The IDEFICS Project

New international research project at IKL

Dr Lucia Reisch, currently Otto Mønsted funded Guest Professor at IKL, has received a 450,000 EU research grant for an intercultural comparative study of children's food socialization. IKL is delighted to announce that Lucia Reisch has decided to anchor the project to IKL, and that Lucia Reisch will be associated to IKL for the duration of the project as a full professor, on a half-time basis, funded by the project.

The study involves data from nine European countries and includes research into and development of intervention programmes promoting healthy diets & exercise. Lucia Reisch will be chairing the Working Area on "Consumer Science" together

with Professor Suzanne Beckamnn, IKL, in this 13 million EUR five year

Integrated Project (IP) with 31 partners all over Europe.