Euregio Center on food

Since 2018 the Edmund Mach Foundation has been hosting the Euregio competence center set up as part of the international project “Environment, Food & Health” in order to tackle the socio-economic challenges related to population ageing and overweight.

Excellent public health care, a healthy lifestyle compared to the national and European context, a valuable environmental context, the presence of qualified research institutions and, last but not least, a widespread production of foods that protect against diseases linked to obesity and old age are in fact elements common to the three territories of the Euregio Trentino, South Tyrol and Tyrol. The “Environment, Food & Health” project carried out by FEM in collaboration with the Universities of Trento, Bolzano, Innsbruck and Hall, the provincial companies for the health services of Trento and Bolzano, Eurac and the Laimburg

Research Centre, starts from this awareness to promote high-level research aimed at understanding how diet and lifestyles act on the risk of metabolic diseases (in particular on obesity) and at the same time enhancing local products with high nutritional functionality, also through educational initiatives.