Food4Growth: a Sino-Nordic Hospital Food Service & Nutrition Network Project

  • Bent Egberg Mikkelsen (Lecturer)

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalks and presentations in private or public companies

Description

The Food4Growht network project loins research groups from Aalborg University Copenhagen (AAU-CPH), Centre for Nutrition and Intestinal (CET) from Aalborg University Hospital, JAMK University of Applied Sciences, University of Tromsø and Shanghai Fudan University and the Huadong Fudan University Hospital as well as the Zhongshan Fudan Hospital. This presentation gives an introduction to the project. The purpose of Food4Growth is to establish a network to connect researchers in the Nordic countries and China in order to advance research and education within the area of both public health nutrition and clinical nutrition and thereby strengthening the Nordic Centre’s research profile.. The network aims at capturing the potentials of hospital food and nutrition service to create value in terms of health, healthy and sustainable food consumption. The project runs from 2013-2015. The main activities in Food4Growth evolve around a knowledge hub, providing opportunities for knowledge brokering among. practitioners, researcher from the participating institutions. The knowledge brokering is staged in four multilateral workshops.

Period2 Oct 2014
Event titleFood4Growth seminar : University of Eastern Finland
Event typeConference
LocationKuopio, FinlandShow on map