Organisation

The Centre for Sustainable Agrifood Systems (START) is a science-driven, academic and multi-disciplinary research community that enables basic research collaboration within the field of sustainable Agrifood Systems. The community comprises a joint effort by researchers from the united Danish universities.

Collaboration between the united Danish Universities

START was founded by the united Danish Universities giving the centre a national scope and access to laboratories throughout the country. These universities include:

• Aarhus University (AU)
• Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
• University of Copenhagen (KU)
• Aalborg University (AAU)
• Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
• IT University of Copenhagen (ITU)
• Roskilde University (RUC)
• University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Distributed Governance Model

START is based on a distributed governance model operated by the START Steering Committee under a rotation chair principal. This means that START is organisationally decentralised and that the position of Chair of the Steering Committee rotates between the universities.

START is managed by a joint administrative support team with local administrative support at the individual university. The main secretariat is orchestrated from Aarhus University yet START is managed by a joint administrative support team with local administrative support at the individual university.