Featured at FARO DE VIGO: Simal will participate in a conference in Brussels on food sustainability.

Jesús Simal, researcher and professor at the Faculty of Science of Ourense, will participate in the next 4th of March in the event “Driving Sustainability Through Healthy Diets”, to be held in Brussels.

The event will be framed within SOSFood project, a project led by UVigo and that counts with 17 different organisations from all over Europe. Professor Simal, from AA1 Group (Agricultural and Food Research Group) is the Principal Investigator of the project and will be in charge of closing the conference.

The conference will be held at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), and will feature guest speakers such as the Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), the Secretariat of the City of Milano for the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, the Spanish Confederation of Consumer and User Cooperatives, the industry groups FoodDrinkEurope and Independent Retail Europe, and Safe Food Advocacy Europe, an association whose main mission is to improve the representation of ordinary citizens in the EU debate concerning the future of EU food regulation.