Programme
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Farm and Dairy visits (2 farms and 1 dairy per technical tour)
08:30 –
17:00
Optional selection of dairy and farm visits:
- Tour 1: Gruyère AOP
- Tour 2: Vacherin fribourgeois AOP
- Tour 3: Mountain cheese from Fribourg
- Tour 4: Emmental AOP
- Tour 5: Various cheeses from Berne
18:00 – 19:30
Joint apéro
19:30 –
22:00
Joint dinner with representatives from the Swiss dairy sector. Swiss
Federal
Councillor Guy Parmelin will be among us, if possible.
Thursday, 12 October 2023
08:30 – 12:00
Optional
selection of workshops and presentations as well as a tour of
Liebefeld Kulturen AG
FACE General Assembly
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
Possibility to visit the poster exhibition and the information stands
12:00 – 13:30
FACE Conference
13:30 –
18:00
Languages: German, French and English (with simultaneous
translation)
Presentations available online after the conference (no proceedings)
Opening
13:30 –
14:45
Welcoming addresses and introduction of the conference programme
Chaired by Marie-Therese Fröhlich-Wyder, Head of the Scientific
Programme Committee
- Christian Hofer, Director Federal Office for Agriculture
- Didier Castella, Government Councillor of the Canton of Fribourg
- Kerstin Jürss, President of FACEnetwork
- Hans Aschwanden, President of Fromarte
- Daniela Weber, Cheese maker and managing director
Session 1: Quality and safety
15:15 – 16:25
Ending the War on Artisan Cheese
Catherine Donnelly, University of Vermont, Emeritus (USA)
Safety and quality of raw milk cheeses: Two sides of the same
coin
Hans-Peter Bachmann, Agroscope (Switzerland)
3
short presentations of posters
Chaired by Hans-Peter Bachmann, Scientific Programme Committee and Local
Organizing Committee
16:25 - 16:40
Panel
discussion on Current and future challenges for raw milk products
Moderated by Monika Lüscher Bertocco, Local Organizing Committee
16:40 – 17:10
European Cheese Buffet
18:00
BOC: Bring your own Cheese
Are you a cheesemaker?
Then you are very welcome to participate in the BOC.
Bring your own cheese for the European Cheese Buffet.
Friday, 13 October 2023
FACE Conference
09:30 – 12:40
Session 2: Sustainability
09:30 – 10:40
The role of sustainable grassland management for food
security and maintenance of natural resources
Urs Niggli, agroecology.science, Institute of sustainable food &
farming systems (Switzerland)
Guide for sustainability in artisanal cheese dairies in
Switzerland
Elisabeth Eugster, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences
HAFL, Zollikofen (Switzerland)
Session 3: Health effects
Micronutrient-transport to immune cells by whey proteins: A
missing link to health and immune resilience
Franziska Roth-Walter, University of Vienna (Austria)
The protective effect of raw milk and raw milk Kefir on the
development of allergic disease
Betty van Esch, Utrecht University (Netherlands)
Lunch
12:40 – 14:00
Session 4: Microbial biodiversity
14:00 – 15:10
Microbial transfers across a food chain: from grassland to
cheese using systemic and multidisciplinary approaches
Céline Delbès, INRAe Aurillac (France)
Importance of raw milk lactic acid bacteria for cheesemaking:
a new approach for their detection
Elena Bancalari, University of Parma (Italy)
Coffee Break
15:10 – 15:40
Panel
discussion on “Conclusions from the conference”
Moderated by Stefan Truttmann, Local Organizing Committee
15:40 – 16:10
Closing
16:10 –
16:20
Chaired by Hans-Peter Bachmann, Scientific Programme Committee and Local
Organizing Committee
- Poster Award
- Acknowledgements & Outlook for 2024
Apero
riche - A glass of friendship at the end
16:20 –
18:00
Following
optional program:
(no registration needed)
Saturday, 14 October 2023
Open Days in Grangeneuve
Sunday, 15 October 2023
Open Days in Grangeneuve
Verband für handwerkliche Milchverarbeitung e.V.
Alte Poststraße 87, 85356 Freising
Tel. +49 (0)8161 - 787 36 03, Fax +49 (0)8161 - 787 36 81
E-Mail: info@milchhandwerk.info
