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Call for Proposals: School Meals Coalition Week -One year since its launch!

The School Meals Coalition Week will be held on October 11-14, 2022. It will be a series of virtual events, led by partners and managed by the School Meals Coalition Secretariat to celebrate the first year since the launch of the Coalition and to put the focus on what needs to be done moving forward to achieve the Coalition’s objectives.

The Coalition is launching an open call for proposals for ideas to shape School Meals Coalition Week programming to complement sessions already being organized that will provide updates on the work of the Coalition’s initiatives and its leading governments.

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CALL FOR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS: SCIENCE BY WOMEN

Women for Africa Foundation is launching the 8th call for fellowships of the program Science by Women, aimed at selecting 22 senior African women scientists to be integrated into 21 top research Spanish centers for a six month research stay, in the following areas: health and biomedicine, agriculture and food security, water, energy and climatic change.
Deadline for applications: September 30, 2022

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The GIAHS 20th Anniversary

Join the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) programme´s 20th anniversary.

Advocate for your GIAHS site by contributing to FAO´s initiative.

GIAHS “…sites are resilient systems characterized by remarkable agrobiodiversity, traditional knowledge, invaluable cultures and landscapes, sustainably managed by farmers, herders, fisherfolk, and forest people in ways that contribute to their livelihoods and food security.” (FAO, 2022)

Launch event of the Coalition of Action on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems for Children and All

Friday, 13 May 2022 14:00 to 15:00 (CEST) Health, nutrition and environmental sustainability need to be core, cross-cutting foundations of food systems transformation. During the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) of 2021 the call for action to deliver healthy diets from sustainable food systems echoed through dialogues, social movements and national pathways. Formed as […]

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International Fellowship Opportunity

Applications are invited to the Urban Studies Foundation’s International Fellowships for urban scholars from the Global South. Each award will cover the cost of a sabbatical period at a university of the candidate’s choice, worldwide, for the purpose of writing up the candidate’s existing research findings in the form of publishable articles and/or a book. Deadline: 9 May 2022

British Nutrition Foundation Drummond Early Career Scientist Award 2022.

The award recognises early-career nutrition scientists, whether working in academia, policy or industry, who show great potential to be future leaders in the field.
Applications are welcome from any country.

Applicants are required to complete an application form and submit an abstract that could be turned into a mini-review describing an emerging area of human nutrition science that would be suitable for submission to the British Nutrition Foundation’s peer-reviewed journal Nutrition Bulletin.

Register Now: Gastronomic Sciences 360º: A Global Outlook on Human Health and Wellness

April 27 -28th The symposium, organized by Basque Culinary Center, together with the Cedars Sinai Medical Center of Los Angeles, an international referent in medicine, will bring together great professionals from the field of medicine, nutrition, sustainability, gastronomy, sociology and food of the future, to explore from different points of view the current food and welfare of society.

Establishing a Federation of Oceanic Nutrition Societies (FONS)

Stakeholders from eight countries across the Pacific Islands, Australia, and New Zealand met virtually on March 9th, 2022, to discuss the viability and next steps for establishing FONS (The Federation of Oceanic Nutrition Societies), a potential new IUNS Affiliated Body to represent the collective voice of nutrition in the Oceanic region.