Sustainability and food packaging
This training focuses on trends and developments in the context of sustainable food packaging.
- Importance of packaging for food quality
- Balance food loss and packaging
- Concrete packaging optimizations via eco-design principles (Remove, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Renewable)
- EU and national policy on packaging in a circular economy: SUP directive, PPWR regulation, etc.
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of food packaging: which important steps?
- Overview of existing LCA tools: insights from the TACTIC project
Who
Teachers: Ir. Brecht Van Der Hoeven, Prof. dr. ir. An Vermeulen and Prof. dr. ir. Peter Ragaert
Location
Campus Coupure, Ghent
When
10 February 2026
ca 09:00 until 16:30
How
Participating costs €695 (excl. VAT) for members and €1.035 (excl. VAT) for others. A discount of 10% applies for each additional participant from the same company.
Registrations are open until February 4th, 2026.
We are a service provider for the KMO portefeuille (DV.O227234). Employees from the food industry working under Joint Committees 118 and 220 can also benefit from Alimento support for training.