Welcome to the Winter schools held by DHI and ØFN.
Winter School 2010-2011
Individual Health & Nutrition
Winter School – say what?!
The Winter School concept is simple – identify an interesting and upcoming scientific theme within the food-pharma interface and organise six ½day seminars with high profiled speakers, and add to that engaged participants from both academia and industry. In addition arrange for the Winter School to be acknowledged as a PhD course at University level.
The Winter School concept was developed in 2008 with a clear vision to exchange knowledge and network across academia and industry, and hereby establish strong research collaborations. Two successful Winter Schools have been held so far. In 2008-2009 focus was on food, the gut and inflammation in relation to obesity and allergy. In 2009-2010 focus was on bioactive compounds in foods, function and documentation. In 2010-2011 focus will be on individual health and nutrition.
Individual Health & Nutrition – the theme for 2010-2011
During autumn and winter in 2010-2011 the Winter School will target health and nutrition from an individual and/or group based point of view. Food and medicine does not affect people in the same manner and it is very likely that the future will bring differentiated approaches with respect to promotion of health and public health information. Though, the scientific knowledge on individual health and nutrition is still in its cradle. It is therefore of great importance to gather and to exchange existing knowledge, to pin-point needs for future research and to bring relevant people from academia and industry together in an inspiring environment.
The Winter School 2010-2011 presents six seminars within the following overall topics (tentative):
- Individual Health & Nutrition: Status & Perspectives (5 October 2010)
- Diet-Gene interactions: Nutri- & Metagenomics (9 November 2010)
- Individual food (7 December 2010)
- Individual medicine (11 January 2011)
- Health promotion at individual or group level (8 February 2011)
- The future: Differentiation by "Nutri-types"? (8 March 2011)
Would you like to participate in an expert panel in the Winter School?
It is important for the Winter School that an active debate is promoted at the six seminars, and in addition continuity across the six seminars is wishful. To achieve this, the organising group would like to establish an expert panel of relevant people from both academia and industry – people who work within or are interested in this scientific area, and motivated to participate actively in most of the six seminars by preparing relevant questions and comments. This expert panel will increase the continuity and the possibility of establishing new cooperation and strong research projects.
Best regards
The organising group
(ActiFoods / KU Life, DHI group, LMC, Danish Food & Drink Federation, Øresund Food)
Find information about the previous Winter Schools on the following websites: www.oresund.org/food and www.food4health.dk.
At the six meetings we focus on the following questions: • What is state-of-the-art within the field in question? • What are the hypotheses? • Which results have been achieved? • What should future work focus on?
Registration: www.oresundfood.org and information: http://www.food4health.dk.
The group behind: Maria Olofsdotter, Mie Bendtsen (Øresund Food Network); Tine Jess (Copenhagen University Hospital and DanORC); Peter Olesen (KU-Life/ActiFoods ApS); Anders Permin, Lisbeth Valentin Hansen, Eva Høy Engelund (Centre for Environment and Toxicology, DHI)
