The PREMIO DANIEL CARASSO is an initiative from the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso which was created under the aegis of the Fondation de France.

The Foundation is active in two areas: sustainable food systems and diets to sustain life and art to nourish the mind. The Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso believes that there has to be a paradigm shift in food systems. It is urgent to promote dialogue among players and researchers with various backgrounds and academic disciplines, and collaborations between them. New production and consumption practices need to be designed and tested. The Foundation aims to encourage a better understanding of the way food systems work and to identify realistic, viable solutions for feeding people adequately and sustainably in the future. To that end, the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso:

• Funds and spearheads innovative projects in France and Spain, in order to try out and validate new approaches;

• Encourages international research on a multidisciplinary basis, in order to improve understanding of the way food systems work, through a yearly international call for research projects and the aforementioned Premio Daniel Carasso Prize;

• Helps to raise awareness among researchers and decision makers for sustainable food systems and dietary issues, and pioneer solutions.

The Premio Daniel Carasso is a high level international scientific award on the topic of sustainable food and diets for long-term health, given out first in 2012 then 2015 and from then on every two years. The Prize is open to research scientists coming from a variety of scientific fields, including (not exclusively) nutrition, food sciences, agriculture, agronomy, fisheries and aquaculture, agro-ecology, ecology, biodiversity, environmental sciences, sociology, anthropology, economics, etc.

Laureates of the Premio Daniel Carasso are rewarded for their interdisciplinary and multidimensional approach of sustainable food systems. Their research has to combine several of the environmental, economic, social and nutritional dimensions of sustainability that should necessarily be addressed together. The laureates also have to be recognized by their peers, particularly researchers. Eventually, the laureates are chosen for their capacity to think collectively and to cooperate with other researchers and professionals. The Prize is intended to give more visibility to a mid-carrier researcher and to help her/him inspire junior researchers to develop transdisciplinary approaches to study food systems and their sustainability.

The amount of the Premio Daniel Carasso is €100,000.

For information registration, eligibility and application procedures, please vist the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso website.