Develop and implement evidence-based nutrition education through two innovative digital platforms, biannual certified trainings, webinars, and workshops at academic settings and communities, and the dissemination of nutrition research at annual international conferences involving participants and experts across countries and continents that contribute to nutrition policy, including in promoting healthy diet and sustainable food system

The Human Nutrition Research Center (HNRC) and the Metabolic Disorder, Cardiovascular and Aging Research Center (MVA) of the Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia (IMERI FMUI) support the importance of evidence-based nutrition education to accelerate the effort of tackling malnutrition in communities. Digital platforms, including mobile apps, will be utilised to create accessible and interactive educational tools. We believe that research and education should be interconnected; thus, integrating the educational tools into our research projects will also be a priority.

To ensure the quality of the implementation of educational modules, we will hold certified and uncertified trainings, webinars and workshops, both in academic and community settings. Nutrition-related topics of the trainings, webinars and workshops will include maternal and child nutrition, adolescents' nutrition, sustainable food systems, metabolism and ageing, healthy gut, Covid-19 and immunity, gut-lung-brain axis and diet quality to prevent malnutrition and non-communicable diseases. Collaborations with local and national governments, UN agencies and nongovernmental organisations, international institutions, professional organisations, scientific societies, community leaders and organisations and multidisciplinary experts are expected to create high-quality and comprehensive trainings. As we acknowledge the benefit from nutrition-research dissemination in promoting evidence-based nutrition education among academic societies, annual international conferences will also be regularly conducted. In these events, discussions among penta-helix collaboration – academia, local and national governments, public sectors, philanthropies and private sectors – are expected to integrate the findings of the research into nutrition policy.

Action plans will include proposals/terms of reference and timeline development, events preparation, programme implementation involving multidisciplinary experts, policymakers and all collaborators as well as monthly and annual meetings of the IMERI FMUI to monitor and evaluate the programme. Trainings, workshops and webinars will be held at least twice a year from 2022 to 2025, growing participants consecutively and starting from 200 annually. The conference will be held once a year, with the number of participants reaching at least 800 from 2022 to 2025.