Social challenge

Nutrition and Health

Nutrition is crucial to our health and contributes to our well-being. With a balanced diet, for example, we can reduce the risk of chronic diseases. By making better use of the potential of nutrition, we want to contribute to a healthier society and a better quality of life.

NUHCAS

NuHCaS is an open expertise and innovation center that combines the domains of Nutrition, Health and Care in a systemic approach.

To better harness the potential of nutrition, NuHCaS brings the nutrition and health sectors together in the NuHCaS community to achieve demand-driven, impactful innovations and solutions.

To this end

  • we identify nutrition and health needs and facilitate collaborations;
  • we initiate and stimulate multidisciplinary, evidence-based research on the impact of nutrition on health. We combine expertise from various actors across the broad spectrum, ranging from strategic basic research to implementation of research findings in practice;
  • open up existing infrastructure in Flanders and, where necessary, expand it;
  • share knowledge in the NuHCaS community to achieve implementation in society;
  • we engage in policy dialogue;
  • This happens in a networked (with research centers in Flanders and with foreign partners) and practice-oriented setup (with food companies, suppliers, caterers, care and health actors, policy, patient organizations and end users, among others).

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Projecten

NUHCAS

Delicious and balanced nutrition for all

Bekijk project

PROOF

Nutrition tailored to the caregiver’s needs

Bekijk project

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