Activities

Deliverables

Project reports and plans

D10.2 DEC Plan (July, 2025)

Dissemination, Exploitation & Communication (DEC) Plan
D10.2 (Version 3.1)

This report describes the design of the project’s communication tools, such as visual identity, communication materials, digital or media platforms, and project templates. The report also outlines the dissemination activity plans for the project, strategies for exploitation, and how impact indicators will be measured and assessed.

DEC Plan – Version 3.1 (PDF)

Calls for Applications

RELISH research positions, workshops, and events

Postdoctoral Research Position in HCI (Due May 7, 2025), Instituto Superior Técnico
RELISH Postdoctoral Research Position in HCI

Hosting Institution: Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon.  APPLY BY: May 7, 2025

We are looking for an HCI researcher with experience or interest in web tech stacks towards a web platform around food and recipes. You can apply even if you haven’t finished your PhD, as long as you complete it before you start this position.

The call is open until May 7, and you can apply via this link. Please don’t hestitate to contact Augusto Esteves (augusto.esteves@tecnico.ulisboa.pt) if you have any questions or concerns about the posting. 

Start date is flexible and the committee will consider requests for remote working. This position is a work contract (24 months) and not a scholarship – i.e., it includes 14 monthly payments per year (12 months plus summer and Christmas allowances), work insurance, meal allowance, and contributions to social security in Portugal.

Full Application Details (PDF)
“Recipes and Gastronomy as Cultural Heritage: Meaning, Methodology and Media”

October 22–25, 2025. The University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo (Italy).  APPLY BY: April 31, 2025.

The University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG) invites proposals to participate in an academic workshop taking place October 22-25, 2025 in Pollenzo, Italy. This methodological workshop is organized within the framework of the EU-funded RELISH project and aims to engage historians and other scholars across disciplines in discussions on the nature of recipes – how they are created, interpreted, shared, and transformed over time and across contexts.

Each session will be dedicated to different approaches to studying recipes as cultural artifacts producing human heritage, or the strategies of their digital organization and
dissemination.

We invite two types of case studies, focusing on European examples and beyond:

  1. Research case studies that critically utilize recipes as sources to understand historical and social processes.
  2. Recipes in digital dissemination projects, addressing their use in digital humanities, public history, or indexing projects.

Submission Guidelines: We invite proposals for case studies focusing on historical or contemporary case studies that fit within the workshop’s thematic scope. Please submit proposals to Simone Cinotto at s.cinotto@unisg.it by April 30, 2025.

Full Call for Papers (PDF)

Publications

Research Article (Published in Nature Food)
“Semantic and philosophical approaches for advancing the identification and measurement of food waste.” Nature Food.

Full citation: Borghini, Andrea and Nicola Piras. 2025. “Semantic and philosophical approaches for advancing the identification and measurement of food waste.” Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01167-2

ABSTRACT | Many global food-waste frameworks do not account for multiple concurrent factors, such as culture, time, context and the aims of the stakeholders. Using the semantic tools developed in the philosophical fields of analytic metaphysics and analytic ontology, we propose a framework to explore and document the conceptual nuances of food waste. By discussing food waste from the positions of substantivalism, adjectivalism and adverbialism, we account for the breadth of food-waste contexts to improve representation and communication in technical settings dealing with identification and measurement, such as report writing and policy development.

Link to Article

Events

(May 12–13, 2025) Recipe Ontology Hack-A-Thon #1
Recipe Ontology Hackathon #1: Temporal aspects of recipes

Department of Literature and Philosophy, University of Florence

May 12-13, 2025

March 12, 10:30am session with Andrea Borghini and Marta Vilardo. “Defining challenges of representing temporal aspects in recipes.”

  • Working with examples coming from the food and philosophy domain:
    • Challenge 1: PHASES. Examples: time in neapolitan pizza and/or espresso (temporality and optimal qualities); defining/constitutive/characterizing phases (leavening/baking in Neapolitan pizza making) vs non-defining/non-constitutive/non-characterizing (hand-rolled)
    • Challenge 2: EFFICIENCY. Examples: time in chemically aged rhum (shortening of process) and/or iceberg lettuce (lengthening of life) or UHT milk (lengthening of life)
    • Challenge 3: CONTEXT. Examples: time in octopus in cataluña (seasonality) and/or spaghetti al pomodoro in italy (typicality) and / or quinoa/sushi (from niche to global)

March 13, 11:30am session with Andrea Borghini. “Taking on CHALLENGE 2: EFFICIENCY”

  • Workshopping on how to represent efficiency in FoodOn, exploring alternative representations in CCO/DOLCE/UFO
Link to Program