Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Join the biggest network worldwide in the field of Food Waste Recovery

The potential of food wastes to create new opportunities and markets has been under-estimated until the very recent years. Indeed, the term "Food Waste Recovery" was not in use, whereas the term recovery was used to underline the prospect of reutilizing or valorising food waste somehow. This term was established by the Special Interest Group 5 (SIG5) of ISEKI Food Association more than 3 years ago. It was used as an abbreviation for the vision of "extraction of valuable compounds from wasted by-products".
SIG5 is the biggest network worldwide in the field of food waste recovery. It has more than 500 subscribers (from >60 countries) of its Webinar Series and >1200 members in its Linkedin Group, whereas it has developed numerous teaching (webinars, workshop, book), learning (e-learning course) and research activities (special issue, research articles, joint proposals for funding etc). 

Follow SIG5 activities in our open forums:
Food Waste Recovery Facebook Page 
Join us for Live Communication in our forthcoming Workshop in Vienna, 5th of July 2016:
Database of Experienced Expert Evaluators
To join our expert evaluators database please fill in the application form and send it together with your CV to the contacts.
Food Waste Recovery Book
SIG5 supported the edition of the multi-author contributing book in Elsevier-Academic Press, entitled as "Food Waste Recovery: Processing Technologies and Industrial Techniques" (http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780128003510&pagename=search)
The SIG is aimed to:
  • Create an expert network to fill in the gap between academics, research institutes and food industry in terms of high added-value compounds recovery from agricultural by-products and food wastes
  • Provide training activities on the several aspects of food waste recovery
  • Exchange ideas, methodologies, scale up and commercialization experiences from the source to the final product
  • Implement education and research that can lead to the potential exploitation of food wastes and agricultural by-products as a nutraceuticals resource
  • Develop and coordinate common research activities and programs in the frame of food waste valorization and corresponding bioproducts processing
The main objectives of the group is the support of collaborations, common research and teaching projects.
  • Organizing webinars, seminars & e-learning coarse
  • Organizing collaborations & common publications
  • Submitting applications in joint calls (COST ACTION, Horizon 2020 etc)
  • Registered users would be able to participate in moderated discussion forums after login
The SIG is open to all interested people from academia and food industry as well as individual experts to actively contribute and collaborate. For more information and/or expression of interest please send email to the contacts or register (https://www.iseki-food.net/general/sigs/sig5) for membership select "non-member registration" and then SIG5.

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