The Graduate School VLAG was founded in 1993 to provide a coherent PhD programme for young researchers and to bring together the expertise in its multidisciplinary domain. VLAG forms a community of research within the Biobased, Biomolecular, Food and Nutrition Sciences. VLAG consists of the researchers and research groups from Wageningen University (WU) and five major institutes for applied research in The Netherlands: NIZO food research, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), TNO, Food & Biobased Research* and RIKILT* (*part of Wageningen University & Research).