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EU funding (€2,998,444): Optimising food information and communication towards healthier and more sustainable dietary patterns Hor25 Oct 2024 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Optimising food information and communication towards healthier and more sustainable dietary patterns
Food choices are determined by a wide range of factors (socio-economic conditions, gender, age, etc.). On top of this, mainstream media, social media, and marketing play an important role in food choices, but how they do so is not well understood, nor is the knowledge sufficiently applied to promoting healthy and sustainable diets and discouraging less healthy and less sustainable ones. Infoodmation aims to fill these gaps by increasing the knowledge of how these sources of food information influence food consumption and using it to develop best practices for food system actors, policies, and regulations to support healthier and more sustainable dietary patterns. The project will identify approaches, tools, channels, techniques, and messages used by the private sector, governments, and civil society (Infoodmation Key Actors) to communicate about food (also focusing on vulnerable groups, such as children, adolescents and those of a low socio-economic status). These effects will be assessed, alongside the effectiveness of parental control, the impact of negative vs. positive messages and the effects and spread of misinformation (and how to counter it). EU legislation related to food information will be evaluated in light of these findings, as will policy measures at the national, regional, and local levels in EU member states. These analyses will result in a compendium of best practices, policy briefs, and recommendations for responsible business strategies addressing different Key Actors, supported by capacity building tools and an open-access Knowledge Hub of results, recommendations and materials on food communication. Continuous consultation with food system actors will ensure that the recommendations are relevant, fair, feasible, and adaptable to different contexts. Infoodmation consists of a multidisciplinary consortium with an extensive network of Key Actors, multi-stakeholder initiatives and EU-funded projects related to healthy and sustainable eating.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Aarhus Universitet | €481,834 |
| Beinfluence | €96,000 |
| European Food Information Council | €599,000 |
| Fundacion Maldita.Es Contrala Desinformacion: Periodismoeducacion Investigaciony Datos en Nuevos Formatos | €174,375 |
| Globaz SA | €223,063 |
| Iclei European Secretariat GmbH (Iclei Europasekretariat GmbH) | €118,250 |
| Institut ZA Nutricionistiko Ljubljana | €121,675 |
| Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | €427,007 |
| Wageningen University | €408,553 |
| Zentrum FUR Soziale Innovation GmbH | €348,688 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101182813
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