EFFoST Annual Conference

LEVEL OF APPROACH:

MAIN IMPACTS:

INT - Integrated multi-disciplinary approach and global food chain analysis

SPE - Specialized in depth understanding of agro-food matter

I- Food production: security, safety, health and well-being of consumers

Examples of Topics:

• Food security and environmental changes
• Emerging challenges
• Specific challenges for South and Mediterranean food systems
• Microbial and chemical risk analysis
• Reducing losses through innovative food chain management
• Rediscovering traditional foods.

Examples of Topics:

• Microfluidics - based chemical and (micro)biological sensors
• Probiotics and nutrigenomics
• Gut engineering
• Neoformed compounds during processing and preservation
• Gastronomy and sensory science advances (e.g. sweet/salt perception vs food structure)
• Innovative food structuring process (e.g. microfluidics for foams, emulsions, mild/non thermal processes)
• Specific food formulation to fight malnutrition in South and North countries .   

II- Environmental impact and economic competitiveness

Examples of Topics:

• Advances in life cycle assessment
• Bio-refinery: balance between food/non food use
• Wastes and biomass valorization
• Novel food systems for energy (cold-chain, thermal treatment etc.) and water use reduction
• Regional food SMEs (networking).

Examples of Topics:

• Emerging eco-processes (e.g. agro-cracking, structuring processes)
• Novel biomolecules and biomaterials for food packaging, specialty chemicals etc.
• Small scale concept for sustainable innovation in agro-food SMEs.

III- Advanced scientific approaches: methods, tools and instruments

Examples of Topics:

• Data and knowledge capitalization - predictive modeling
• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• Reverse engineering
• Decision making tools (multi-criteria and multi-stakeholder analysis, multi-objective design).

Examples of Topics:

• Safety assessment methodologies of nanotechnologies;
• Advanced characterization tools: synchrotron, advanced spectroscopy, 3D imaging; Metabolomics;
• Molecular, meso and multiscale modeling.