MIV innovation prize to Nieberg
The German Dairy Industry Association (MIV) has awarded its Milk Scientific Innovation Prize 2017 to Professor Hiltrud Nieberg of the Thünen Institute for Business Administration.
The prize stands for innovative milk-specific and practical services from the various scientific areas around milk. This year the choice fell on a scientist who has made a contribution to dairy science for a long time.
“Awarding the Milk Scientific Innovation Award 2017 to Prof. Dr. Hiltrud Nieberg from the Thünen Institute for Business Administration, the companies of the Dairy Industry Association honour her scientific achievements. We thank her for the practical impulses in the pilot project ‘Milk Sustainability Module’ that gave the necessary advancement of agriculture on a scientific level while keeping an eye on the expectations of our customers,” says Hans Holtorf, deputy chairman of the Dairy Industry Association and chairman of the Quality Working Group and product safety at MIV.
The €10,000 prize can be awarded annually to people who are significantly involved in milk-specific research and science. This can range from the natural sciences to law and economics. Crucial is the particular practical relevance and importance for dairies and dairy science.
Dr Nieberg has been the director of the Institute for Business Administration at the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute in Braunschweig since 2010. In her 25 years at the institute, she has worked on a wide range of business and agricultural policy topics. Important work priorities in recent years have been agro-environmental policy and the economics of organic farming.
The institute focuses on the effects of changing technical, economic, social and political conditions on farms and international competitiveness. This includes the topic of sustainability with structural change, environmental effects and animal welfare. The research results of the institute serve primarily for scientific advice of the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, to which Dr Nieberg was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board in 2012.
She is responsible for the project management of the three-year pilot project, the Milk Sustainability Module. The compulsory and balancing, but at the same time consistent and goal-oriented nature of Dr Nieberg as well as her broad expertise in the field of sustainability, was very helpful during development of the sustainability module, the organisers say.
She also now has been named as a new member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the MIV.
