Letters / Motivation Letter for Turkiye Burslari Scholarship - Food engineering [3]

I'm going to apply for a food engineering major. If you can give any comments, advice, or critics to help me improve my essays, I'm really grateful.

Motivation Letter

Food engineering was not my thing back then. But it got a fresh impetus during my final year in high school, as my interest in the food industry increased. The job prospect in this industry looks promising, and the subjects studied also match my interests.

During the semester-end holidays, I had the opportunity to channel this interest by taking several online courses. Introduction to Food Science by Queen's University Belfast and EIT Food was my favorite. This course gave me a basic understanding of what I would learn in a food science major, the parent of food engineering.

Food engineering itself is a relatively new discipline. It started as a response to the social changes in developed countries. That is why I believe Turkey as a developed country will provide me with adequate resources to study food engineering.

A multicultural environment in Turkey will also give me the various types of colleagues and build me to be a person with good tolerance and high sociality, skills that I need for a global world.

My home country is a country blessed with food wealth. But ironically, in 2017, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released data that Indonesia was ranked second after Saudi Arabia as the world's largest producer of food waste. The results of another study stated that Indonesia's food loss and food waste reached 184 kg per person per year or a total of 48 million tons in a year. The amount of wasted food is equivalent to providing food for 125 million people to alleviate poverty and tackle stunting in Indonesia.

Not only a problem with food waste, but food engineering itself also has a problem. It harms the environment, the opposite of the goal of food engineering itself, which is to create a sustainable food chain. It also produces large quantities of emission gas and pollutes water and air.

That is why reflecting on the two phenomena above, my future goal is to bridge all of this food waste to create healthier food products for society, as well as provide solutions for a sustainable food system. To make this come true, I need sufficient knowledge and experience in the related field. I want to continue my studies to graduate school and conduct further research on the related topic.

After returning to my home country, I plan to join a non-governmental organization and hopefully launch a startup that will help address local problems.

Food engineering is a lot more than getting a degree. It is a positive attitude to sustain and improve food sustainability. So, once I have got this attitude, the next thing I need to do is to equip myself with the degree program in food engineering to help me explore better ways to enhance food availability, abundance, and nutritional value. Getting a scholarship will help me in my studies because I don't have to worry about tuition fees. That way, I can focus on studying, graduate on time, and realize my goals more quickly.