The Academic Training is part of the activities of the H2020 project COMFOCUS - Communities of Food Consumer Sciences. This Academic Training will focus on new perspectives for the field of food consumer science. Participants in the event are young researchers from all over the world, and speakers will include various international researchers, such as Prof. Dr. Hans van Trijp from Wageningen University, Dr Sylvaine Deplanque from the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Dr Philip Dean from the University of Surrey, Dr Austeja Kazemekaityte from the University of Trento and Prof. Dr Matteo Vittuari from the University of Bologna. During the event the results of the project ativitiesrelated to the elaboration of new methodologies and frontiers in the field of food consumer research will ne presented, as well as 22 posters on the research projects conducted by 22 young researchers involved in COMFOCUS.