The Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association – EMEA, represented by its Founder and President, Prof. Rym Ayadi, and the Food & Mood Centre, Deakin University, represented by its Director, Alfred Deakin Prof. Felice Jacka OAM, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the purpose of enhancing collaboration on the Euro-Mediterranean and Africa ecosystems, enhancing expert knowledge in the regions and support transparent, inclusive social and economic development with a particular emphasis on expertise, sharing of knowledge, co-funding and dissemination to support a transformation towards a transparent, sustainable transition in the Mediterranean and Africa.
In this sense, the Parties will cooperate where and when feasible and appropriate, aiming at maximising bilateral and multilateral Euro-Mediterranean and Euro-African cooperation from a global and sustainable perspective.
Prof. Felice Jacka OAM had also visited the EMEA office on May 2023, following her participation in the EMEA Webinar: “Report launch: Good food is vital for brain health so we must change the food industry”, and together with Prof. Ayadi and the EMEA team, she discussed the essential link between diet and mental health, and the impact on the brain and brain capital.
The Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University is a world-leading, multi-disciplinary research centre that aims to understand the complex ways in which what we eat influences our brain, mood, and mental health. The Food & Mood Centre is unique in the world in its focus on Nutritional Psychiatry research, and generates gold standard evidence that informs public health, policy, and clinical practice. It has a wide network of collaborators in research across Australia and globally and is recognised as an international centre of research excellence.
The Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association – EMEA is a Barcelona-based regional think-tank that serves as a leading independent and innovative policy research institution; a forum for debate on the political and socio-economic reforms in Mediterranean and Africa; and promoter of actions and initiatives that fulfil objectives of sustainability, inclusiveness, regional integration and prosperity.
