10 June 2020
The overall objective of Stance4Health is to develop a complete Smart Personalised Nutrition service for optimizing the gut microbiota activity and long-term consumer engagement through the use of mobile technologies and tailored food production.
18 March 2020
Food processing in a Box is a project that aims to transform large-scale technologies for the processing of fruits and vegetables, to small, flexible and mobile units.
04 March 2020
Microalgae have been pointed as one of the most promising candidates to face future challenges, due to the high potential of their nutritional value and environmental footprint.
30 July 2019
Discover how Eating the Gap addresses the challenges our food system is facing and how we can motivate people to live and eat more healthily and sustainably.
07 June 2019
Is your diet healthy? Try and see it yourself with Games of Food, an educational escape game for all ages. Learning about balanced eating was never more fun!
21 May 2019
Microbiome research is hampered due to contradictory results, unaligned methods and resource duplication. Discover how MicrobiomeSupport aims to solve this.
20 May 2019
The Future Kitchen project aims to use virtual reality to teach young generations about new food technology and how innovation is impacting our food habits.
20 May 2019
EIT Food is Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, working to make the food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted.
08 April 2019
Discover how the H2020 project SMARTCHAIN aims to foster and accelerate the shift toward collaborative short food supply chains in Europe.
18 December 2018
The project CIRCLES kick-offs in Bologna, Italy and aims to enhance the sustainability of our food systems and health by unleashing the microbiomes potential.
22 August 2018
YPACK will develop bio-degradable and recyclable food packaging based on PHA to reduce food waste, extend food shelf life and thereby reduce the environmental footprint of packaging materials.
22 August 2018
FIT4FOOD2030 supports the development and implementation of the European Commission’s FOOD 2030 initiative – to find research and innovation solutions to the challenges facing our food systems, such as obesity, malnutrition, hunger, climate change, scarce resources, and waste through research and innovation.
18 September 2017
RefuCoat will demonstrate solutions for improving the shelf-life of fresh food produce with the use of active substances in films and trays, and will help to reduce landfill waste.
28 February 2017
NanoPack will demonstrate a solution for extending food shelf life by using novel smart antimicrobial surfaces, applied in active food packaging products.
28 February 2017
The objective of OLEUM is to better guarantee olive oil quality and authenticity by empowering detection and fostering prevention of olive oil fraud. Improvements in the quality, safety and authenticity of olive oils will boost consumer confidence and ultimately enhance the competitiveness of the EU olive oil market.
17 January 2017
The NanoPack project aims to develop and demonstrate state-of-the-art antimicrobial packaging solutions for perishable foods based on natural nanomaterials that will prevent food-borne illness outbreaks and reduce food waste.
01 December 2016
A leading partnership will drive a transformation towards a consumer-centric and resource-efficient food sector.
08 March 2016
Recently in the European Union, EU quality policy and Public Sector Food Procurement have witnessed reforms to protect quality logos and to take into account environmental, social and innovation-based criteria when awarding the public sector contracts to procurers and suppliers.
01 October 2015
Making “the healthy choice the easy choice” requires knowledge about our dietary habits. This knowledge comes from analysing different types of information such as: What food and drinks are we buying, preparing and eating? Where? Why? How? With whom? In what social and physical context?
01 March 2015
The United Nations believe that the world’s population will rise to 9.7 billion by the year 2050. As the population increases so does the demand for high quality protein rich food sources. Led by the University of Copenhagen...
01 December 2013
To date, the lack of general understanding of how the human gut microbiome and its interaction with lifestyle factors contribute to our health and wellbeing is common amongst nutritionists, dietitians, the public and policymakers – including those involved in establishing dietary guidelines.
01 December 2013
The European aquaculture industry has the potential to be a competitive player in the European and global seafood market. However, the sector faces several challenges, including strong competition by foreign imports, a variety of biological bottlenecks that impact the production of fish species and a poor perception of aquaculture-derived products amongst European consumers.