Recurring, Online, Next event: 1 December 12.00-13.00 CET Welcome to the Spotlight on Food Fraud Café! ​ The European Food Fraud Community of Practice (EFF-CoP) has launched the Spotlight on Food Fraud Café. This is a casual, online meeting space to discuss the latest work in finding and preventing food fraud. The main goal of the Café is to give early career researchers (ECRs), students and postdocs, a welcoming place to present their projects. It is a great chance to share

"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

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 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!

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

EFF-CoP’s first community-wide event, titled "Igniting Conversations in the European Food Fraud Community" took place on June 26, bringing together over 100 engaged attendees. We had a fantastic time connecting with the community, exchanging valuable insights, and hearing from some of the leading experts in the field of food fraud. The event offered a great opportunity to meet new colleagues and build on the spirit of collaboration established during our kick-off meeting - wh