Conference with Holistic View of Food Production

5th international ISEKI_Food conference at the University of Hohenheim

08-Jun-2018 - Germany

For sustainable food production, it is necessary to view the increasingly complex production steps not separately but as a holistic system. This is also the goal of the participants at the fifth international ISEKI_Food Conference. They will meet from 3 to 5 July 2018 at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart. The motto of the event during the anniversary Festive Week: “The food System Approach”. The conference language is English. A press conference is not planned, but the organizers are happy to arrange interviews. Please send interview and accreditation requests via email.

Creating, processing, marketing, or health-related issues - in food production, these are all linked. “The Food System Approach: New Challenges for Education, Research and Industry” is therefore the topic of the 5th ISEKI_Food Conference from 3 to 5 July 2018 at the University of Hohenheim.

The ISEKI-Food Association and the Hohenheim Research Center for Bioeconomy are organizing the event together. Up to 400 participants from around the world are expected.

Networks for the Food of the Future

“We’re very glad that we will host the ISEKI_Food Conference during our anniversary year - and it will even be during the Festive Week,” declared Susanne Braun, Managing Director of the Research Center for Bioeconomy. “After all, the University of Hohenheim was also founded due to a food problem - the famine that resulted from the Tambora eruption in 1815.”

200 years later, networking is the magic word: Representatives from research, industry, and education will meet at the conference to exchange ideas and cooperate more closely. Only with this networking can all aspects related to the production, processing, packaging, sales, further processing, and consumption of food be taken into consideration. “That benefits social security and environmental protection, and it improves access to food and its availability,” stated Susanne Braun.

Speeches and Workshops

To open the ISEKI_Food Conference, speeches will be held by the President of the ISEKI-Food Association Prof. Dr. Paola Pittia, President of the Federal Office for Agricultural and Food Dr. Hanns-Christoph Eiden, Prof. Dr. Jochen Weiss (University of Hohenheim), Dr. Joachim Kreysa (Joint Research Centre of the EU Commission, Belgium), and Prof. Amar Mohanty (University of Guelph, Canada).

There will also be numerous workshops - partners include EIT Food, the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) for the food sector, and the Strategic Network for Bio-based Economy (BECY).

In the context of the EU H2020 project SciShops, a workshop with regional actors in the short food supply chain will take place. A World Café with the topic “Strengthening direct marketing starting with the farm - From the farmer to the consumer” has the goal of developing ideas to strengthen short regional supply chains for food.

In the framework of the EU project MYPACK, there will be a workshop that introduces and discusses innovative and sustainable technologies for food packaging. The workshop brings together the three packaging projects (MYPACK, YPACK, GLOPACK) funded in Horizon2020 and serves to promote future cooperation and mutual learning.

The Organic Food System Programme (OFSP) will organize a workshop on ecological food systems as a model and living laboratory for sustainable food production. A special focus will thereby be placed on the tools for university education and methodological approaches with a view to the entire food system.

The three topic focuses for the individual conference days are:

Tuesday (3 July): Education
Wednesday (4 July): Research
Thursday (5

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