<< Background >>Europe is facing an aging population. Life expectancy is at its highest and many European populations are experiencing major demographic changes and transition towards a much older population structure. Despite living longer many people suffer ill-health or disability in the last 15-20 years of life which not only affects the quality of life of individuals and theirfamilies but also puts pressure on public health and care services, consequentially leading to the substantial social and economic impact on the society. With such a disbalance betweenthe quantitative and qualitative characteristics of human life, it is crucial for the population to move to the stage of active and healthy aging (AHA) and it is important to promote a healthylifestyle and increase literacy in maintaining active longevity. Ad4Health project enables Food science experts and graduates with knowledge and expertise to design functional food and thus contributes to tackling society with the challenge and need to prolong the active and healthy life of the elderly people and provide a high quality of life to them.<< Objectives >>To address the challenge, ADtrain4Health initiates a partnership of 4 internationally renowned universities with strong expertise in Food Science & Biotechnologies forteaching “Advanced Training for Future Food and Nutrition Challenges for an Ageing Healthier Population” (Ad4Health) to enable the graduates to contribute to providing AHA by elaboratingfunctional diets and nutrition.The universities involved in ADtrain4Health are:- University Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UBFC, France)- ITMO University, Russia- Slovenska Polnohospodarska Univerzita v Nitre (SUA, Slovakia)- Universidade Catalica Portuguesa (UCP, Portugal).The consortium is strengthened by five associated industrial partners from France, Russia and Portugal.<< Implementation >>ADtrain4Health unites the advanced research and teaching expertise of the partners for developing open educational resources (OER) with digital interactive eLabs. The OERs willhave a modular structure on the basis of which the biomedical aspects of active and healthy longevity will be highlighted and include theoretical and methodological material forpractical work.In compliance with Digital Competence Framework for Educators, ADtrain4Health empowers learners with digital competences through instruments and tools for educating. Consultingwith the stakeholders, the consortium will select learning methods and criteria, digital instruments and tools, research methodologies, and required knowledge, skills and competences, filling gap between research, education and the society.The innovative teaching modules will be validated through the test-run in the format of the International Camp hold by the partners, resulting in first-hand experience andfeedback data. To respond the challenge resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the developed course will be transformed into online format, completed by eLabs and supported byguidelines and recommendations for educators and will be placed on the open educational platform to safeguarding the inclusive nature of digital learning opportunities. The eLabs willbring to learners various tools for learning, additional web resources, video lectures, animated demonstrations and self-evaluation, to conduct experiments by arousing their curiosityand learn basic and advanced concepts through remote experimentation. Various participants beyond the project can enroll on the online version of the course with eLabs acrossEurope including all types of learners, educators, industry workers.ADtrain4Health will draw together real-world experience with academic knowledge to provide educators with the capability and tools to design and deliver innovative cross-disciplinaryonline course with digital eLabs in Food Science, Nutrition, Biotechnologies, Marketing, Chemistry, and Biology, thus contributing to the quality and relevance of the EU education.Regular consultations with industrial partners will guide the consortium to develop and promote teaching materials and methods to prepare graduates for the Food industry and otheremployers in Europe and around the world able to deliver the best solutions, through food and nutrition, for an aging population with more longevity and health, thus contributing tomaking European economies more research-driven, knowledge-based, and competitive.<< Results >>The outcomes of the project are- four (4) new teaching e-modules will be developed and approbated by partner universities within the curricula of the existing Master's Programs.- development of educational practices to improve knowledge and skills with an inclusive approach in the field of Food Science- possibility for students to participate in high-quality study programs of international dimension, improving their language skills and increasing their intercultural awareness as well as their chances of employability- transfer of knowledge and expertise by providing training to researchers and academics from the partner institutions- a better-trained workforce in personalized nutrition providing the countries with the human resources to solve the acute and burning problems in nutrition for AHA.