The French Nutrition Society (SFN) promotes nutrition in all its fields of application. It also represents officially the French position at the international level, namely at the IUNS and FENS. Its main objectives are to contribute to the progress of knowledge, training and information in the field of nutrition. The SFN has organized the International Congress of Nutrition (ICN) of IUNS from August 24 to 29, 2025 in Paris, marked with more than 3800 participants and 3400 abstracts submitted from 123 countries. On this occasion, Jacques Delarue, current president of the SFN and the Secretary-General of the FENS, was elected as President-Elect of the IUNS.
Each year, the SFN co-organizes an International Symposium with a foreign partner/nutrition Society during its annual Congress, the Francophone Nutrition Days (https://www.lesjfn.fr/), and this year (from 4 to 6, November 2026), this Symposium will be held in collaboration with Canadian Nutrition Society. The SFN proposes several symposia every 4 years during the FENS and IUNS congress. In 2025, on the occasion of its annual Congress in Lyon, the SFN organized an International Symposium on “Food resilience in developing countries” in collaboration with Nutrition Societies from Benin and Ivory Coast. The SFN has also strengthened its collaborative ties with north African countries like Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, and this year, the SFN will participate in their annual Congress by proposing thematic symposia.
The SFN also publishes its Newsletter and a bimonthly journal, Cahiers de Nutrition et Diététique, that will be soon available in English version. As a commitment to the dissemination of knowledge, the SFN is soon going to publish the Traité de Nutrition, as a part of book-series, presenting the most up-to-date fundamental knowledge in nutrition across more than 150 chapters. The SFN also organizes every year the Workshops which are one/two daystraining sessions on specific topics, open to all. Every year, the SFN not only awards the contingent funds to a few promising original nutrition research projects, but also allocates to young researchers the travel stipends to encourage them to present their nutrition research at national and international conferences.
This year, the SFN has also constituted different Thematic Working Groups in nutrition-related fields like Intermittent Fasting, Gestational Diabetes and Nutrition, etc. Hence, the panel experts of each Group will provide with ground breaking knowledge on the subject with the nutritional recommendations.
Source: https://iuns.org/2026/03/recent-and-cur ... n-society/

