Events

WASTELESS hosts a series of Monthly Café Talks, on the third Friday of the month at 11.00 CET, to engage with all stakeholders in the food value chain on topics related to Food Loss and Waste. These 30 minutes meetings are aimed at encouraging the exchange of views and best practices on FLW measuring, monitoring and valorisation strategies between all food value chain actors, from primary producers to consumers, policy makers, researchers and others.

UPCOMING CAFÉ TALKS:

Café talk December

The effect of socio-demographics on measured household food waste by Gulbanu Kaptan, University of Leeds

13th of December

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PAST CAFÉ TALKS:

Café talk November

The best practices to reduce FLW in the agrifood sector offered  by R&I, Maurizio Notarfonso, ENEA

Available here

Café talk October

Waste at the warehouse: A commercial food waste reduction story by Ylva Haglund, Scottish Wholesale Association

Available here

Café talk September

Household food waste - current data and possibilities for reduction by Atilla Kunszabó University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest

Available here

Café talk July

The best practices to reduce FLW in the agrifood sector offered by R&I by Federica Grant, CREA, Food and Nutrition Research Center

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Café talk June

The Italian Observatory on Food Losses and Waste: policies and actions by Laura Rossi, CREA, Food and Nutrition Research Center

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Café talk May

Reframing the food system for circularity by Alice Casiraghi, Food Policy Milano

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Café talk April

Unlocking Value: Harnessing By-products for Innovation in New Food Products by Ana Barros, UTAD

Available here

WASTELESS organizes webinars in collaboration with similar projects and initiatives to offer a chance to all interested stakeholders to interact directly with experts in the field, share knowledge, create connections and synergies and foster innovation.

‘Current developments in Food Loss & Waste reduction’

On June 17th and 18th, WASTELESS hosted together with the sister project FOLOU a dynamic online free webinar and brought together experts in the field of food losses and waste to discuss the current status and latest developments. More than 300 people registered for the webinar and attended in the two days the different sessions. Representatives of several EU projects working in the field of food loss and waste presented their goals and achievements and share valuable insights from their work. The sessions of the webinar are all available on the WASTELESS YouTube channel. 

WASTELESS organises round tables as expert consultations on different topics to ensure the good development of the project. These are closed events with invited guests. If you want to join you need to be a member of the WASTELSS Community of Practice.

UPCOMING ROUND TABLES:

Policy recommendations for experts and policy makers, at national and European level based on WASTELESS results

June 2025

Participants: FLW experts, representatives of similar projects, European and national policy makers 

PAST ROUND TABLES:

Set up an alliance to improve FLW measuring and monitoring: participants, goals, approaches and methods

04TH June 2024

Participants: FLW experts and representatives of similar projects 

Results: to be published in Deliverable 1.4 (December 2025)

Available here