Projects
Academic Center for Research On Nutritional health In Man KU Leuven
This application aims to establish a state-of-the-art facility for multidisciplinary and integrative academic research on the complex interaction between gastrointestinal, metabolic, endocrine, neural, behavioral and psychological mechanisms underlying the regulation of hunger, feeding behavior and body weight in health and various diseases including gastrointestinal disorders, diabetes, liver disease, obesity and eating disorders. To conduct ...
Reducing research waste and setting ethical priorities in nutrition research: New tools and indicators Ghent University
This research uses an interdisciplinary approach to improve the quality of nutritional epidemiology research. For this purpose, two tools are developed at different stages of research cycle, reporting guidelines at the publication stage, and ethical framework for priority settings at the initiation phase.
Interventions to ensure the best implementation strategy will be taken, and recommendation of use will be disseminated widely. ...
Twinning of research activities for the frontier research in the fields of food, nutrition and environmental ‘omics KU Leuven
Objective
The objective of FoodEnTwin is to create a networking collaboration among the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry (UBFC) and its Center of Research Excellence for Molecular Food Sciences (CoE MFS) and four high renowned institutes from Sweden, Austria and Belgium providing a unique opportunity for UBFC and its partners to increase their scientific excellence and visibility, technology innovation capacity and enable ...
Twinning of research activities for the frontier research in the field of food, nutrition and environmental 'omics' Ghent University
The objective of FoodEnTwin is to create a networking collaboration among the University of Belgrade –Faculty of Chemistry (UBFC) and its Center of Research Excellence for Molecular Food Sciences (CoE MFS) and four high renowned institutes from Sweden, Austria and Belgium providing a unique opportunity for UBFC and its partners to increase their scientific excellence and visibility, technology innovation capacity and enable frontier research ...
Sustainable nutrition research for Africa in the years to come Institute of Tropical Medicine
The SUNRAY (Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in the Years to come) project will produce a new, sustainable nutrition research agenda for sub-Saharan Africa where malnutrition rates remain high: only nine out of 46 countries are on track to achieve the first Millennium Development Goal target of a 50% reduction in underweight prevalence among children under five years. Despite the huge cost of malnutrition, investment in the nutrition ...
Innovation Manager for the Leuven Food Science and Nutrition Research Centre (LFoRCE) KU Leuven
Today, the whole food chain is more complex than ever. Many challenges face all involved, be it in agriculture, food production, retail, policy making and regulatory bodies, or research and development. Challenges include increasing the sustainability of food production systems, assuring and improving the quality and safety of food products, conferring health-promoting properties to food products, and dealing with the shift in age profile of ...
Nutrition Research Facility Ghent University
On behalf of AGRINATURA, the Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health of Ghent University coordinates the Nutrition Research Facility. The overall objective of this project is to enhance evidence-informed decision-making in the field of nutrition and nutrition-sensitive policies and projects. Decision-makers include the European Commission, EU Member States, as well as 42 low-and-middle-income EU partner countries in the south.
Alliance Research Group: Physical education, physical activity and nutrition Ghent University
The research group will focus on measuring and analysing physical activity and nutrition behaviour, define the determinants of physial activity and nutrition behaviour, the promotion of physical activity and healthy nurtiotion behaviour and the quality of physical education lessons.