Alimenta Summit’26 invites researchers, lecturers, graduate students, professionals, designers, nutritionists, chefs, culinary practitioners, territorial agents, institutions, and communities to submit proposals that foster reflection, experimentation, and transformation within contemporary food systems.
With the theme Designing Healthier Food Systems, the summit seeks interdisciplinary contributions that integrate food, gastronomy, nutrition, health, hospitality, tourism, sustainability, territory, and food design. The event promotes dialogue among scientific knowledge, professional practice, pedagogical innovation, and social impact.
Submissions may be presented in three formats: extended abstract, project, or poster.
Areas of Interest
Proposals should address one or more of the following thematic areas:
- Nutrition, Health, Food Behavior, and Communication: This area encompasses contributions on food choices, food education, health communication, behaviour change, nutrition education, strategies for promoting healthier eating habits, and approaches to engaging diverse audiences in more conscious food practices.
- Gastronomy, Hospitality, Tourism, and Well-Being: This area includes proposals examining the role of gastronomy, hospitality, and tourism in advancing health, pleasure, care, inclusion, sensory experience, well-being, and the cultural valorization of territories.
- Food Design, Service Design, and Food Systems: This area covers work on food design, service design, systems thinking, social innovation, sustainable transitions, participatory design, and the development of products, services, experiences, and strategies aimed at healthier and more sustainable food systems.
- Interdisciplinary Education and New Competencies: This area includes work on innovative pedagogical experiences, teaching models, academic projects with real-world impact, collaborative methodologies, challenge-based learning, innovation labs, inter- and transdisciplinary emerging practices, and emerging competencies for education in food, design, gastronomy, nutrition, hospitality, and health.
- Territory, Food Culture, Heritage, and Sustainability: This area encompasses work on local food cultures, territorial identity, gastronomic heritage, short food supply chains, sustainable practices, regional products, local ecosystems, communities, and the significance of territory in shaping healthier and culturally rooted food futures.
- Applied Innovation, Communities, and Social Impact: This area includes work, projects, case studies, and practices that investigate the relationships among food, inclusion, communities, public policies, institutions, the local economy, territorial regeneration, sustainability, and social impact.
Types of Submission
1. Extended abstract
The extended abstract format is intended for the presentation of scientific research, theoretical reflection, empirical studies, methodologies, pedagogical experiences, or professional practices with a critical framework and a clear contribution to the summit theme.
Requirements
The abstract should include:
– Title of the proposal
– Name, institutional affiliation, and email contact of the authors
– Main thematic area(s)
– Keywords
– Background / Context: Briefly introduce the project context, problem or opportunity identified;
– Objective / Purpose;
– Methodology / Approach / Case: Describe how the of the proposal, process, or intervention was conducted.
– Main Results, Contributions and Discussion: Main findings; Highlight the relationship with the theme Designing Healthier Food Systems.
– Essential bibliographic references
Submission link:
https://forms.gle/WqTn3cXYGky3dKuA6
2. Project
The project format is intended for the presentation of applied initiatives, prototypes, products, services, experiences, programs, methodologies, territorial interventions, and academic, professional, or community-based projects related to food systems.
This format prioritizes proposals with practical, experimental, visual, participatory, or applied dimensions, including those still in development.
Requirements
– Title of the proposal
– Name, institutional affiliation, and contact details of the authors
– Main thematic area(s)
– Keywords
– Background / Context: Briefly introduce the project context, problem or opportunity identified;
– Objective / Purpose;
– Methodology / Approach / Case: Describe how the of the proposal, process, or intervention was conducted.
– Main Results, Contributions and Discussion: Main findings; Highlight the relationship with the theme Designing Healthier Food Systems.
– Essential bibliographic references
Submission link:
https://forms.gle/WqTn3cXYGky3dKuA6
3. Poster
The poster format is intended for the visual and concise presentation of research, projects, pedagogical experiences, exploratory studies, design processes, methodologies, or applied practices.
Posters should clearly and visually communicate the problem, approach, main results, or contributions of the proposal in an accessible manner.
Requirements
– Title of the proposal
– Name, institutional affiliation, and contact details of the authors
– Main thematic area(s)
– Keywords
– Background / Context: Briefly introduce the project context, problem or opportunity identified;
– Objective / Purpose;
– Methodology / Approach / Case: Describe how the of the proposal, process, or intervention was conducted.
– Main Results, Contributions and Discussion: Main findings; Highlight the relationship with the theme Designing Healthier Food Systems.
– Essential bibliographic references
Submission link:
https://forms.gle/WqTn3cXYGky3dKuA6
Languages of Submission
Submissions are accepted in English.
Selected contributions will be included in the abstract publication, Book of Proceedings, manifesto, roadmap, and other future initiatives organized as part of the summit.
Submission
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