Simultaneously to the primary task the modern European consumer requests secured food safety, wider selection of high quality and healthy products and also “an open window” to the food production chain and its individual parts. On the other hand human responsibility and liberation of global trade brings more multilateral trade and product exchange between Europe and rest of the world. Also improvements in the welfare of farmers and employees as well as in the conditions of farm animals are a self evident part of the development.

For new and challenging developments Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering can actively, with a specialist view, participate and organise co-engineering between traditionally to agriculture and food production linked sciences and speciality areas like molecular genetic sciences or micro- and nanosciences.