Project timeline

The second General Assembly was hosted by Fraunhofer Portugal, again in Porto. One major topic for discussion was the preparation of the field trials in Portugal, Netherlands, Switzerland.

Christoph Stahl presented the LIFANA project at the SEMANTICS 2019 conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. He described the integration of different data sources, such as the EuroFIR Food Composition data bases and recipes, into a semantic food knowledge model. The presentation is published online at the conference website. 

Krizia Ferrini from cereneo presented the project LIFANA at the EFAD conference in Berlin. Chistoph Stahl from LIST joined her to learn more about the needs of dietiticians. They received very positive feedback from the audience.

Dr. Krizia Ferrini presented on behalf of LIFANA Team an abstract at the 42°ESPEN 2020 Virtual Congress of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism.

Due to the COVID restrictions, the 5th General Assembly was organized as virtual event. The partners Fraunhofer and LIST presented a summary of the recent technical achievements. Torsten Bohn from LIH explained the preliminary results of the field trials in The Netherlands, where the second trial has ended. The partner further presented their dissemination and exploitation activities. 

The project will continue for 6 months to finalise and evaluate the delayed field trials.

Torsten Bohn and Christoph Stahl presented LIFANA at the Virtual Conference on Research in Food Safety, organized by EFSA.

Milestone 4 has finally been achieved on 26.01.2021 by the end of the 12-month field trials in Portugal.

The project LIFANA is exhibited at the European Week of Active and Healthy Ageing, 18-21 October  2021.

The results of the field trials in Portugal and The Netherlands have been published in the International Journal on Vitamin and Nutrition Research, Advance Articles section, on 25 October 2023. This article is Open Access. doi.org/10.1024/0300-9831/a000795

Christoph Stahl presented a paper with the title "User-centered design of a personalized meal recommender app for the elderly" at the 11th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET-AI 2024) to be held at Lausanne, Switzerland. The paper describes the User-Centered Design (UCD) process that was adopted by the project with two iterative cycles of three phases: i) under-standing, ii) conceptualizing, and iii) testing. It also presents some of the developed personas in detail for the first time.