The 2nd edition of the 3D Food Printing Conference will take place at Innovatoren in Venlo, The Netherlands on April 12, 2016.

The 3D Food Printing Conference is the innovative networking event for everyone involved in 3D printing and the food industry. The conference offers design and engineering professionals the chance to learn and meet the possibilities
    of 3D printing in the food industry.

The event addresses suppliers to the food industry, healthcare professionals, hospitality and catering professionals, food research institutions, trendwatchers and foodpreneurs, but is open to all companies and individuals interested in 3D food printing.

For further information, please visit http://3dfoodprintingconference.com/

April 12, 2016, Venlo, the Netherlands

The European Algae Roadmap Conference will be held on 6-8 April 2015 at the municipality of Olhão, in the Algarve region of Southern Portugal.The conference intends to connect different European projects on algae and, from that, identify new targets for future research and development.

The conference in Olhão will showcase several years of research conducted within seven EU-funded research projects on microalgae and will cover sessions on

• Metabolism and strain development
• Biorefineries
• Residual streams
• Cultivation systems and scale-up
• Life-cycle analysis and techno-economic evaluation
• Process integration

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April, 6-8, 2016, Olhão, Portugal

The International Conference on Coexistence between Genetically Modified (GM) and non-GM based Agricultural Supply Chains (GMCC) takes place between November 17-20 in Amsterdam. It is a biennial international event focused on coexistence of biotechnology, conventional and organic food in international supply chains and trade.

Leading experts from various academic disciplines and industry, regulators, policy makers and other key stakeholders from around the world gather to discuss the challenges and opportunities in managing different types of foods in global markets. The conference brings together experts from these fields in order to stimulate active multi-                                                                                       faceted discussions on proper market practices and                                                                                       government policies for coexistence.

    Plenary speakers:

• Prof. Dr. Jayson Lusk (Regents Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University),

• Jaime Piçarra (vice-Chairman of the Industrial Compound Feed Production Committee of the European Feed Compounder Industry Association),

• Ruud Tijssens (President of European Feed Compounder Industry Association)
  

• Prof. Dr. David Zilberman (Robinson Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley)
• Marta Zuluaga Zilbermann - Director of Policy & Government Relations Cargill’s Corporate
  Affairs Europe, Middle East & Africa

November 17-20, 2015, Amsterdam - the Netherlands

Early-bird registration until September 15, 2015

Find more information about this event in the invitational letter below or visit the website.

organized by the Faculty of Food Science of Corvinus University of Budapest, the Food Science Scientific Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Hungarian Association for Food Protection (HAFP) and the National Food Chain Safety Office.

Official language of the conference is English.

Information on the Conference Theme, Call for Abstracts, Deadlines, Venue, and other information can be found on the linked conference  website below.

November 18-19 2015, CUB Buda Campus, Budapest - Hungary

The conference "Delivering on EU Food Safety: Promoting a Safe and Sustainable Agri-Food Chain" will highlight  some of the key steps necessary to improve food safety along the production chain from farming to consumption. Further this symposium is an invaluable opportunity for experts, policy makers, NGOs and other key stakeholders to discuss the latest European regulatory policies on food safety and food labelling that aim to promote a sustainable agri-food chain. The symposium will also allow delegates to assess the current and future challenges faced and to share best practices and initiatives from across Europe.

Delegates will:

• Evaluate the current EU food safety policy framework
• Debate on future challenges and emerging risks within the European food system
• Examine the efficiency of controls along the agri-food chain at EU level
• Explore innovative solutions to ensure food safety in Europe and provide recommendations for future initiatives

Date: Tuesday 17th November 2015

Time: 10:00am — 4:30pm

Venue: NH Brussels Carrefour de l'Europe

Read more about the event.

If you would like to participate, please use the attached form or register online.

This event will be hosted by TRADEIT and TRAFOON on Thursday November 12 at 14:30 to 16:30 in Athens, Greece

A bridge between food producers, associations and academia

In the European Union, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the food sector are increasingly under pressure due to the opening of markets, an increasing demand of standardized and price competitive food products by the consumers, the rising importance of large retailers and the challenges of conforming to governmental regulations.

