The awards will be determined by an international jury of leading food scientists and technologists as well as packaging experts:

• Prof. Dr. Emmerich Berghofer, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria),

• Prof. Dr. Dietrich Knorr (Technische Universität Berlin),

• Prof. Dr. Alexander Kolesnov (Moscow State University of Food Production MGUPP, Russia),

• Prof. Dr. Horst-Christian Langowski, Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Freising-Weihenstephan (Germany)

• Huub L.M. Lelieveld (Bilthoven/Nederlands),

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Achim Stiebing, Meat Technology, Hochschule Ostwestfalen Lippe, Lemgo (Germany),

• Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Jochen Weiss (Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart) and

• Prof. Dr. Ing. Erich Josef Windhab, Institute for Food Science/Process Technology, ETH-Zentrum, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (Switzerland).