WiseFood 2025: Progress, Insights and Collaboration
The WiseFood consortium met in Brussels on 15 and 16 October 2025 for its first in person meeting since the kick off. The meeting brought partners together to review progress, discuss implementation and share updates.
Meeting in Brussels
The two day meeting, hosted by Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), provided space for presentations, discussions and collaboration across the consortium. Partners discussed technical developments, Living Labs, applications, ethics, management, communication and collaboration with related projects.
Day One: Exploring WiseFood
The first day opened with a welcome from project coordinator Dimitris Skoutas from Athena Research Center (ARC). RCSI School of Population Health then presented a state of the art overview and landscape analysis.
Infili Technologies SA (INFILI) and ARC introduced the WiseFood architecture, platform implementation and data workflows. Afternoon sessions presented the three WiseFood applications, FoodScholar, RecipeWrangler and FoodChat, through presentations from INFILI, ARC and ULB.
The consortium also welcomed the DietWise Project, a fellow sister project. Discussions focused on shared goals around personalisation and inclusion, creating an opportunity to exchange perspectives and explore areas of common interest.
Day Two: WiseFood in Practice
Day two focused on Living Labs progress, with RCSI School of Population Health, ESSRG, Wasteless Foundation and Green Point presenting their work on real world testing and user engagement.
The agenda also included a meeting with the Project Officer, alongside sessions on ethics, management and coordination led by ARC. ULB and INFILI presented AI robustness and alignment, addressing how WiseFood technologies can remain trustworthy and transparent.
Foodscale Hub and the European Federation of the Associations of Dietitians (EFAD) presented updates on WiseFood’s Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication strategy. The session connected technical and user focused work with communication and dissemination activities.
Bringing WiseFood Partners Together
Across the two days, WiseFood brought together different areas of project work, from platform development and applications to Living Labs, AI, ethics and communication. The meeting supported discussion between partners and related projects.
The Brussels meeting marked an important point in WiseFood’s project journey, giving partners an opportunity to review progress, discuss ongoing activities and exchange ideas across different areas of the project.
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