2nd FORUM on FERMENTED FOODS - Networking Platform

ℹ️ PIMENTO is a COST Action project aiming to promote innovaiton in fermented foods.
Visit the project website www.fermentedfoods.eu

🦠 Present in all European diets, fermented foods (FF) hold a strategic place due to the benefits they offer in terms of nutrition, sustainability, innovation, cultural heritage and consumer interest. The potential of FF for improving human health but also driving food innovation and local production in the next decades has become highly relevant. The challenge is therefore to federate the scientific community and other key stakeholders working on FF. We want to collectively advance scientific evidence of their health benefits, building a benefits/risk approach in order to promote multi-modal innovation and respond to the expectations of different European communities.

🇪🇺 The long-term goal of PIMENTO is to place Europe at the spearhead of innovation on microbial foods, promoting health, regional diversity, local production at different scales, contributing to economical and societal development as well as food sovereignty. To respond to this challenge, the scientific and non-scientific community need to join forces and co-construct a multi-stakeholder vision and dynamic in the field of FF.

💡A COST Action is the best means of building this network and enabling this long-term vision to become reality.

👥 The wide variety of stakeholders engaged will enable PIMENTO :

• to tightly connect and clarify scientific knowledge on health aspects of FF

• to tackle technical, societal and legislative bottlenecks behind FF-based innovations

• to contribute to the establishment of long-term scientific workplaces

• to disseminate widely define scientific knowledge on FF and define strategic roadmap for future joint research

🌐The COST Action PIMENTO is organising the 2° Forum on Fermented Foods” which will take place in Málaga (Spain), between 5th-7th February 2025 at the School of Medicine, University of Málaga.

👉 If you have not done yet, register for the 2° Forum on Fermented Foods at this link.
Only registered participants can benefit of the networking platform this time.

📝 After the success of the first Forum on Fermented Foods in 2023 (Lyon), a second Forum on FF is organized to share the knowledge on these important foods: their variety, the large biodiversity of microorganisms involved and their metabolism, the innovation, sustainability and limitations on the FF production, the bioactivity of their compounds and their beneficial effects at different levels, and their role in a whole diet, among other essential topics.
Moreover, at forum will discuss about bottlenecks of innovation in FF and ways of cooperatioon and collaboration to boost the FF sector.

🗓️ Attempted sessions will be the following :

• Session 1: Diversity of FF

• Session 2: Safety of FF

• Session 3: M4S cluster

• Session 4: Health promoting effects of Fermented Foods

• Session 5: Booster and hurdles for innovation in FF

⭐NEW ACTIVITIES OF THE 2025 EDITION:

• Fermented Foods Innovation Award

• 1-to-1 Networking platform

Since networking is fundamental for any innovation activity, PIMENTO is providing the present networking platform in order to facilitate the networking of participants. Search the person that match your interest and need, create a connection and book a meeting during the 2° Forum on Fermented Foods in Malaga.

Networking opportunities: The event provides a great opportunity to meet and connect with like-minded individuals, as well as experts in your field. You can make valuable connections that can help you grow your career or business.

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