The aim of this event is to discuss the recent developments in the traditional agri-food sector assessing the particular technological, innovation and entrepreneurship needs. The session will focus on issues related to sustainability, food safety, quality, processing, waste utilization, labeling and certification. Marketing and business models will be addressed to enable small- and micro-scale enterprises to upgrade and up-skill through the networking and entrepreneurial training.

The session will focus on:                                                                                                                                                      

1.  Objectives of the projects and overview
   
2.  Analysis of needs focusing on the relevant sectors per project  
3.  Approaches to support the knowledge and technology transfer           
   

The discussion will cover the following topics:

1. Formulation of TRADEIT and TRAFOON Strategic Research and Innovation Agendas (SRIA)
2. Innovation and its potential role in small-scale traditional food production

November 12 2015, Athens - Greece

The 29th EFFoST International Conference will be held in Athens, Greece from 10-12 November 2015 under the theme: Food Science Research and Innovation: Delivering sustainable solutions to the global economy and society. The Conference will be organized by the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) on behalf of the European Federation of Food Science and Technology (EFFoST).

The conference will provide a forum for the broader spectrum of food science research and innovation and will serve as a meeting point for an International audience of researchers, scientists, engineers, policy makers, professionals and students. In a year that overlaps with the closing of many major food-related FP7 projects and the first round of output from the Horizon 2020 projects, the theme of the conference reflects the current philosophy of sustainability in both scientific research and applications in the multidisciplinary field of food.

November 10-12 2015, Athens - Greece

Abstract Submission Deadline: 5 May 2015

Oral and poster abstracts should be submitted using the online abstract submission system

The event will feature different presentations of speakers from Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands related to raw sausage and raw ham products. The forum will take place at the Tagesentrum Hohenheim

Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Paracelsusstr. 91

70599 Stuttgart.

Participation Fees:

GDL Member:                         380 €

Non-GDL Member:                460 €

            Student GDL Member              50 €

                      Student Non-GDL Member     80 €

Registration is open until November 10, 2015 at www.gdl-ev.org

November 10, 2015, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany

EBN’s 24th Congress: New Frontiers for Innovative Entrepreneurs, will explore these borders, presenting the latest ideas from thought-leaders, showcasing the entrepreneurs opening up these frontiers, allowing you to see the future of innovation.

The HygieniCon 2015 is a German congress covering different subjects related to hygenic design. The congress will take place October 19-21 2015 at the Print Media Academy, Kurfürsten-Anlage 52-60  in 69115 Heidelberg.

Main topics of the conference will be:

• Organisations and Legislation
• Resource Efficiency
• Food Safety
• Material Conformity
• Case Studies
• Increased Productivity

Date: October 19-21 2015

Venue: Print Media Academy, Kurfürsten-Anlage 52-60  in 69115 Heidelberg

Registration is open until October 18, 2015 using this link

In the light of this year's EXPO topic Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life, a project-based website has been established, that contains a database of traditional recipes from all over the world, composed by over 5.200 authors from over 110 different countries.

The well-categorized database shows both innovative and modern, but also many traditional recipes. In contrary to classic recipes, which usually consist of a list of ingredients and preparation instructions, these recipes additionally display nutritional information and a specific "Food Print". This Food Print ranges from one to five and serves as an indicator for the degree of sustainability and the environmental impact of a certain recipe.

Please visit World Recipes for more information.

General information

The aim of the conference is to exchange knowledge and ideas between experts and participants, to enable discussion on the current challenges facing our society, and to find possible solutions to the resulting or upcoming problems, but also an opportunity to socialize and to bond for successful future cooperation.

The conference will host researchers and experts in all fields related to mediterranean food and nutrition.

Overall the conference will feature 30 renowned Slovenian and foreign lecturers from Mediterranean countries, their contributions will cover the following areas:

• General aspects of Mediterranean Food and Nutrition
• Technological aspects of Mediterranean Food and Nutrition
• Quality and Safety aspects of Mediterranean Food and Nutrition
• Nutritional aspects of Mediterranean Food and Nutrition
• Health aspects of Mediterranean Food and Nutrition

Date: 16 & 17 October, 2015, Portorož - Slovenia

Pre-application is open till September 18, 2015

Submission deadline for poster is September 7, 2015

Find more information about the conference under the following link.

