The Dairy Academy 2024 – A ‘European Excellence in Dairy Learning’ (AEDIL Dairy CoVE) event

The Dairy Academy 2024, an event held as a part of the EU Erasmus+ project ‘European Excellence in Dairy Learning’ (AEDIL Dairy CoVE), gathered 40 early career researchers with different backgrounds and from different career levels at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark on 24–28 June 2024. In the mornings, the participants engaged in interactive training sessions under the theme ‘Future Dairy Processing Challenges’, while in the afternoons, the online Dairy Science and Technology Symposium could be joined by everyone interested worldwide. On several evenings, social and networking events were offered to the participants. The event received highly positive feedback from the attendees and will be repeated with a new programme at the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece in 2025. The aim of this report is to provide a detailed summary of the summer school and symposium contents as well as an excerpt of the course evaluation to promote the upcoming Dairy Academies and inspire and guide future learning events and conferences.