College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2022 79 – Healthy Eating Routine App (HER): FERL launched H.E.R., a mobile nutrition application for students in institutions of higher learning that will be registered as a UJ Community Engagement project in 2023. – Food Waste Management Education mobile application development (in progress). – FERL launched the Extended Reality (XR) facility in August 2022. The UJ XR Laboratory was established in collaboration with UJ Metaverse Research Unit and the support of the Erasmus+ Funded SUCSESS project. The project enabled funding to purchase equipment such as virtual reality (VR) headsets and a HoloLens for laboratory use-the UJ News and Events covered the project. The facility will be focussing on Food and Nutrition Projects. NATIONAL AND GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NATIONAL • Department of Basic Education: School Nutrition Feeding projects. • Tiger Brands Foundation: Effects of COVID-19 on in-school Nutrition. • Chefs with Compassion: Food Waste and Sustainability. • Empact Group Food Services: Food Waste Management. • Unilever: Analysis of Knorr products in the National School Nutrition Programme. • Advancing Children for Success (ACFS): Community Education, Health, and Nutrition Support. INTERNATIONAL • Penn State University, USA and the Centre for Food and Nutrition Research, Institut Paul Bocuse, Lyon, France. Project collaboration on Food Systems and Food and Nutrition Security. • Sawatribhai Pune Pule University, India: Nutrition Transition - Food Away from Home (FAFH) and Livelihood transition, poverty and childcare transition and its effect on child undernutrition in the tribal/peri-urban regions of India and South Africa. • Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, India: Livelihood transition, poverty and childcare transition and its effect on child undernutrition in the tribal/peri-urban regions of India and South Africa. • Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plants Studies in Cameroon: Indigenous Foods and Nutrition. • Institut de Recherche pour le Dévelopement (IRD), France: African interdisciplinary laboratory in sustainable, nutrition-sensitive marine aquaculture (LIMAQUA) research project. • Haaga Helia University, Finland: Extended Reality (XR) Food and Nutrition Projects. WORK LIFE FOOD INVITATION Annual Symposium: Food Evolution Research Laboratory (FERL) and Nutrition Society of South Africa (NSSA) FOOD EVOLUTION RESEARCH LABORATORY FREE EVENT | Hosted by Food Evolution Research Laboratory (FERL), UJ School of Tourism and Hospitality (STH) DATE: 20 October 2022 | TIME: 10:00 -12:00 PLATFORM: Zoom Click here to join the conversation Facilitator: Speakers: Prof Roslyn De Braine Associate Professor: Programme in Human Resource Management, Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management University of Johannesburg Prof. Corinna Hawkes Topic: Keep on keeping on: Struggles and motivations in balancing work and life Director: Centre for Food Policy, University of London and Co-founder: Next Gen(D)eration Leadership Collective Prof. Musawenkosi Donia Saurombe Topic: Work-life balance in the contemporary world of work Associate Professor: Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, University of Johannesburg Ms Abigail Park Topic: The Busy Parent: A nutrition guide on how to keep YOU and your family healthy (amidst the chaos) Registered Dietitian: Nutritional Solutions, Bryanston
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