Ervina will soon move from the million city of Jakarta in Indonesia to the small village Ås in Norway for the ESR2 position in Edulia. Her research will be tightly linked to WP2, she will focus on the importance of sensory sensitivity for food perception among pre-adolescent children and we expect a close collaboration with Julia (ESR3) who…
Here we introduce you to the last of the ESRs who will work on the group of pre-adolescents. Meet Tija Rageliene from Lithuania, who will do her PhD in Aarhus, Denmark, on peer and sibling influence on children’s healthy eating behavior. Please, tell us about your background My name is Tija Ragelienė. I came to…
Eurosense was held this year in early September in beautiful Verona. We digged into the conference programme to get a glimpse of current research subjects on children. Overall the conference included 7 oral presentations, 4 flash-poster or workshop oral presentations and 19 posters, totaling 30 communications with focus on children. Non-surprisingly, over half of these…
Nofima’s activities on children and sensory science was presented prime time in Norwegian television, on the show “Norge nå” Challenges when doing research with children Children are challenging research objects. They cannot focus for longer periods of time, they cannot read, they don’t want to sit still, but to play, and are not always good…
We are recruiting 11 Marie-Curie PhD POSITIONS in the project EDULIA, on Children healthy eating. The program is part of an ITN-ETN Marie Curie Training Network, funded by the EU through Horizon 2020. Edulia is a multi-disciplinary and inter-sectorial European Training and Research Network with a global reach. Our network will train 11 innovative and…
Nofima is leading a new doctoral programme aimed at finding new ways to tackle the challenge of obesity. The focus is on getting children to opt for healthy alternatives. Eleven doctoral students from various countries will be recruited, and they will be afforded an opportunity to conduct research into the fields of sensory perception, food…
Edulia responds to the urgent need of the EU society to find new ways to tackle the escalating issue of obesity, through promoting healthier eating from childhood, within the context of choice. Based on the relations between sensory perception, pleasure, food choice and food behaviour, the project will look for new approaches to drive children…