"Safeguarding Food Security in Europe: Managing Fraud, Crisis Risks, CBR and Cyber Threats" This joint webinar brings together four Horizon Europe projects - EFF-CoP, SecureFood, ACT4FOOD, and DEFENSEFOOD - to discuss the growing challenges to food security, including food fraud, cybersecurity, CBR threats, and food system resilience. Through expert presentations, interactive discussions, and a live Q&A, discover how collaboration and innovation are helping build a more secur

Advancing Food System Security: From Early Signals to Systemic Resilience In this joint webinar, EFF-CoP, SecureFood, ACT4FOOD, and DEFENSEFOOD come together to discuss how research and cross-project collaboration are strengthening food system resilience through: 🔹 Food fraud prevention and authenticity 🔹 Digital food safety and emerging technologies 🔹 Cyber-physical threats to the food supply chain 🔹 Food defense and future risk preparedness Featuring expert presentation

The 17th & 18th of June marked the end of the Data4Food2030 project and our sister project Titan. Their achievements were celebrated in Brussels during this two day conference, where the EFF-CoP was also well represented. Joris Boom of UCD delivered a presentation titled: "EFF-CoP - Strengthening the fight against food fraud through novel education methods". Petter Olsen of Nofima went the extra mile with two presentations with the theme "Detecting, and preventing food fraud

Wisdom of Expert Crowds: the FoodSafeR Open Digital Hub anticipating emerging risks in food safety On 3 June 2026, the EFF-CoP, in collaboration with the FoodSafeR Project, successfully hosted an online webinar dedicated to emerging food safety risks, digital innovation, traceability, and food fraud prevention. The webinar introduced the FoodSafeR Open Digital Hub and demonstrated how expert knowledge, collaborative intelligence, and digital technologies can support the antic

🎥 The EFF-CoP Interactive Roundtable Discussion, held online on 15 May 2026, brought together experts, researchers, and EU-funded projects for an engaging exchange on “Reducing Food Waste through Innovation: Enhancing Efficiency and Sustainability in Food Systems.” The discussion highlighted how innovation, policy, technology, and collaboration can contribute to reducing food waste across the entire food value chain — from production and processing to markets and consumers —

The THEROS_project final meeting took place on 2 December! 🎉 Hosted in a hybrid format at the Amalia Hotel and co-organised by I-SENSEGroup/ICCS and SEAbility Ltd, the event highlighted how the EU-funded THEROS_project contributes to creating more trustworthy, transparent and authentic food systems. 🌍 EFF-CoP: European Food Fraud Community of Practice was there, with an online presentation delivered by the project coordinator, Saskia van Ruth. 🎤 Her presentation was titled

The EFF-CoP Interactive Roundtable Discussion, held online on 25 November 2025, focused on resilience in the food supply chain 🌾🔒 and the points where food fraud 🍽️⚠️ can occur. Experts from the SecureFood project and EFF-CoP shared insights on supply chain vulnerabilities, risk interdependencies, and predictive approaches using machine learning 🤖📊. Here you can find Roundtable's Agenda! 🎥 Watch here the video from the Roundtable, just in case you missed it!

The Cost Action SensAIfood had it's final three day conference in Tirana, Albania. On the third day Joris Boom from UCD organised a workshop for the participants, encouraging collaboration and out-of-the box thinking. The session began with a brief introduction to EFF-CoP and some early results, followed by an energizing activity to engage all participants. The main exercise invited participants to imagine a food fraud case in 2050 🕵️‍♂️, exploring: 1. the type of fraud and

After our first and very successful webinar 🎉, entitled "Food Fraud Synergies", you can find the recording 📺 HERE to watch it again or to catch up in case you couldn’t participate. Thanks to our speakers, we were able to dive into the topic of food fraud and learn about projects that are working to detect it. If you don't want to miss other EFF-CoP event stay tuned and follow us on our LinkedIn account https://www.eff-cop.eu/post/workshop-food-fraud-synergies