Call for Abstracts 2026
Abstract Requirements
Title: maximum 2 lines.
Author names: include all authors (use + sign to add fields)
Author affiliations: Department, Institute, City, Postal Code, Country
E-mail addresses: include email addresses of all authors
Keywords: 3 to 5 keywords
Abstract: Maximum 450 words
Presentation format: Oral or Poster. In case of virtual participation, oral presentations will be made in real-time, and poster presentations will be displayed in pre-recorded videos.
Before you submit, please make sure your abstract meets all requirements.
Topics
RETASTE 2026 covers the following research and applied topics.
AFR: Reducing the environmental Footprint of Agriculture
AWR: Alternative Water Resources and Wastewater Reuse
UFP: Urban Food Production, from green roofs to micro-greens and NBS
HAR: Harvest and post-harvest management to reduce losses
AEP: Alternative Energy Production and energy use optimisation at farm level
APP: Alternative Protein Production for human consumption
NRF: Nutrients Recovery and alternative Fertilizers
NOV: Novel materials from food resources
AAF: Alternative Animal Feed production
FWU: Food Waste management in the Urban environment, from collection to on-site treatment
COM: Compost production, quality and utilization
ANA: Anaerobic digestion, biogas valorisation and digestate utilization|W2E: Waste to Energy (other than anaerobic digestion)
LCA: Life Cycle Assessment and Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) of the different components of the farm-to-fork value chain
POL: Policy perspective in all aspects of the farm to fork value chain
PLW: Prevention of Food Loss and Waste: policy, methods and best practices
FWM: Measurement of Food Loss and Waste
CFW: Consumer Food Waste Prevention – awareness and behaviour change models and interventions
FLW: Any other aspects of FLW prevention across the entire food value chain
BDZ: Biodiesel
RAC: Risk Analysis, Assessment and Management in Circular Economy
ART: Food as Art Material
Colleagues are welcome to propose and moderate new topics at info@retaste.gr.
Abstract submission
Abstracts must be prepared in English. Please ensure that your abstract does not contain spelling, grammatical or scientific errors, as this can be grounds for rejection. In case of acceptance, changes in the abstract title, text or authorship won’t be allowed. Submission will be open from January 1, 2026 to May 31, 2026.
Special notice: in accordance with current EU sanctions, RETASTE will not accept any payment of RETASTE 2026 registration, abstracts or any other fees from Russian or Belarusian institutions or banks. If you have any questions about this restriction, please contact info@retaste.gr.
Abstract review
Special notice: RETASTE accepts only original contributions. Before review, all submissions undergo checks with plagiarism software. Any submission that is marked is automatically rejected even if the original work is from the same authors.
After review by the scientific committee, the presenting author will be notified via e-mail about: (a) the acceptance or rejection of the abstract, (b) the decided session and format of the presentation (oral or poster), and (c) in case the scientific committee indicates that the work needs corrections, the authors will have a single opportunity to send a new version of the abstract according to the suggestions and corrections of the scientific committee. Acceptance notifications will be sent at the end of the next month after submission, starting February 28, 2026.