Global nutrition is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity.
Scientists in Freising are now raising awareness of the topic.
Freising - "Sustainable" and "Healthy" - those were the two most frequently mentioned buzzwords on Friday.
The first Freising Innovation Day started there.
Virtually, of course.
The research institutions at the Weihenstephan science location had invited to the online innovation day on the subject of nutrition.
Lectures, films, podcasts and insights into laboratories or a research bakery awaited the visitors.
Whether nutritional advice, diet trends, intolerances or food novelties - nutrition and nutrition play an important role.
Mayor hopes from answers from Freising research institutes
In the summer of 2020, the Weihenstephan campus and its facilities wanted to offer such an innovation day - at that time still live -, but Corona thwarted the project.
That is why the eleven participating organizations had now decided to make an online offer.
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Hans Hauner, professor of nutritional medicine, wants to sensitize people to the global challenge of nutrition.
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And the field that had to be plowed is wide: How can food for the entire world population be secured even in times of population growth and climate change?
How must processes in agriculture or food production change in order to continue to feed the population healthily with sustainably produced, tasty food tomorrow?
Or as Lord Mayor Tobias Eschenbacher put it in his welcoming address: "We have many exciting institutions in Weihenstephan that provide answers to the questions that move the world." And perhaps, Eschenbacher continues, the corona pandemic taught us that To perceive the place where we live anew and to “discover new treasures”.
In ten to 15 years, around two billion people will be undernourished
This diversity of facilities in Freising was also the reason for the innovation day, as Hans Hauner, Professor of Nutritional Medicine at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and spokesman for the Freising-based competence cluster for nutrition research "enable", emphasized.
Thomas Becker, the dean of TUM in Weihenstephan, brought two figures with him that illustrate the importance of nutrition: in ten to 15 years, two billion people will be undernourished and two to three billion people will be over-nourished.
The aim of the Innovation Day is to raise awareness of the fact that food is an important area of research.
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Thomas Becker, TUM Dean: In ten to 15 years, two billion people will be undernourished.
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On Friday you could first watch two live lectures on YouTube: Hans Hauner spoke on the subject of "Eating today - tasty and healthy".
Professor Peter Eisner, Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging, gave a lecture on the subject of "Insects, in-vitro meat or vegan schnitzel: what will nutrition look like in the future?"
And from now on, the portal at www.enable-cluster.de/innovationstag-2021 will provide interesting information from the fields of the future of nutrition, food waste, sensory analysis, healthy and regional nutrition and many other exciting content.
Researchers are planning innovation day for next year
All of these contributions on the knowledge portal are continuously being expanded and are intended to make people want to see the “Freising Innovation Day on Nutrition 2022” planned for next summer.
And it should not take place digitally, but live as a face-to-face event.
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