To share scientific knowledge with scientists and health professionals, the Danone Institutes promote scientific exchanges by organizing scientific meetings, symposia or workshops. They involve some of the most renowned experts worldwide. These events present the most recent developments in the field of food, alimentation, nutrition and health, identify new research avenues, and explore the practical implications of new knowledges.
The Danone Institute International has the honor to announce that the 3rd edition of the Danone International Prize for Alimentation is awarded to Dr. Heather Eicher-Miller (Purdue University, USA) for her work on Improving food security, dietary intake and health through integrated science and engineering approaches.
The Award ceremony and lecture will be organized online on June 20th, 2023 at 10:00 AM EST (2:00 PM UTC, 4:00 PM CEST).
Free pre-registration is available on the following form
You have access to more information about the laureate on her dedicated page.
The next Symposium organized by the Yogut in Nutrition Initiative for sustainable balanced diets was organized on Thursday, DECEMBER 8, 2022, from 09:00 AM to 10:30 AM (Tokyo local time)
The Symposium took place at the Tokyo International Forum during the Internatinal IUNS Congress of Nutrition, under the thematic: “Food Culture Practices and Nutrition Education”
> All information, presentation, abstracts are available on yogurtinnutrition.com.
The 2021 Symposium organized by the Yogut in Nutrition Initiative for sustainable balanced diets was online, on June 10, 2021, from 12:00 to 13:30 EDT (18:00 to 19:30 CET), as sponsored satellite event of ASN Nutrition 2021 Live Online.
Online access opened to all scientists registered to join the ASN Nutrition 2021 Live Online, June 7 – 10.
> All detailed informations, synthesis, bios, abstracts and videos are available on the yogurt in nutrition website.
Dr. Jess Haines, Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, Canada, is awarded the Danone International Prize for Alimentation (DIPA) for her groundbreaking research into promoting sustainable healthy eating among families, through novel, interdisciplinary research and knowledge mobilization.
The Award ceremony and lecture was organised during the ASN Nutrition Online Preconference Week, on 3rd of June 2021, 10:00 AM EDT.
The conference is still availabe on the dedicated ASN page: nutrition.org/2021-dipa.
> More information about the Prize and the laureate on our dedicated page.
The Yogurt in Nutrition initiative organized an open online Q&A session with experts on sustainable diets on December 10th, 2020.
Three worldwide guests co-hosted the event: Pieter van’t Veer (the Netherlands), Professor in Nutrition, Public Health and Sustainability at Wageningen University, who did shortly present his latest research on diet optimization through modeling; Sharon Donovan (USA), Chair of the Yogurt In Nutrition Initiative, who did open the event andAzmina Govindji (UK), an expert nutritionist and dietitian, who did animate the debate.
> Find the recap on the “yogurt in nutrition” website
The American Society for Nutrition organized in June 2020 its annual congress on live format. YINI had a e-symposium during this live online event, chaired by Sharon Donovan and Olivier Goulet, with the following program:
A YINI symposium has been organized during FENS 2019, on October 16th, in Dublin.
The symposium, chaired by Prof. Sharon Donovan, PhD, RD (Past President American Soc. for Nutrition, Professor of Nutrition, University of Illinois, USA) and Prof. Olivier Goulet, MD, PhD (Professor of Pediatrics Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades University Paris Descartes, France) proposed the following program:
> You can find the synthesis of the conferences on yogurtinnutrition.com
The “Yogurt in Nutrition Initiative” gathered experts during the ASN annual meeting, Nutrition 2019, in Baltimore in June 2019. This YINI symposium, organized on June 10th, 2019, was on “Sustainable diets”.
> Discover abstracts, bios and detailed synthesis on yogurtinnutrition.com
YINI experts gathered during the IV World Congress of Public Health and Nutrition, on 24-27 October 2018 in Madrid (Spain). This YINI symposium was organized with the following program: “Yogurt as a vehicle of healthy eating in children”.
> More info on Yogurtinnutrition.com
The 6th YINI summit was organized during the Nutrition 2018 Congress, on June 10st, 2018. This year topic: “Yogurt, more than the sum of its parts”.
> The abstracts, synthesis and speakers presentations are available on Yogurtinnutrition.com
This DII symposium was organized during the Nutrition & Growth Conference, on March 2nd, 2018.
The topic: Nurturing children’s healthy eating.
Discover the conferences online