Mark your calendar for the kick-off event of the FutureFoodS EU partnership. This exciting initiative, co-funded by Horizon Europe and involving 87 partners from 29 countries, will launch on June 19 from 13:30 to 17:00 CET.
The event will be a unique opportunity to delve into this new partnership aimed at transforming food systems to be more safe, sustainable, healthy, resilient, and trusted. Aligned with the EU’s Green Deal goal of “Fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food systems, from primary production to consumption”, FutureFoodS will take actions such as launching open calls for research and innovation, developing Living Labs, establishing a new European food system observatory, and hosting several knowledge-sharing events.
Organized by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), the event will take place at the Centre for Taste and Feeding Behaviour in Dijon, accommodating over 120 attendees. For those unable to attend in person, the event will also be accessible online to an unlimited number of participants.
Do not miss out! Join the online event at the following link.
Program:
13:30 to 14:45 – Welcome and introduction of the FutureFoodS partnership
- Monique Axelos, Inrae, Scientific Director for Food and Bioeconomy
- Thierry Damerval, President of ANR
- Margareta Büning-Fesel, President of BLE
- John Bell, Head of the Healthy Planet Unit, DG-RTD
- Albert Wulff, Head of Directorate for Budget, Research, Operational Coordination, German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture – BMEL
- French Ministry of Higher Education and Research – MESR (TBC)
- Claude Yven, Coordinator of FutureFoodS
14:45 to 15:15 Break
15:15 to 17:00 – Food systems presentation and Round Table
- Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Chairperson of the United Nations, HLPE-FSN
- Niels Halberg, vice chair of the SCAR Food Systems Strategic Working Group
- Christian Bugge Henriksen, coordinator of CLEVERFOOD
- Nicolas Tinois, coordinator of AGROECOLOGY
- Esther Diez-Cebollero for the European partnership Water4All
- Hendrik de Ruyck for ERA4Health