction (Food Business) for 2025-26. 
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02 May 2025

60 Years of Dairy Science: A Symposium in Honour of the Late Professor P.F. Fox Friday 16th of May Aula Maxima University College Cork

On 16th May 2025, University College Cork will host a very special one-day Symposium in honour of the late Professor Patrick (PF) Fox, who passed away in July 2024. Professor Fox’s scientific contributions to dairy science and technology, especially in dairy chemistry, and cheese ripening, are known the world over. Today, his former students and collaborators carry on his legacy in their research at prestigious universities and institutes and in the dairy industry around the world. 
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