FENS Notifications

FENS Career Achievement Award 2015

It is our pleasure and honor to inform that the FENS Career Achievement Award for outstanding achievements in the field of nutritional sciences has been granted to Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Elmadfa.
Our most sincere congratulations!

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Results bid process 13th FENS European Nutrition Conference, General Assembly Berlin, October 22, 2015

The Nutrition Society, Irish Section was elected by the General Assembly for being the host of the 13th FENS European Nutrition Conference, which will take place from the 15th – 18th October 2019 in Dublin, Ireland.

The proposed theme for the event is “Malnutrition in an Obese World: European Perspectives”.

Please find more detailed information here: http://www.nutritionsociety.org/sites/www.nutritionsociety.org/files/FENS%20committee%20info%20flyer%20v2.pdf

Congratulations to The Nutrition Society – we are looking forward to seeing you in Dublin 2019!

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Results election FENS Board 2015-2019, General Assembly Berlin, October 22, 2015

The new FENS board has been elected during the GA on Oct. 22, 2015 in Berlin. A new Task Force “Northern European Networking” with 2 Task Force Coordinators has been included, and the number of board members has been extended from 8 FENS board members 2011-2015 to 14 Board members 2015-2019, from the following countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Uk & Ireland.

The composition of the FENS Board 2015-2019:

• President: Heiner Boeing
• Vice-President: Ascensión Marcos
• Treasurer: Ian Macdonald (second term)
• Secretary: Stefaan de Henauw (second term)
• Vice-Secretaries: Inga Thorsdottir (second term), Helmut Oberritter
• Task Force 1: Institutions & Projects: Representative of The Nutrition Society/Irish Section (not determined yet)
• Task Force 2: Eastern European Networking: Małgorzata Schlegel-Zawadzka (second term), Sladjana Sobajic, Marie Kunesova
• Task Force 3: Mediterranean Networking: Jacques Delarue, Furio Brighenti
• Task Force 4: Northern European Networking: Susanne Bügel, Mikael Fogelholm

After many years being an active and engaged part of FENS, the former FENS president (2007-2011) and Vice-president (2011-2015), Prof. Dr. Denis Lairon leaves the FENS Board. The Federation of European Nutrition Societies would like to express its deepest gratitude for all these years of endeavor and commitment.
Also many thanks to Prof. Marisa Porrini, who was the Task Force coordinator for the Mediterranean Networking from 2011-2015.