The mission of the Honorary Committee
Members of the Honorary Committee understand and practice their responsibility along the following lines by:
- Promoting the CEFood 2024 in their countries at all relevant scientific and professional levels and circles;
- Spreading information about CEFood 2024 in the CEI countries and also to the European scientific, research, development and educational space covering food in broadest view;
- Suggesting potential speakers to the Scientific and Organising Committee in the early stage of the CEFood 2024 program design;
- Building the spirit of importance of food for humankind with high respect of ethical and moral norms within the food supply chain, but also in research, development and education networks.
The Honorary Committee is composed from the principal organisers of all CEFood congresses as follows:
| Year | Place, Country | Principal organiser |
| 2002 | Ljubljana, SI | Peter Raspor |
| 2004 | Budapest, HU | Diána Bánáti |
| 2006 | Sofia, BG | Kostadin Fikiin |
| 2008 | Cavtat, HR | † Damir Karlović, Kata Galić |
| 2010 | Bratislava, SK | Peter Šimko |
| 2012 | Novi Sad, RS | Viktor Nedović |
| 2014 | Ohrid, MK | Vladimir Kakurinov |
| 2016 | Kiev, UA | † Iaroslav Zasiadko |
| 2018 | Sibiu, RO | Ovidiu Tița |
| 2020 | Sarajevo, BA | Zlatan Sarić |
| 2022 | Čatež ob Savi, SI | Peter Raspor |
Most notably, respect and gratitude to all past organizers are passed from congress to congress by making each past principal organizer a member of the Honorary committee of the CEFood 2024.
Honorary members
Dr. Viktor Nedović Serbia
Dr. Viktor Nedović is full professor of University of Belgrade (Deptartment of Food Technology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture), Republic of Serbia.
His research areas belong to food science&technology, fermentation processes (beer fermentation), encapulation of bioactives, bioreactor design. As author and co-author he has published over 400 articles, more than 100 papers in SCI journals and more than 30 book chapters. In addition, he has edited five books for the renowned scientific publishers (Kluwer, Springer, and CRC Press). He has been coordinating or participating in more than 50 reserach and networking projects, out of which more then 30 are international ones, including Horizon and EUREKA projects, COST actions, etc. His scientific papers have been cited more than 9800 times, and his h factor is 53 (Google Scholar, July 2024).
He is founder and president of the Serbian Association of Food Technologists (SAFT). He is the full member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia (AESS). Besides it, he is a member of numerous national and international professional and scientific organizations, like: Bioencapsulation Research Group (BRG), European Federation of Food Science and Technology, EFFoST, International Society of Food Engineering, ISFE; European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group, EHEDG, European Academy of Food Engineering (EAFE). He is a char person of EFFoST Task Team CEFood congresses.
He was a member of scientific boards of more than 50 international food and biotechnology congresses. He is initiator and organizer of national student’s competition in the creation of eco-innovative food products, EcoTrophelia Serbia, under the umbrella of EcoTrophelia Europe, where he serves as member of the international jury.