Eigenes Knowhow sichern, eine „Marke“ entwickeln,

Design schützen“

Das Seminar möchte Handwerkern und Mittelständlern helfen, den Blick für schützenswertes Know-how zu schärfen und auf Chancen und Risiken beim Umgang mit eigenem und fremdem Know-how hinweisen. Die verschiedenen Formen des möglichen Schutzes von „geistigem Eigentum“ werden vorgestellt und hinsichtlich ihrer Vor- und Nachteile verglichen. Ihnen werden Wege aufgezeigt und Hilfestellungen beim Erwerb und Umgang mit gewerblichen Schutzrechten gegeben.

September 21 2015. Nuthetal, Bergholz-Rehbrücke - Germany

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Umweltmanagement - eine Aufwertung für traditionelle Lebensmittel

Im Rahmen unseres Workshops bekommen Sie durch unsere Fachdozentin nicht nur hervorragende Einblicke in das Thema Umweltmanagement, sondern erhalten während des Betriebsbesuches bei Märkisches Landbrot Informationen aus erster Hand, so dass Sie am Beispiel EMAS Wissenswertesüber die eigentliche Umsetzung erfahren. Beispiele aus der betrieblichen Praxis, innovative und nachhaltige Technologien und umweltgerechte Lösungen werden Ihnen vor Ort im Betrieb vorgestellt und präsentiert.

October 13 2015 Märkisches Landbrot, Berlin, Neukölln - Germany

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The third international symposium on traditional food from adriatic to caucasus will be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on October 1-4, 2015.

The aim of the symposium will be to evaluate production processes and indicate the importance of the traditional food products which are produced in countries from Adriatic to Caucasus and locally important. Another goal will be improving the international familiarness of the products which are known just locally and to develop further academic and cultural agreements among universities from Adriatic to Caucasus.

The list below displays the scientific topics, which will be covered during the symposium:

Topics:

• Traditional Cereal Foods
• Traditional Meat, Poultry and Fishery Products
• Traditional Dairy Products
• Traditional Fruit and Vegetable Foods
• Traditional Sweet Products
• Other Traditional Foods
• Social Aspects of Traditional Food and Nourishment
• Traditional Functional Foods
• Modernisation of Traditional Food Production Processes
• Safety of Traditional Foods
  

For more information about this event, visit the website.

October 1-4, 2015 Bosnia and Herzegovina

Food Safety Brokerage Event

The TRADEIT Food Safety Brokerage event will bring together traditional food producers and experts in food safety technologies from across Europe. The purpose of the event is to present technologies suitable for the traditional food sector, and to facilitate exchange of best practice between food producers, technology providers, researchers and food safety experts

Main topics

• Detection of Food Contamination
• Tracking, Tracing and Authentication of Foods
• Cleaning and Disinfection
• Novel Technologies for Safe Food Processing

October 1st and 2nd 2015, Tralee - Ireland

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9th Dingle Food Festival EuroFoodVision

The Dingle Food Festival involves taste trails, food markets, food workshops, entertainment and cookery demonstrations. one of the key highlights of the event is the "Blas na hEireann" Irish national taste awards, which attracts over 2500 entrants. The winner of these prestigious awards are selected by a panel of irish and UK buyers.

October 3rd 2015, Dingle - Ireland

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Overview

In today's society, packaging is pervasive and essential.

It surrounds, enhances and protects the products we buy.   Consequently, it is essential to select the materials/laminated film most appropriate for the conditions of use and clearly define performance characteristics for the finished packages.

Main topics:

• Film selection
• Pouch performance & specification
• Filling techniques
• Racking & pack holding system
• Pouch sealing
• Heat processing requirements
• Measurement of sealing conditions
• Quality checks (e.g. Dye penetration test, compression burst testing)

Duration: 90 Minutes

Instructor: Rotimi Toki

Participation Fee: 115 $

September 28 2015, 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

Registration

Hochschule Anhalt in Bernburg

Der DLG-Lebensmitteltag Sensorik bietet ein vielfältiges Programm zu aktuell diskutierten Themen der Lebensmittelbranche. Zu dem Thema „Geschmack grenzenlos? – Strategien in der Welt der Lebensmittel“ diskutieren namhafte Referenten über Positionierungsstrategien. Sie zeigen Praxisbeispiele auf und liefern Impulse für zukünftige Entwicklungen in der Lebensmittelwirtschaft.

