Monte Nevado Fatty Pig & Mediterranean Pig Award
Monte Nevado Fatty Pig & Mediterranean Pig Award
Monte Nevado Group is a family-owned company based in Carbonero el Mayor (Segovia, Spain) and dedicated for four generations to the production of Serrano, Mangalica and Iberian ham. The company sells over half a million hams in more than 30 countries, with national facilities in Segovia, La Rioja and Salamanca. Specialized in long-term high-quality fatty ham, Monte Nevado was responsible for recovery of the Mangalica breed in Hungary, which was in a critical danger of extinction in 1990. The company currently owns three farms in Hungary that guarantee the maintenance of such breed.
Monte Nevado is a company strongly devoted to research and development initiatives. For this reason, it has carried out more than 30 R&D projects in recent years and published several scientific papers and books related to the world of dry-cured ham.
- Atlas Monte Nevado de Anatomía del Jamón Serrano
- Ibérico, el origen de un nombre y mucho más
- Tempore Glandis, La Montanera.
Objective of the award
The aim of this initiative is to support and promote basic and applied research connected to ancient pig breeds. In this call, we will particularly consider research focused on genetic breeds preservation, fatty pig reputation, nutrition and any other contribution that is susceptible to improve the sensorial evaluation of the final product.
Required documentation
The following documentation must be sent before September 1st:
- Contact details of the applicants: full name, postal and email address, phone number.
- Abstract PDF version of the poster (see general instructions below and the attach template) may be sent to the following email address: montenevado@montenevado.com
Instructions for manuscripts
The text will be written in English and given in the format given in the attached template, with special attention to figures and tables.
The Abstract will be structured as follows: Introduction, Objectives, Methodology, Results, Conclusions, and References (if its needed).
The maximum length of the manuscript will be 500 words.
Award
Best poster award: 1.000 €.
Deadline
Only abstract submitted until September 1st, 2024, will be accepted.
Communication of the awarded manuscript
The communication will be made during the 7th Fatty Pig & 12th Mediterranean Pig International Meeting, which will take place on the 12-14 of September 2024, in the UVMB (Hungary).
Other remarks to be considered
1.- Call acceptance
Participants of this call are supposed to agree with the current terms and reject to take legal actions against the committee of reviewers. And query about the contest rules will be sent to montenevado@montenevado.com
2.- Claims
No claims upon the selection of the awarded applicants will be accepted
3.- Protection of personal data
The personal data will be voluntarily and strictly provided to the Organizing Committee for further arrangements, thus being the Law of Protection of Personal Data and current regulations of obligatory compliance.
The participants exempt the Organizing Committee from any liability arising from the violation of the current legislation regarding the performance and development of the works awarded.
The applicable legislation to these bases is originally Spanish and, thus, the parties expressly submit the jurisdiction of the Court of the city of Segovia (Spain), waiving any other jurisdiction they may be entitled to.
Manuscript template:
Author1 A.1, Author2 A.2, Author3 A.2, Author4 A.2 (Arial Bold size 11, Centered)
1Institution/Center/Department. Postal Address (Arial size 11 left justified)
2Institution/Center/Department. Postal Address (Arial size 11 left justified)
email@contact.es (Arial size 11 left justified)
Please write the abstract of your communication in Arial 10 font, justified, single-spaced 6. The abstract should contain the introduction, objectives, methodology, results, conclusions, and if applicable, bibliography and acknowledgements. It will have a maximum length of 500 words (not including title, authors and affiliation). It should be saved with the name of the first author (Surname_FirstName.doc).
Abstracts should be sent before September 1, 2024, as an e-mail attachment to montenevado@montenevado.com
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