PROOF Project: Food Innovation Park

Wednesday, March 1, marks the opening of a new research building around nutrition and health at the Food Innovation Park in Roeselare, Belgium. The building brings together various research activities including a taste laboratory, a research space around regenerating food and an  expanded space for medical screening.

This building is one of the results of the PROOF project: a collaboration between Flemish and Dutch partners, including Brightlands in Venlo, in which expertise of healthcare professionals, (food) companies and knowledge institutions is combined to develop tailored nutrition for people with chronic care needs. In addition to the opening of the building, the opening on March 1 will also feature PROOF's other project results.

Program

Results of the PROOF project | morning | 10:30 am to 12:30 pm

11.00h Welcome - Britt van Belkom | Brightlands

11.02hClarification of the ambitions of the PROOF project: 'can we develop nutrition tailored to the needs of the caregiver?' - Remco Havermans | Maastricht University

11.10h How can nutrition help to counteract sarcopenia (muscle weakness in the elderly)? Companies, care institutions and knowledge institutions worked in cocreation on protein-enriched soups - Barbare Plovie | Hogeschool VIVES

11.25h What is the impact of nutrition on the well-being of patients with COPD, a chronic lung disease? What happens with their taste acceptance? From a scientific approach, the partners went in search of answers - Remco Havermans | Maastricht University

11.40h To measure the impact of adapted nutrition on patients, the partners worked on an app for screening and follow-up. How does it work in practice? And how do you get the caregiver to use the app? - Mark Linders | Green Habit Joris Wille | BeWell Innovations

12.00h Presentation of the Food Innovation Park (BE) and the Clinical Research Unit (NL), two new research facilities that combine expertise around "nutrition and health" - An Sofie Pinket | Factory for the Future Nutrition

12.20h Closing remarks

12.30h Lunch

Opening of the Food Innovation Park | afternoon | 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm

13.30h Reception and welcome at Agrotopia (Agrotopia is within walking distance of the Food Innovation Park) 14.00h Keynote | Michaël Sels: "(W)eat what's good for your body" Michaël Sels is a dietician, author, speaker and chef. He is chief dietician at Antwerp University Hospital. He is responsible for complex nutritional care, but he also shares his knowledge and experience, interspersed with personal stories full of surprising first-hand experiences. 2:45 pm Panel discussion Jean de Bethune (President of POM West Flanders) Joris Hindryckx (General Director of Hogeschool VIVES) Jan Vander Stichele (Chairman of Flanders' FOOD) Kris Declercq (Mayor of Roeselare) 15.50h Visit: we will visit the new building at the Food Innovation Park. 16.30h Networking moment in Agrotopia 18.00hEnd

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