September 23-24 2015, Bernburg - Germany

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The International Competence Center on Meat Quality at the Max Rubner-Institut in Kulmbach, Germany holds the 5th International Summer from  22 to 25 September 2015 in Kulmbach. This years topic is "Thermal treatment of meat and meat products: from molecular gastronomy to extended shelf life"

September 22-25 2015, Kulmbach - Germany

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Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan

The topic of the seminar will be: "Novel Methods and Applications for Concentration, Fractionation, Thermal Preservation and Drying of Milk, Whey and Starter Cultures".

Participation fee:

850 € 2-day seminar-fee

780 € Members of foundation/TUM Alumni Associations

500 € Members of public institutions

September 16-18 2015, Freising - Germany

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The workshop "Bio and tradition, bio and innovation!" is organized as part of a collaboration between Alce Nero, the University of Bologna and the FP7 European project TRAFOON (Traditional Food Network to improve the transfer of knowledge for Innovation), which deals with technology transfer between SMEs and universities in the field of traditional foods. Among the foods considered in TRAFOON, there are those from cereals, fruits and vegetables and derivative products. The workshop aims to align the innovative aspects in the field of organic food and traditional foods, showing that tradition and innovation are not two conflicting aspects but that they can go together to get safer and high quality food and respectful of consumers needs.

The workshop is part of the EU project ECO-FCE. (www.eco-fce.eu)

ECO-FCE is a EU-funded research project (7th Framework Programme) that will provide the pig and poultry industries across the EU with strategies and tools to accomplish the task of feeding a growing world population in an efficient and ecologically-friendly manner.

After two years of hard research work the ECO-FCE consortium invites you and colleagues to the stakeholder workshop on 30th of August 2015 in Warsaw, Poland, in order to present, discuss and share first promising results.

The workshop is free of charge and will also include a world cafe in order to exchange and share feedback and recommendations by the participants.

August 30 2015, Warsaw - Poland

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Aquaculture 2015 will have the motto Cutting Edge Science in Aquaculture. It will highlight the top scientific approaches being used to advance the global aquaculture industry. The conference focuses on research in advancing aquaculture diseases, feeds, genetics, ecological interactions, and sustainable systems.

The main research themes at Aquaculture 2015 will be "research innovations on aquaculture's interactions with the environment", "modern methods for disease detection and control", "applications for physiology and experimental biology to improve the sustainability of aquaculture", "new targets and tools for selective breeding of aquaculture species", "nutritional advances using molecular techniques", and "the governance of aquaculture value chains".

August 23-26 2015, Montpellier - France

The 7th "WATER & FISH" Conference will be held at the Faculty of Agriculture in Belgrade, next to the Zemun quayside - the most beautiful promenade near the Danube in Belgrade. According to the conference title, the main topics are water and fish. Welcomed are all those interested in or studying aquatic environment and aquatic organisms, aquaculture, fishery, etc.

Compliance with European Union food law and regulations is a delicate issue. Food quality and food safety may be at stake.

This course from the Wageningen Academy, University of Wageningen is designed for those dealing with food regulatory affairs, including food quality, safety, product development and marketing in public authorities, food businesses, consultancy, legal counselling and academia. The course will strengthen particpants’ background, develop their knowledge in legal and technical issues and enable them to combine both in practice.

June 09-12, Brussels - Belgium

The 3rd NEEFood Congress will be held at the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania from 20-23 May 2015 under the theme of Global and Local Challenges in Food Science and Technology.

All interested scientists, professionals, companies, governmental officials and professional associations working in the fields of food production, food processing, food quality and safety, nutrition, engineering and design, innovative technologies from Europe and all around the world are invited to attend the event.

May 20-23, Brasov - Romania

This conference is organized by the ERASMUS+ Knowledge Alliance project EuFooD-STA project 554312-EPP-1-2014-1-AT-EPPKA2-KA, a knowledge alliance between universities and food companies.

