François Chung, Ph.D.

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ISO 9001 & ISO 27001

ISO 9001 & ISO 27001

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Advisera training, MOOC (2022). These 2 online courses provide all of the key information needed to know about both ISO 9001 (quality management) and ISO 27001 (information security) standards, including the requirements, best practices for compliance and how to implement them for any type of business. These courses are made for beginners with no prior knowledge in quality management, information security and ISO standards.

ISO 9001: Quality management

Main topics:

  • Introduction to ISO 9001;
  • The planning phase;
  • Operations;
  • The Check and Act phases.

ISO 27001: Information security

Main topics:

  • Introduction to ISO 27001;
  • The planning phase;
  • Risk management;
  • The Do phase;
  • The Check and Act phases.

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PRINCE2 Foundation

PRINCE2 Foundation

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B2B Learning training, Belgium (2018). This 3-day accredited training gives a complete introduction to the PRINCE2 project management method and prepares for the certification exam. PRINCE2 is a method for managing projects in a structured way and provides an easily tailored and scalable method for the management of all types of projects, e.g. with a management by stages, by defining roles and responsibilities, learning from experience and focusing on products.

Module 1: Introduction

Main topics:

  • Features and benefits;
  • Definition and characteristics of a project;
  • Six aspects of project performance;
  • Integrated elements of PRINCE2;
  • Customer/supplier context.

Module 2: PRINCE2 principles

Main topics:

  • Continued business justification;
  • Learn from experience;
  • Defined roles and responsibilities;
  • Manage by stages;
  • Manage by exception;
  • Focus on products;
  • Tailor to suit the project.

Module 3: PRINCE2 themes

Main topics:

  • Business case;
  • Organization;
  • Quality;
  • Plans;
  • Risk;
  • Change;
  • Progress.

Module 4: PRINCE2 processes

Main topics:

  • Starting up a project;
  • Directing a project;
  • Initiating a project;
  • Controlling a stage;
  • Managing product delivery;
  • Managing a stage boundary;
  • Closing a project.

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Certification (PeopleCert)

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APIFRESH

APIFRESH

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Inspiralia project @Madrid, Spain (2013). The competitiveness of the European beekeeping sector is progressively falling due to the reduction of production as a direct consequence of the decrease in bee population. In addition, beekeeping products from countries with lower quality standards are gaining market share in Europe through an unfair competition. Furthermore, there is a lack of standards at European level for certain bee products like pollen and royal jelly.

This means that it is possible to find in the market products under these labels without any control of quality and authenticity. Few countries in Europe have some guidelines or regional standards for products other than honey, which results in a lack of standardization at the European level.

Therefore, the objectives of the APIFRESH project are threefold:

  • to develop European standards for bee pollen and royal jelly;
  • to establish health-relevant criteria for pollen and royal jelly;
  • to determine the authenticity of both pollen and honey.

Partners of this project include:

  • Balparmak (TR);
  • Campomiel (ES);
  • Centro Agrario de Marchamalo (ES);
  • CTC - Centro Tecnológico Nacional de la Conserva y Alimentación (ES);
  • EPBA - European Professional Beekeepers Association (EU);
  • FNAP - Federação Nacional dos Apicultores de Portugal (PT);
  • Inspiralia (ES);
  • OMME - Országos Magyar Méhészeti Egyesület (HU);
  • Parco Tecnologico Padano (IT);
  • TÜBITAK-MAM - Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu-Marmara Araştırma Merkezi (TR).

In this project, my work consists in the development of a software for the bee pollen classification and authentication. In a first step, bee pollen loads captured from a camera are separated by pollen type using a classification based on color. In a second step, a microscope is used to capture an accurate image of pollen grains from which discriminative features are extracted to identify the pollen origin, i.e. by considering the pollen grain as belonging either to a known type (pollen classification) or to an unknown type (outlier detection).

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Related articles

EUE 2017 (book)
COMPAG 2015 (academic journal article)
Micron 2015 (academic journal article)
Inspiralia 2013 (technical report)
Inspiralia 2012 (technical report)

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