Toni Caimari, Director of the Biotechnology Area of Eurecat, participated in the final event of SWITCHtoHEALTHY project, held in the city of Barcelona on March 27, 2025. During the event, he offered a presentation of MED4Youth, a project coordinated by Eurecat and funded under the PRIMA Programme of the European Union. [...]
Project partners from the University of Parma (UNIPR) disseminated two MED4Youth related posters during the National Congress of the Italian Society of Human Nutrition (SINU) celebrated from 4th – 6th of June in Piacenza, Italy. Claudia Favari, project partner and Assistant Professor in Human Nutrition at the Department of Food and [...]
Alice Rosi, Assistant Professor in Human Nutrition at the Department of Food & Drugs of the University of Parma, presented the MED4Yotuh project at the annual regional meeting of the Italian Human Nutrition Society (SINU) Emilia Romagna and Marche regional section, that took place in Parma, Italy, on the 24th of [...]
Alice Rosi, Assistant Professor in Human Nutrition at the Department of Food & Drugs of the University of Parma, attended the 14th European Nutrition Conference (FENS 2023) that took place in Belgrade, Serbia, from 14th – 17th of November. During the session “Nutrition across the lifecourse”, Alice Rosi presented an oral [...]
MED4Youth project’s partner University of Parma participated in the 16th European Public Health Conference in Dublin, Ireland, from 8th – 11th of November. Francesca Scazzina, Associate Professor of human nutrition at the Department of Food and Drug of the University of Parma, participated in the workshop “Obesity: the greatest burden of [...]
Project partners from Panishop organised and participated in three training activities with students specialised in gastronomy, cooking and traditional bakery, with the objective to present the MED4Youth project. Guillermo Saldaña, technical and scientific assistant at Panishop, attended the sessions and introduced MED4Youth as a key European project working to demonstrate the [...]
The MED4Youth consortium met to celebrate a new project's General Assembly on 23 - 24 of October in University of Parma facilities (Parma, Italy). During the meeting, project's partners reviewed all the work done, showcased the main results of the study and planned the next steps and actions to be achieved [...]
Eurecat, the MED4Youth’s coordinator, participated in ExproReus, the multi-sectorial fair of reference in Tarragona area, celebrated from 11th – 15th of October in Fira Reus (Tarragona, Spain). Lorena Calderón, researcher at the Nutrition & Health Unit of Eurecat, participated in the event, under the framework of the FoodTech & Nutrition Hub, [...]
Partners from the University of Parma (Department of Medicine and Surgery, Parma University Hospital) participated in the annual meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology, focused on “Global Challenges in Paediatric Endocrinology”, taking place from 21st – 23rd of September in The Hague, Netherlands. The European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology [...]
From MED4Youth, one of the main objectives is to demonstrate that a Mediterranean diet enriched with products typical of the Mediterranean, such as pomegranate, chickpeas/hummus, nuts and sourdough bread, is more effective in maintaining an optimal weight and healthy habits than a conventional low-fat diet among adolescents. In this sense, the an interventional nutrition [...]