The aim of this conference is to collect best practices of university-industry educational and training initiatives for food study programmes and CPD (continual professional development). Invited speakers from universities, industries and research will present perspectives of curriculum development, companies and research.

The conference will be followed by an "open international forum" for teachers, education scientists and industry representatives to promote a constructive dialogue and collaboration on university-industry educational and training initiatives, and to present and disseminate the results of the activities developed by the project and after.

May 07-08 2015, online

The 20th IGV Conference will be held on 22-23 of April in Potsdam Rehbrücke, Germany under the theme "Healthy grain for a healthy diet".

Key subjects of the conference are cultivation and harvesting, milling and processing, product development, food production, functional ingredients and functionalised food, age-appropriate nutrition, test methods, Quality and Safety, health claims, labelling and communication.

The conference addresses millers, bakers, agricultural managers, manufacturers of machines and packaging, experts from the wholesale and retail trades, product developers, marketing experts, researchers and developers interested in the technological or nutritional aspects of cereal use, authorised experts, employees from official authorities and the media as well as consultants.

April 22-23 2015, Potsdam Rehbrücke - Germany

The TRAFOON Training Workshop will take place the 27 of March at the Agricultura Advisory Centre (Podkarpacki Ośrodek Doradztwa Rolniczego), Boguchwała, Poland. The language of the Workshop will be Polish.

March 27 2015, Boguchwała - Poland

In the first year of the TRAFOON project, European small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are producing traditional foods and food raw materials were asked for their current needs and their opinion of future challenges.

SMEs were asked for needed innovations of technical improvements in food production and processing, packaging, labelling, certification, marketing and related topics. For the qualitative analysis of this inventory of needs, multi-stakeholder workshops will be performed which are focusing on the named needs of SMEs in the five food categories. Following multi-stakeholder workshops will be performed:

• September 02-03 2014, Poland. Workshop on vegetables and mushrooms
• September 30 2014, Spain. Workshop on olives
• September 30 2014, Switzerland. Workshop on sweet fruits
• October 01-02 2014, Netherlands. Workshop on grain
• October 07-08 2014, Czech Republic. Workshop on Fish
  

Based on the inventory of needs, the workshops identify sets of innovations that are needed by traditional food SMEs within the different food categories and design training workshops for SMEs which will be performed in the year 2 and 3 of the TRAFOON project. Further, the multi-stakeholder workshops identify gaps in innovations which will be included into the strategic research and innovation agenda.

September 02 - October 08, all over Europe

The 17th IUFoST World Food Congress brings together again the international food science and technology community to foster relationships, share knowledge and develop strategies towards IUFoST’s mission of Strengthening Global Food Science and Technology for Humanity.

The theme of this year’s IUFoST World Congress of Food Science & Technology is Research that Resonates. This theme was selected to reflect how understanding the successful commercialization of our innovation is more important today than ever before. Join colleagues from all sectors; Science, Academia, Government and Industry and learn how we can execute more successfully in areas like: Collaboration, Education and Innovation–in an effort to provide quality food & beverage products that resonate with consumers.

August 17-21 2014, Montreal, Canada

The ISEKI_Food network, through the ISEKI_FOOD 4 supported by the European Commission under the Erasmus programme, in collaboration with the ISEKI_Food is organising the 3rd International ISEKI_Food Conference to be held in Athens, Greece, May 21-23, 2014.

The general aims of the ISEKI_Food conference series are to contribute to the creation of an "open" international forum for researchers, education scientists, technologists and industry representatives as well as food consumers, to promote constructive dialogue and collaboration on topics relevant to Food Science and Technology, Industry and Education and to present and disseminate the results of the activities developed by the ISEKI_Food network projects.

This conference will be focused on Food Science and Technology for a Bioeconomy 2020. Among a wide number of conference topics, the re-thinking of education in terms of strategies and methods for higher education and continual professional development, the most recent research innovations and emergent requirements, and developments and needs for an industry sustainable food supply, will be on top of the agenda. Several pre-conference events are also included and organized: The final session of the pilot "Summer School" for teachers in Food Science & Technology, and two workshops on European PhD research and involvement and role of industry.

May 21-23 2014, Athens, Greece