EFAD's General Meeting takes place in October

For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, delegates of our member National Dietetic Associations, Higher Education Institutes Committees and Specialist Networks will be meeting in person to shape commitment and action to improve nutritional health and sustainable diets in Europe.

This year’s annual meeting is extensive with workshops for our member delegates. Next year, in October, we will organize our EFAD Congress again for all Dietitians.  

 Find out more today.

ENDietS is recruiting for Nutrition & Dietetic Students

ENDietS is looking for enthusiastic Nutrition & Dietetic Students to apply to be part of the ENDietS Team. 

• Junior Promotion and Recruitment Anchors
• Junior National Key Contact Anchors
• National Key Contacts (National Representatives)

 Find out more today.

Microbiome and cancer

The current review will discuss recent ad­vances and bring together literature from related fields in nutrition, oncology and immunology to discuss possible means of modulating immunity to improve responses to current checkpoint inhibitor therapy (CIT). 

 Read the article.
 

European Forum for Primary Care receives industry-renowned award 

European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC), which EFAD is proud to be a member of, has won the UN Interagency Task Force & the WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care Award. This acolade acknowledges EFPC as an exemplary platform for primary healthcare professionals to collaborate and jointly strengthen action across Europe, including advocating for ever stronger, fairer and equitable primary care.

 Find out more today.

Save the date - European Parliament lunch debate on Diabetes

On 12 October International Diabetes Federation Europe, alongside all diabetes stakeholders, and MEPs Mobilising for Diabetes will be running a lunchtime debate at the European Parliament in Brussels, hosted by MEP István Ujhelyi. He has been a long-standing supporter of the diabetes cause and a strong ally of the diabetes community.

During the event, diabetes advocates will share real-life stories of living with diabetes and reflect on the urgent need for a new diabetes resolution in 2022 to improve diabetes care and build resilient and sustainable health systems. 

 Register today.

EUFIC: How to reduce food waste at home

Around 88 million tonnes of food is wasted in the EU every year, with more than half coming from households. But we can all take action by changing the way we shop, cook, and plan our meals to avoid wasting food, money, and resources.

Here's some top tips from EUFIC:

1. Plan your meals
2. Know how to store your food
3. Understand ‘use by’ vs ‘best before’ dates
4. Use what you have
5. Avoid serving too much
6. Know your moulds
7. Share extra food with others
8. Repurpose waste where possible

 Find out more about the tips from EUFIC.

EU Health Policy Platform Stakeholder Network produces report

The EU Health Policy Platform Stakeholder Network on ‘Profiling and Training the Healthcare Workforce of the Future’ report was launched on 22 September in the European Parliament and EFAD endorsed the report.

The report on ‘Essential skills for a resilient and effective European health workforce’ tackles the question of what essential skills the European health workforce needs to have in coping with 21st Century challenges such as demographic change, the increasing number of chronic and non-communicable diseases or the digital and green transitions. 

 Read more.

Commissioner comments on the Farm to Fork Strategy

The EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, gave a statement regarding the Farm to Fork Strategy on the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste.

 Find out more.

Action is needed to support the gap in health and care workforce in the European region

All countries of the WHO European Region encompassing 53 Member States across Europe and central Asia currently face severe challenges related to the health and care workforce, according to a new report released by WHO/Europe. An ageing workforce is chief among them.

The analysis finds that 13 of the 44 countries that reported data on this issue have a workforce in which 40% of medical doctors are already aged 55 years or older.

 Read the press release.

ESPEN Webinar - Clinical nutrition in surgery

11 October 2022
Online

This webinar will have a range of speakers who are experts in clinical nutrition. The full programme is available on the ESPEN website.

 Find out more and register.

WholEUGrain Final Conference
25 October 2022
Ljubljana, Slovenia

The WholEUGrain project, which was launched to transfer the Danish best practice model for a wholegrain partnership to other countries, is having a summary conference in October.

 Find out more and register.

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EFAD launches a new Learning Library

This new academic season, we are delighted to announce that the EFAD Learning Library, has officially launched. This has been a highly anticipated EFAD project, supported by unrestricted educational grants by Danone and Nestle, which we warmly thank.

Our main goal is to support the lifelong learning of all European dietitians and that is why our courses are dietitian-led and evidence-based, with materials to embed in practice and take your learning in new directions. The EFAD Learning Library will be an online resources educational platform that will host courses, podcasts, webinars, and many more to come.
 
We aim to support your learning with diverse yet relevant topics that apply to the daily professional challenges. EFAD believes that learning is an integral part of our professional development. As an EFAD Learning member, you will have free access to our flexible and self-directed courses developed for all career stages from students to experienced dietitians.

Each course has educational resources developed by our international experts that bring practical and real-world experience to each topic. 

Three new online courses are now available and part of the EFAD Learning Library: 
 

   Sustainability in Dietetics
   Health through Gut 
   Digital Nutrition Communication

As there are limited seats available, make sure that you secure your registration as soon as possible. If you don’t make it this time, keep an eye on our next Newsflash and our social media, so you don't miss the announcement for when new registrants’ “seats” become available.

 Join for free now.

EFAD urges nutritional care to be the topic of focus at WHO Regional Committee Europe meeting

A call to embed nutritional care into the prevention and control of Non-Communicable Diseases was the message EFAD made in its statement at the 72^nd session of the WHO Regional Committee meeting for Europe. The statement was co-signed by 10 other European Organisations. 

