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Taste for Life - “Smag for Livet” in Danish - was an exemplary research and communication collaboration of scientists within the humanities, natural and social sciences, and practitioners within education and gastronomy. The center was funded by the Danish foundation Nordea-fonden 2014 - 2021 and worked through educational institutions, partners and taste ambassadors all over Denmark and in international collaborations.
By the end of 2021, Taste for Life is no longer funded as a project, but the participants' work is still available online at smagforlivet.dk (in Danish). You can also reach the center's management and secretariat by email or telephone. Numbers and adresses are available on the Contact page.
Taste for Life focused on taste and the flavour of food as a driver for joy of life, health, learning, and culinary skills. With the resources of taste, we aimed to release and activate the possibilities of a better and richer life for children, young people and adults in Denmark.
The center involved researchers from the humanities (pedagogical and didactical scientists), natural sciences (sensory scientists and gastrophysicists), and social sciences (anthropologists), as well as educators (at preschool, elementary, secondary and vocational schools, university colleges and universities) and chefs.
Through interdisciplinary research collaboration and communication to pupils, students, teachers and the broader public in educational institutions and festivals, we bridged different scientific disciplines in a close, collaborative effort, hereby generating new knowledge on taste.
The centre included researchers from several universities and colleges, chefs from innovation kitchens and food colleges, and teachers from elementary schools, high schools and vocational educations. By integrating taste, learning, didactics and communication, our projects focused on three main areas:
- taste pedagogy and didactics;
- gastrophysics, sensory sciences, and the integration of scientific disciplines;
- innovation and honing of culinary skills.
Taste for Life was non-profit, funded by the independent philanthropic foundation Nordea-fonden. The knowledge and results as well as educational materials are still publicly available on the website www.smagforlivet.dk (and to some extent www.taste-for-life.org), and an open access website for teachers, fagmedsmag.dk.
Below you will find a list of the management and contacts in Taste for Life during 2014 - 2021 (all or some years):
