1st european congress on food ljubljana, 4-9 november...

1st European Congress on Food Ljubljana, 4-9 November 2008


Under Auspices of Dr. Danilo TÜRK

President of the Republic of Slovenia

Chaired by Professor Dr. Peter Raspor

President of EFFoSTEFFoST – The European Federation of Food Science & Technology is the

European part of IUFoST – The International Union of Food Science & Technology


European Declaration on Food, Technology, and Nutrition

to the global world


FIRST EUROPEAN FOOD CONGRESS

The congress mission:• to attract food and nutrition professionals from all European countries and guests from outside Europe

• to convince European food professionals that they need and deserve to have such a congress for a regular review of the European state‐of‐art in food science, technology, engineering and nutrition

• to build a stronger and more coherent view on food issues

• to collect, exchange and disseminate knowledge and experience in this extensive field in Europe



• to make an appropriate linking to European producers and distributors on issues of food importance, particularly concerning safety, quality and novelty of solutions to satisfy consumers needs

• to make an appropriate linking to European policy makers regarding issues of food importance, particularly concerning health, environment, technology and consumers issues

• to make an appropriate linking to European educatorsregarding relevant issues of food and nutrition


A five‐day programme interesting and exciting for all participants, will be: pan‐European

east, west, north and south (44 European countries) comprehensive

covering all food disciplines (from farm to consumer)

Will be conducted via plenary lectures, symposia, sessions, workshops, round tables, exhibition, posters and informal meetings



Morning Afternoon Evening Tuesday European Day - Presentation of

research results: COST monitoring meeting, FW6/ and FW7 Projects survey, Dissemination and Networking

Food policy: COST/ESF scenarios for future, SCAR scenario on future

Welcome of Congress Participants

Wednesday Food Patterns – from Food to Health: Food Safety, Molecular Gastronomy, Religious and Ethnic foods

Food Environment - from Agriculture to Technology: Life Cycle Analysis, Sustainable Supply Chain, Food Security, Clean Water

Cultural Experience

Thursday Food Processing – from Substrate to Food: Microbial Processing of Food, Hygienic Design, Allergenicity and Food Processing

NewMmethods in Food Production: Nanotechnology, Robotics, Food Safety

European Declaration on Food and Nutrition

Friday Country day- Slovenian Food Day:State of the art in Food and

Nutrition

Meeting of partners to build project proposalsVisit to country food enterprises , universities, institutes; Site seeing and free time

Saturday Food distribution - from Food to Consumer: Traceability, Organic Food, Food Labelling, Food Safety, Mistrust in Food, Consumer Education, GMOs as reality

Food nutrition- from food to wellbeing: Nutrigenomics, Functional Foods, Personalised Food

Gala dinner

Sunday New Food Concepts in the European Food Industry: Omics in Food Research, Legislation, Global Harmonisation – GHI; innovation vs.standardisation

FIRST EUROPEAN FOOD CONGRESSPROGRAMME STRUCTURE


Where?Ljubljana


Where?Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom

Congress centre


Pre-congress events


Opening words by President of Republic od Slovenia dr. TURK


Slovenian food day


Ecotrophelia


Round table


Congress awards


Zakaj potrebujemodeklaracijo?

Why wee need declaration?


To Enhance awareness about foodTo Formulate relevant knowledge and skills about itTo Fertilize this knowledge at all levels of societyTo organize societies in food and nutrition area in

geographical EuropeTo Stabilize activities in this area To Transfer all experiences we gain to daily practice.


Ključna dejstva• 700 ljudi• 47 drzav

• Austria, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. We are sorry that delegates from Belarus, Cyprus, Moldova, and Montenegro could not make it to join us in Ljubljana. We also had 20 delegates from non-European countries, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Tunisia, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Canada, China, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, South Africa, Taiwan, and the United States.


Ključna dejstva• Slovenski vecer 15 podjetij in

društev• Preko 30 prozvodov• 13 zaščitenih• Predkongress Tatjana Buzeti• ETP event 40 ljudi- Peter Medved• Podjetja ogledi Marko Prohinar in

Vesna Veljanovski

• Podpis deklaracije v Mestni hisiorganizacija Urbančič Alenka in Prof Žlender

• Medijska pokritost• 13 prispevkov• + novinarska konf

• The Congress comprised more than 250 oral contributions in more than 200 contact hours of the Congress scientific programme. Invited distinguished experts gave18 plenary keynote lectures, which were accompanied by more than 200 oral presentations in more than 30 symposia together with workshops, round table sessions and more then 400 posters displayed during entire period of the Congress.


