NPD Skills Training - Food Design, Senses & AI
This course combines sensory science, consumer behaviour, and digital tools (including AI) to enhance food product development and support your innovation efforts with real and synthetic insights.
Course information
- Open to
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Professionals from RIS countries
- Dates
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23 & 24 June 2025
- Price
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Free
- Applications
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Open until the 9th of June 2025
About : How to apply AI tools?
The Food Design, Senses & AI course supports professionals working in the food sector in strengthening their practical skills in sensory evaluation and food product design. You will learn how to apply AI tools to understand better and predict consumer preferences, use sensory data to inform product decisions, and innovate using synthetic consumers.
This course combines sensory science, consumer behaviour, and digital tools (including AI) to enhance food product development and support your innovation efforts with real and synthetic insights.
Advantages :
The Food Design, Senses & AI course is part of the NPD Skills Training programme – a unique opportunity to gain experience, work hands-on with AI applications in sensory research, and collaborate with other food professionals.
You can:
- Learn: Understand sensory attributes, methods of evaluation, and how they influence food product success.
- Practice: Work with AI tools to simulate consumer feedback and predict sensory preferences.
- Innovate: Collaborate on product development based on both real and synthetic consumer input.
Take your product development skills to the next level!
What you'll learn: : You will learn the following competencies
Critical thinking
- Collect, analyse, interpret and report information to develop sustainable solutions to current and future challenges.
- Appraise unintended consequences of any course of action to devise ethical goals.
Food systems
- Analyse the food system using a range of systems approaches to appraise current and future sustainability challenges.
- Implement innovative responses to address sustainability challenges in the food system.
Structure & Modules : Food Design, Senses & AI
- Part 1: June 23, 2025 [9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CEST Warsaw Time]
- Part 2: June 24, 2025 [9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CEST Warsaw Time]
Competency Focus: Critical Thinking & Food Systems
Level: Practice
This course provides a hands-on introduction to sensory analysis and consumer-centred food design, including the use of AI tools to simulate preferences, analyse test results, and optimize product attributes.
Key Topics:
- Role of the senses in food design
- Analytical vs. affective sensory tests
- Introduction to AI tools for sensory research
- Real vs. synthetic consumer evaluation
- AI-supported packaging and product refinement
- Project-based sensory testing using AI
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Understand the role of sensory analysis in food product development and demonstrate differences between analytical and affective tests used for sensory evaluation purposes.
- Use sensory analysis in combination with an AI Assistant model to design or reformulate food products that better align with consumer expectations and predicted sensory acceptance.
- Effectively collect, analyse, and interpret sensory data using AI-supported techniques to develop sustainable, high-quality food solutions tailored to evolving consumer needs.
WHO CAN ATTEND :
The Training is designed for food professionals who wish to improve their competencies in a particular area.
The ideal applicant should:
- Be a food professional employed in companies, academia, or research institutes
- Have an entrepreneurial approach to problem-solving and a willingness to share their knowledge with other participants
- Have relevant knowledge and experience in the food sector
- Have working knowledge of the English language (the course will be held in English):
- Be a citizen of one of the RIS countries, including:
- EU Member States: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain.
- Horizon Europe Associated Countries: Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Israel
- Outermost Regions: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Réunion, Martinique, Mayotte and Saint-Martin (France), the Azores and Madeira (Portugal), and the Canary Islands (Spain).
Practical : What you need to know
Application deadline
- Food Design, Senses & AI: 9th June 2025
No fee, Food Design, Senses & AI course, offered within the New Product Development Training ‘NPD Skills’, is free of charge. Costs are covered by EIT Food. No additional fees will be requested from participants.
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