Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

ILSI Europe hosts, sponsors, and co-organises a variety of scientific events. These include independent symposia, workshops, webinars, hands-on scientific trainings and sessions held as part of the program of larger scientific conferences or professional meetings.

Discover below the upcoming events we are organising or participating in.

Upcoming Events

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About the event

CATALYSE is a Horizon Europe project aiming to promote the implementation of new innovative solutions for food safety to solve the real needs of end-users in the food supply chain. From health, to food, to the environment, microbes have a role, and we highlight and celebrate that on International Microorganism Day on 17th September each year. CATALYSE partners take this as an opportunity to organize an interactive webinar session during this period focusing on food safety in regard to microbiology and innovations. This webinar brings together Industry, Academia and Public authorities to discuss on critical food safety issues and priorities.

Registration

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About the event

NutrEvent is back for its 10th edition! ILSI Europe, as an event's partner, will participate with a booth 

NutrEvent is the first European partnering event dedicated to to innovation in Food, Human and Animal Nutrition. It aims at identifying industrial, scientific, commercial and financial partners for your innovation projects and innovations.

The conference gathers more than 600 international actors: Food, feed, clinical nutrition, food supplement, pharmaceutical industries and distributors, innovative ingredient and process suppliers, academic institutions, technology transfer organisations, research institutes, R&D services and consulting firms and investors.

Registration

Contact us at events@ilsieurope.be to get a 20% discount !

Contact

Website: www.nutrevent.com

Email: cfillon@eurasante.com

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About the event

The Synergy Days is the most important conference connecting the digital innovators of the European agri-food sector. ​

Building onto the legacy of the SmartAgriHubs project, for 3 years in a roll, the event offers a space for our community to meet, debate and exchange knowledge. We connect the dots in the agri-food sector by bringing together ​EU projects, policy-makers, European and Digital Innovations Hubs, farmers and more.

You can expect two action-packed days of crucial discussions, workshops, live demonstrations, EU project pitches, designed to create more networking connections than ever before.​

This year's edition will also feature a parallel event focused on the work of European Digital Innovation Hubs.

Registration

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About the event

The 38th EFFoST International Conference will be hosted by KU Leuven and UGent and will be held in the city of Bruges in Belgium. The EFFoST2024 conference will explore the theme "Future Food Systems: Innovation through Progress at Scientific Interfaces". We look forward to welcoming you in the city of Bruges, from 12-14 November 2024.

EFFoST2024 embraces the quintuple innovation helix framework, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration in the food sector. Our mission is to advance the global goal of providing safe, nutritious, and sustainable food with broad consumer acceptance, aligning with the 'one health' concept defined by WHO.

Discover the pinnacle of food science and technology at the annual EFFoST conference. Join global experts, scientists, industry leaders, policymakers, and students from diverse food-related fields.

Further information

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About the event

In collaboration with DTU Skylab from Denmark Technical University, ILSI Europe is organising an event for Early Career Scientists (ECS) focussed on sustainable food systems. The event offers a great opportunity for young scientists to present their work, network and expand their knowledge about important topics related to food sustainability. It is also offers a chance for industry and academic experts to discover a new pool of talent and gain a fresh point of view on the research this area.

If you are an Early Career Scientist (student, PhD candidate, or practising scientist who received their highest certificate (e.g. BSc, MSc or PhD) within the past ten years) and work within this nexus, we would like to hear from you! We welcome abstracts for oral and poster presentations from researchers working on food waste and by-products valorisation, soil health, or the sustainable design of products and processes.

Additionally, our career development session promises an interactive exploration of opportunities to propel young scientists' careers forward. Delve into funding possibilities, entrepreneurial ventures, and other pathways to professional growth. Gain valuable insights, resources, and guidance to navigate your career journey with confidence and clarity.

Stay tuned for more details on this exciting event designed to empower and support early career scientists on their path to success.

The ECS event is joined with the ILSI Europe Annual Symposium, which will be held the next day.
R
egistration gives you access to both days. For practical information, visit the events Home Page

Registration

Registration for this event is also valid for the ILSI Europe Annual Symposium.

Various prize categories are on offer.
Super Early bird rates are valid until 1 June 2024.
Early bird rates are valid until 30 September 2024.

If you have any questions regarding registration, please contact Hugo Costa (hcosta@ilsieurope.be).

Register now!

Programme

Below, you will find the detailed programme for the Early Career Scientists event.
To find the detailed programme for ILSI Europe Annual Symposium, click here.
8:30 - 9:00
Registration
9:00 - 10:30
Session 1 - Green by Design: Innovating with Sustainability in Mind

Nearly all human activities can result in resource depletion, ecological damage, and environmental pollution. To minimize these potentially damaging effects, change is necessary towards a more responsible way of designing human activities. This includes food production and processing. To implement such change, we should apply sustainable design principles: consider and minimize environmental impact when developing ingredients, products, and food production processes. This can be done by finding ways to reduce waste, reuse resources, and recycle products and materials. This is known as the "3R principles", which can be further extended to the 10R principles: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Renew, Recharge (or Refill), Repair (or Remedy), Re-manufacture (or Recover), Replace (or Replant), Re-clear (or Refine) and Remove.