Drugi o nas


Thanks to


Organizing Committee

• Tatjana Zagorc/ Alenka Urbančič, Chair Responsibilities: Communication/coordination with EFFOST and SPD, Member of ProgrammeCommittee Peter Raspor, Vice Chair Responsibilities: Supervision, CoordinationTatjana Buzeti Responsibilities: Scientific programme, Pre-congress meeting, Member of Programme Committee Janez Hribar Responsibilities: Slovenian day - visit to food companies, museums, universities, institutes, Member of Programme Committee Mojca Jevšnik Responsibilities: Public dissemination and Debate (Mass media/Society), Internet resources and coordination of activitiesPetra Medved Responsibilities: SecretariatŠtefan Oštir Responsibilities: Archive and documentationSilvester Pečjak Responsibilities: Fund raising and sponsorship (public/private; national/international) Treasurer SPDMarko Prohinar Responsibilities: Fund raising and sponsorship, expositionAlenka Urbančič Responsibilities: European declaration on food and nutrition, Promotion of Slovenia, Coordination with SPDVesna Veljanovski - Geremia Responsibilities: Protocol, Leisure events and social programmeBožidar Žlender Responsibilities: Ambassadors evening, Declaration evening


Programme Committee

• Dietrich Knorr, chair, EFFoST Responsibilities: Plan and run all activities related to congress programme, Member of congress boardPeter Raspor, co-chair, EFFoST Responsibilities: Supervise all the activities, President of congress board Aldona Dembinska-Kieć, Poland Responsibilities: Food pattern- from food to health: Molecular gastronomyFidel Toldra, Spain Responsibilities: Food pattern- from food to health: Religious food and Ethnic food/functional foodsCharles Spillane, Ireland Responsibilities: Food environment- from agriculture to technology:Sustainable food productionHerbert Buckenhüskes, Germany Responsibilities: Food environment- from agriculture to technology: Organic foods Marc Hendrickx, Belgium Responsibilities: Food processing- from substrate to food:Emerging technologiesViktor Nedović, Serbia Responsibilities: Food processing- from substrate to food:Microbial processing on foods Wolfgang Kneifel, Austria Responsibilities: New methods in food development and production:Harmonization of analytical methodsAnne-Marie Hermansson, Sweden Responsibilities: New methods in food development and production: Food StructuresThomas Ohlsen, Sweden Responsibilities: Food distribution from food to consumer: Life cycle analysis Jana Hajšlová, Czechia Responsibilities: Food distribution from food to consumer: Tracking and tracing of food productsWenhe Frølich, Norway Responsibilities: Nutrition-from food to wellbeing: Personalized foodAscensión Marcos, Spain Responsibilities: Nutrition-from food to wellbeing: ImmunonutritionDiana Banati, Hungary Responsibilities: New concepts in the European food industry: Integrated risk-benefit analysis in nutritional riskGianni Biolo, Italy Responsibilities: New concepts in the European food industry: Designing Nutrition behaviorIrena Rogelj, Slovenia Responsibilities: Country day: State of the art in food and nutrition in Slovenia Ralf Hartemink, The Netherlands Responsibilities: Dissemination of food research resultsJanez Hribar, Slovenia Responsibilities: Visit tofood companies, museums, universities, institutes, Member of Organising Committee (OC)Tatjana Zagorc, Slovenia Responsibilities: Coordinate places and technical capacities, Chair organizing Committee (OC) Tatjana Buzeti, Slovenia Responsibilities: Food networking and dissemination of EU project outcomes , Member of Organising Committee (OC)


International Organizations Committee

• Brian McKenna, ChairPeter Raspor, Vice ChairMonique Goyens, BEUC (link opens in new window)Jan Maat, ETP Food for Life (link opens in new window)Roxane Feller, Copa-Cogeca (link opens in new window)Alan Reilly, Deputy Chief Executive, Food Safety Authority of IrelandRoger Fenwick, EuCheMS-FCDMargarita Flores, FAO (link opens in new window)Milton S. da Costa, FEMS (link opens in new window)Francesco Branca, FENS (link opens in new window)Walter Spiess, IUFoST (link opens in new window)Marc Danzon, WHO (link opens in new window)Ibrahim Elmadfa, IUNS (link opens in new window)Knuth Lorenzen, EHEDG (link opens in new window)


Ambassadors Committee• Huub Lelieveld, Chair

Peter Raspor, Vice Chair Ilirjana Boci, Albania Ashot Saghiyan, Armenia Wolfgang Kniefel, Austria Koen Dewettinck, Belgium Čaklovica Faruk, Bosnia and Herzegovina Iordanka Alexieva, Bulgaria Mate Bilić, Croatia Athina Panayiotou, Cyprus Jana Hajšlová, CzechiaHenning Otte Hansen, Denmark Toomas Paalme, Estonia Anu Kaukovirta-Norja, Finland Paul Colonna, France George Kalantzopoulos, Greece Giorgi Kvesitadze, Georgia Sabine Kuling, Germany

• András Salgó, Hungary Inga Thorsdottir, Iceland Francis Butler, Ireland Rosangela Marchelli, Italy

• Daina Karklina, Latvia Rimantas Venskutonis, Lithuania Torsten Bohn, Luxembourg Vladimir Kakurinov, Macedonia Anna McElhatton, Malta Slavko Mirecki, Montenegro Bernd van der Meulen, Netherlands Wenche Frølich, Norway Włodzimierz Grajek, Poland Xavier Malcata, Portugal Mona Popa, Romania Iosif Rogov, Russia Misa Niksic, Serbia Peter Šimko, Slovakia Božidar Žlender, Slovenia Manuel Vázquez, Spain Anne-Marie Hermansson, Sweden Klaus Zimmermann, SwitzerlandFatih Yildiz, Turkey Sergey Fedosov, Ukraine David White, UK


Hvala za vse! Thanks!


Peter Raspor President 1st European congress

on foodLjubljana, 4-9 November 2008

1st european congress on food ljubljana, 4-9 november...

Documents