The second COMFOCUS roundtable with food consumer science experts on how to overcome the challenges in harmonising approaches has taken place in Tatras, Slovakia on May 16th, 2024.
Discussion started with considering what is science community and whether one belongs to one, and should there be a community to food consumer science.
Seminar Series of COMFOCUS is a consumer research exchange aimed at enhancing our fellows’ studies within a supportive environment. Every two weeks, fellows can present their study and get some feedback from other fellows.
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We are organising an online Academic Training, which is part of COMFOCUS Summer School! The aim of the training is to demonstrate and disseminate harmonised measurements, protocols, datasets and to study best practices in the field of food consumer science (FCS).
Academic Training is another great opportunity to learn with COMFOCUS and other fellows and get insights into the latest developments in the field!
The event is taking place on November 20, 2023, 14:00 – 16:00 (CET)!
Please REGISTER for the event and feel free to share this invitation with others!
We hope to see you there!
The workshop is taking place from 15-30 to 17-00 (CET).
Workshop: Why we eat what we eat: Better understanding of healthy eating patterns in practice Explore the future of food behavior research!
Join our COMFOCUS workshop for insightful presentations and discussions:
Pre-registration is required. Hope to see you there!
We will discuss the objectives, scope and expected outcomes of the Open Call 2 and will guide you through our research facilities where you, as an early career researcher, will be able to conduct research using innovative technologies, such as eye-tracking, skin conductance, and make use of state-of-the-art virtual reality equipment.
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We invite you to the workshop where we will discuss the objectives and expected outcomes of the Open Call 2 and will virtually guide potential applicants and interested scientists through our research facilities for conducting consumer research experiments.
Please be informed that by participating in the workshop you are giving your permission to use all materials, taken during the workshop, for the COMFOCUS purposes.
COMFOCUS is organizing the workshop where we will discuss the objectives and expected outcomes of the Open Call 2 and will virtually guide potential applicants and interested scientists through our research facilities for conducting consumer research experiments.
Please be informed that participating in the workshop, you are giving your permission to use all photo/video materials, taken during the event, for the COMFOCUS purposes.
COMFOCUS is organising a second Spanish round table discussion with food consumer science experts on how we can get more out of our food consumer data and respond to the demands of open science in the field. The roundtable is part of COMFOCUS project activities and many of you attended the first workshop in March last year. The workshop is taking place on June, 19, 2023.
In this workshop we will discuss the challenges in harmonising approaches to research and sharing data once it has served its primary purpose. In COMFOCUS project we wish to try out, as a proof-of-concept, how data science approach can help us to compare and combine data from different studies. At the round table, we wish to get feedback on our approach and discuss the possibilities and challenges it presents to the future of food consumer science.
Join our online workshop/discussion on June, 8, 2023 14:00 – 15:30 CET. The workshop is of interest for companies using or making commercial tools for Food and Consumer Scientists.
We will demonstrate free novel tooling that allows your scientists to relate their study results to similar studies that have already been done, allowing your user’s experiments to gain in international importance.
The EU funded COMFOCUS project https://comfocus.eu/ is creating tools that allow you to re-use the data from previous FCS studies with minimal extra work.
This workshop is the follow up of last year’s workshop which aimed to bring together commercial stakeholders and inform on the harmonization efforts in the context of Food & Consumer Science.
This introduction was well attended and we are now organising the follow up. This time we will demonstrate our tooling and invite you to give us feedback. The tooling will at project end be made available publicly.
Please register using the following the link https://forms.gle/RV3FEL5jdAg8TUrk7
A link to the meeting will be sent to your email address after registration.
Please be informed that by participating in the workshop, you are giving your permission to use all materials taken/discussed during the workshop for the COMFOCUS purposes.
We are looking forward to see you soon!
Enabling future-proof food consumer science: the role of BIG(ger)data from interlinking our efforts
Workshop International Food Marketing Research Symposium (IFMRS) Prague, Tuesday June 13, 2023: 14.30-16.30 hours at Hotel International Prague (suggested conference hotel at Koulova 15, 160 00 Prague).
Simply register by sending e-mail to Ellen.vanKleef@wur.nl or filling out this registration form https://forms.gle/ugiaBmgoPi14YVa46 before June 9.
Join us at our upcoming workshop to explore the latest developments in the field of food consumer science. Lots of efforts within these fields focus on understanding how individuals’ perceptions, beliefs and attitudes affect food choice decisions and purchase behaviours. These efforts are usually shared at the level of social infrastructures (conferences and meetings, student, and staff exchanges). However, at the level of institutes and data there is opportunity to enhance the current state of measures and validation methods, as well as to increase collaboration and accessibility within research infrastructures. With a focus on the importance of making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR), as well as the essential role of marketing, sensory and consumer science in health and sustainability transitions, we will delve into key opportunities and challenges in this area.
The aim of the workshop is to present and discuss state of the art in approaches to enhance data sharing in food consumer science. In addition, the aim is also to identify and discuss potential ways forward in further added value of joint efforts in this field on the basis of FAIR data and facilities.
After a brief introduction to the theme by Dr Ellen van Kleef, the workshop will continue with a series of short presentations on key topics. We will use interactive tools, such as Mentimeter, to engage the audience. These presentations will include:
To ensure that the workshop is informed by current perspectives of scientists in the marketing and food consumer science, a short pre-workshop survey will be conducted among colleagues in Spring 2023. The results of this survey will deliver input for the short presentations and provide a basis for possible solutions to be discussed during the workshop. Participants will be encouraged to actively engage in discussion and provide feedback on the topics presented.
By the end of the workshop, the attendees will have a deeper understanding of the state of the art in harmonization of measures and data sharing as well as strategies to address them. In addition, the workshop will provide the COMFOCUS project with the opportunity to learn from critical input and insights from experts and attendees in the field.
This workshop is initiated by COMFOCUS project members. Based on open science principles, the EU-funded COMFOCUS project (www.comfocus.eu) has been working on this topic of advancing the food consumer science discipline from data interlinking. One of the key objectives of the COMFOCUS project is to harmonize and advance the European food consumer science community by promoting a harmonized, data-rich approach to research. See also Science talk Hans van Trijp at https://www.sciencetalks-journal.com/article/S2772-5693(23)00031-2/fulltext