Chair: Bas Blaauboer, Emeritus professor of toxicology at Utrecht University (NL)

Speakers:
  • Bina Bhattarai, a post doctoral researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DK)
    Presentation: Circular food packaging design for circular economy: a food safety assessment
  • Adam Fogarasi, MSc, after a year as Nutrition Scientist at Arla Food, he preparing to start his PhD at the University of Copenhagen (DK)
    Presentation: The HEAT Project: Multidimensional Optimization of Sustainable European Diets
  • TBD
  • TBD
10:30 - 11:00
Networking break & Poster session
11:00 - 12:30
Session 2 - Up-cycling the up-cyclable: new perspectives in green, bio-based, and circular valorisation of food waste and food by-products

The agri-food chain is affected by resource scarcity, food loss, and waste and by-products production. A specific life cycle assessment of agri-food chains can highlight the critical points, elucidating the targets that research and policy management must work with in the near future. The EU waste policy aims to contribute to the circular economy by extracting high-quality resources from waste as much as possible. The European Green Deal aims to promote growth by transitioning to a modern, resource-efficient, and competitive economy. As part of this transition, green and bio-based approaches will drive new perspectives in food waste and by-products up-cycling, including recalcitrant biomasses. Fermentation, precision fermentation, and bio-catalysis coupled with other green approaches will permit the release of new processes, new products, and new capacities. This session will explore the crucial connections between the process technologies, the regulatory aspects (e.g. for novel ingredients) and the sustainable perspectives in the agri-food area, exploring the resilient capacity to drive the future human nutrition.

Chair: Marco Arlorio, Director of Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Università del Piemonte Oriental (IT)

Speakers:
  • Giancarlo Cravotto, Full Professor of Chemistry at Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnologia del Farmaco, University of Turin (IT)
    Presentation: Semi-industrial cascade protocols under non-conventional technologies for the valorization of agri-food by-products
  • Vincenzo Disca, a PhD student at the Food Chemistry, Biotechnology and Nutrition Unit (DSF) at University of Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro (IT)
    Presentation: Up-cycled cocoa bean shells: a potential fiber-rich functional ingredient?
  • Simone Krings, Post Doctoral researcher in the Department of Proteomics and Microbiology at the University of Mons (BE)
    Presentation: Valorising organic waste for the production of high-value molecules by purple non-sulfur bacteria
  • Maame Ekua Manful, a Ph.D. Student on the Up4health Project, a BBI JU-funded project at the Technological University Dublin
    Presentation: Safety and regulatory aspects of upcycled novel foods in the European Union: Insights and future perspectives
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 -15:00
Career Development Session - How to boost my career in Food & Nutrition Science?

Our career development session promises an interactive exploration of opportunities to propel young scientists' careers forward. Delve into funding possibilities, entrepreneurial ventures, and other pathways to professional growth. Gain valuable insights, resources, and guidance to navigate your career journey with confidence and clarity.

Exhibitors:
  • COST Action
  • ENLP (European Nutrition Leadership Platform)
  • DTU Skylab
  • ILSI Europe
15:00 - 15:40
Session 3 - Food 2030

The EU's research and innovation policy framework supporting the transition towards sustainable, healthy and inclusive food systems, that respect planetary boundaries.

Chair: Isabelle Guelinckx, Executive & Scientific Director at ILSI Europe

Speaker:

  • Rosalinda Scalia, Deputy Head of Unit at EC-DG RTD, Unit Bioeconomy & Food Systems, Healthy Planet Directorate
15:30 - 17:00
Session 4 - From the Ground Up: Exploring the Vital Links between Soil Health and Sustainable Food Systems

Soil is the foundation of our food system. Healthy soils are essential to provide healthy food, reverse biodiversity loss, and safeguard human health, but also for achieving climate neutrality, a clean and circular economy and halting desertification and land degradation. Yet it is estimated that 60 to 70% of European soils are unhealthy, degraded or depleted. We urgently need to protect and restore these invaluable resources, as outlined by the EU Soil Strategy for 2030. Soil regeneration offers a pathway forward, combining practices to improve soil health and productivity. This session will explore the crucial connections between soil, human and planetary health. Their understanding is key to design solutions for resilient agricultural systems and sustainable food production.

Chair: Emilie Weynants, EU-Projects & Communication Manager at ILSI Europe

Speakers:

To be defined

16:50 - 17:00
From 19:15
Awards & Closing
Dinner in Copenhagen at Scandic Spectrum Hotel

Call for abstracts

[Abstracts submission closed]

We accept abstracts from early career scientists for the following sessions:

  • Session 1 - Green by Design: Innovating with Sustainability in Mind
  • Session 2 - Up-cycling the up-cyclable: new perspectives in green, bio-based, and circular valorisation of food waste and food by-products
  • Session 4 - From the Ground Up: Exploring the Vital Links between Soil Health and Sustainable Food Systems

Descriptions can be found in the programme below.

Abstracts will be selected on the basis of scientific excellence and relevance to the sessions.
Submissions will be accepted 15 June 2024 1st of July 2024. Authors will be notified in August.
Travel and accommodation for the selected speakers will be covered by ILSI Europe (oral presentations only). Important note: We will only accept abstracts from early career scientists for these three sessions.
An early career scientist is defined as a postgraduate student or scientist from academia or industry who has obtained their highest degree (BSc, MSc or PhD) within the last ten years.

[Abstracts submission closed]

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About the event

CATALYSE is a Horizon Europe project aiming to promote the implementation of new innovative solutions for food safety to solve the real needs of end-users in the food supply chain. From health, to food, to the environment, microbes have a role, and we highlight and celebrate that on International Microorganism Day on 17th September each year. CATALYSE partners take this as an opportunity to organize an interactive webinar session during this period focusing on food safety in regard to microbiology and innovations. This webinar brings together Industry, Academia and Public authorities to discuss on critical food safety issues and priorities.

Registration

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