SPI organised and participated in the COMFOCUS Academic Training in Bologna, Italy on October 10th 2024
On February 10th 2024, SPI organised and participated in the Academic Training of COMFOCUS in Bologna, Italy. The event was hosted by the University of Bologna, Department of Agri-food Sciences and Technologies.
Academic Training of COMFOCUS aims to demonstrate and disseminate harmonised measurements, protocols, datasets and to study best practices in the field of food consumer science.
The main theme of the training was the future of COMFOCUS: project ambition and vision, challenges that the food consumer science field faces challenges in the modern world, strong worldwide need to change diets to prevent diseases, climate change and environmental harm.
The event also hosted several insightful sessions on EEG approaches, investigation of the properties of fragrances in humans, choice experiments in virtual settings and on measuring psychophysiological signals in a harmonized way.
Forty-five participants took part in the event with the mentorship of the consortium members and International Advisory Board (IAB) member of COMFOCUS.
SPI organised the event and hosted the session on sustainability and the future of COMFOCUS, which has to give a great contribution to the project life after its end.