Nutrition interventions improve clinical and socioeconomic outcomes as well as health-related quality of life and therefore should be integrated in policies and interventions taken to address NCDs. Every European citizen must have access to nutritional care. Here is a video message from Annemieke van Ginkel-Res, Honorary President of the European Federation of the Associations of Dietitians (EFAD) to explain more.

EFAD also joined other statements made at the 3-day meeting, on the importance of integrating Behavioural & Cultural Insights, the WHO Digital Health Action Plan, the European Alcohol Framework, and recommendations on Obesity.

In 2018 EFAD was accredited to the WHO Europe as a non-state actor. This allows us to improve further collaboration at a European level and work maybe work towards better health across Europe.

 Read all the statements.

EFAD calls for officers for dietetic network committees

EFAD is calling for nominations for enthusiastic colleagues who wish to contribute to the work of the various specialist dietetic network committees for 2022 to 2026. The deadline is Friday 30 September 2022.

 Find out more today.

The Influence of Oral and Gut Microbiota on Nitrate Supplementation and Sports Performance

This article looks at how the oral/gut microbiota plays a significant role in nitrate metabolism and how it can assist in improving sports performance.

 Read the article.
 

Empowering consumers to make healthy and sustainable choices

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published the results of four scientific studies related to food information to consumers. This covers front of pack nutrition labelling, market analysis of the labelling of alcoholic drinks, food information through other means than on labels and origin labelling.

 Read more here.

IARC researchers predict increase in colorectal cancer by 2040

In a new study, researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) provide estimates of the incidence of and mortality from colorectal cancer in 185 countries in 2020 and predictions of the future burden in 2040. 

The authors predict that by 2040 the burden of colorectal cancer will increase to 3.2 million new cases per year (an increase of 63%) and 1.6 million deaths per year (an increase of 73%). The authors predict that by 2040 the burden of colorectal cancer will increase to 3.2 million new cases per year (an increase of 63%) and 1.6 million deaths per year (an increase of 73%).

 Read more here.

EFPC Conference 2022: Integrated Community Care: a new opportunity for Primary Care
25-27 September
Ghent, Belgium or online

The European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC) Organizing Committee is now facilitating the EFPC 2022 Conference virtually - so all those interested in joining, but who cannot get to Ghent, can register for online participation and access the main lectures.

 Find out more and register.

11th Central European Congress on Food and Nutrition
27-30 September
Čatež ob Savi, Slovenia

The theme for this congress is "Food, technology and nutrition for healthy people in a healthy environment".

 Find out more and register.

ESPEN Webinar - Clinical nutrition in surgery

11 October 
Online

This webinar will have a range of speakers who are experts in clinical nutrition. The full programme is available on the ESPEN website.

 Find out more and register.

WholEUGrain Final Conference
25 October 
Ljubljana, Slovenia

The WholEUGrain project, which was launched with an aim to transfer the Danish best practice model for a whole grain partnership to other countries will be having a summary conference in October.

 Find out more and register.

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The EFAD Learning Library is ready to launch 🚀

Dear EFAD members, partners and delegates,
Dear colleagues and friends,

This new academic season, we are more than delighted and excited to announce that our exciting project, the EFAD Learning Library, is now officially launched. This has been a highly anticipated EFAD project, supported by unrestricted educational grants by Danone and Nestle, which we warmly thank.

Our main aim and goal are to support the Life Long Learning of European Dietitians and that is why our courses are dietitian-led and evidence-based, with materials to embed in practice and take their learning in new directions. The EFAD Learning Library will be an online resources educational platform that will host courses, podcasts, webinars and many more to come.

Each course has educational resources developed by our international experts that bring practical and real-world experience to each topic. 

Three new online courses are now available and part of the EFAD Learning Library: 

  Sustainability in Dietetics
  Health through Gut 
  Digital Nutrition Communication

as well as 4 Podcasts episodes:

  EFAD and its people
  Sustainability in Dietetics
  Health through Gut
  Digital Nutrition Communication

We truly value our collaboration and your contribution to EFAD, and we would like to offer you the opportunity to join the platform, explore around, watch the courses and share with us your valuable feedback. There are limited seats available for the time being and we are shortly planning to disseminate it widely to our bigger audience (we will need your support on this!), so please make sure that you secure your registration.

Join us and watch our online and self-directed courses at your own pace.

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    Click here to join the library.

A few words from EFAD's ELLL Committee Lead

The EFAD Learning Library is an innovative learning resource, that I am pleased to introduce as the latest scholarly activity led by the Education and Lifelong Learning Committee. 
A key part of EFAD’s mission is to support the dietetic workforce with ongoing opportunities for continued professional development. The European Advanced Competence Standards provide dietitians with a framework to plan for further learning together with opportunities for reflection and application throughout their careers. 
The Learning Library currently offers 3 courses and more resources will be added in time. Evidencing such learning through learning points provides documentation for dietitians of remaining fit for purpose. 
The development of the Learning Library has involved many colleagues and represents a wonderful EFAD team effort. We look forward to hearing stories regarding your engagement and your feedback.

Dr Fiona McCullough

Education & Life Long Learning Committee Lead

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