Outline programme

Wednesday, 7th September 2022

11:30-13:00 Registration

13:00-15:00 Workshops, parallel session 1 (more information about workshops)

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30 -17:30 Workshops, parallel session 2 (more information about workshops)

18:30 Reception : University of Edinburgh Playfair Library Hall (at Old College) Welcome by Mairi Gougeon, Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands

Thursday, 8th September 2022

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-09:30 Welcome addresses

09:30-10:30 Plenary session 1

Professor Lotte Holm, University of Copenhagen: Consumption challenges in transforming food systems

10:30-11:00  Coffee break

11:00-12:30  Parallel session 1

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:00-14:00  Poster session (overlaps with 30 mins of lunch)

14:00-15:00  Parallel session 2 (two papers per thread only)

15:00-15:30  Coffee break

15:30-17:00  Parallel session 3

17:00-17:15  Short break (no coffee)

17:15-18:15 Plenary Session 2

Professor Bruce Whitelaw, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh: Can biotechnology be part of a sustainable food supply?

Evening free

Friday, 9th September 2022

08:30-09:00 Registration (for new arrivals)

09.00-10:30  Parallel session 4

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 Plenary session 3 – panel discussion

Transforming the Food System in Practice – examples from the field

• Joe Bailey, RSPCA Assured
• David Finlay, The Ethical Dairy
• Anne-Marie Neeteson, Aviagen Group
• Fourth panellist shortly to be announced

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00  Parallel session 5

15:00-15:30  Coffee break

15:30-17:00  Parallel session 6

17:00-17:15  Short break (no coffee)

17:15-18:00 Eursafe AGM

19:00 Conference dinner: Royal College of Surgeons

Saturday, 10th September 2022

09:15 – 10:15 Plenary Session 4

Professor Geoff Simm, University of Edinburgh: How will we feed 11 billion people sustainably and ethically?

(Prof Simm is replacing the original fourth plenary session speaker, Dr Simone van der Burg, Wageningen University, who was due to give the talk Digitalisation as enabler of sustainable farming; future visions and the ethical questions they raise for development and implementation)

10:15-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-12:15 Parallel session 6

12:20-12:45 What have we learned about Transforming Food Systems Ethically? Summary Reflections on Eursafe 2022 from 3 delegates (6 minutes each)

12:45-13:00 Eursafe in 2023 and 2024; Thanks to retiring Eursafe President; Closing of Conference