FEBA Annual Convention
FEBA Annual Convention is our flagship event and brings together a wide range of participants, including our members from 30 European countries, officials from the European institutions and international organisations, business partners, leading experts and other NGOs.
FEBA Annual Convention 2025
18-20 June 2025
Dublin, Ireland
Inspired by the tradition of food sharing that strengthens communities and empowered by technology, the European Food Banks Federation invites you to explore how combining these two elements can amplify social and environmental impact, improving lives across Europe.
Curious about upgrading and increasing the Food Banks’ impact in Europe?
FEBA Annual Convention 2024
In 2024, FEBA Members met in the Czech Republic to discuss the future of food banking.
The Annual Convention 2024 took place in Prague, organised in collaboration with Česká Federace Potravinových Bank, from 19-21 June. The event focused on strengthening the sustainability and impact of food banks across Europe.
Through workshops and discussions on policy, innovation, and best practices, participants shared ideas and strategies for a more sustainable future.
FEBA Annual Convention 2023
Do the quantities of surplus food recovered keep up with the increased demand for food from charities? Do we innovate and double-down our efforts and focus on securing even more of the surplus food that would otherwise go to waste? Do we pivot our organisation’s mission and focus more on the social issue of material deprivation than the environmental issue of food waste? Or does this crisis mean we are being driven to rethink the core values – giving, sharing, European solidarity, and fighting food waste – of Food Banks today?
We came together and shared our thinking and practices on this vital and fundamental set of challenges
The European Food Banks Federation brought the right top thinkers together in Madrid for the FEBA Annual Convention 2023, which was organised in collaboration with Federación Española de Bancos de Alimentos (FESBAL) on 27-29 September 2023.
FEBA Annual Convention 2022
The effects of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine have placed the global economy under tremendous strain. This three-fold crisis provoking crippling supply chains, skyrocketing inflation rates, and spiralling costs of living leads to food donation becoming a game changer and food security being increasingly fragile. In this difficult period FEBA Members continue to work facing the challenge not just to prevent good surplus food from becoming food waste but also to ensure its safe delivery and redistribution to charities helping people in need. During the 2 days of the Annual Convention, FEBA together with its members as well as external partners and stakeholders shared, discussed, and exchanged best practices to alleviate the repercussions of the crisis and become more resilient to future shocks.
FEBA Annual Convention 2021
FEBA Annual Convention 2021 “For a sustainable future food system”, was organised by the European Food Banks Federation in collaboration with Česka Federace Potravinovych Bank and took place online on 6-7 May 2021.
FEBA Annual Convention 2021 was recognised as a UN Food Systems Independent Dialogue and wanted to offer opportunities for all participants to engage directly in proposing pathways towards sustainable food systems, exploring new ways of working together and encouraging collaborative actions. FEBA submitted a report to the United Nations as a contribution to the UN Food Systems Summit.
FEBA Annual Convention 2019
FEBA Annual Convention 2019 “Towards the next decade, together” was organised in. collaboration with Fondazione Banco Alimentare Onlus and took place on 15-18 May 2019 in Rome, Italy.
FEBA Annual Convention 2019 brought together more than 100 participants from 31 countries, including Food Bankers, policy-makers, business partners, leading experts and other NGO representatives.
FEBA Annual Convention 2018
FEBA Annual Convention 2018 was organized in collaboration with the Hungarian Food Bank and took place on 24-26 May in Budapest (Hungary). It brought together more than 100 participants from 30 countries, including food bankers, policy-makers, business partners, leading experts and other NGO representatives.
It was focused on “Redistributing more nutritious surplus food – opportunities and challenges” and dedicated to knowledge sharing and training on innovative solutions in logistics and IT that can help Food Banks to increase efficiency and scale operations, ultimately allowing them to recover and redistribute more food.
FEBA Annual Convention 2017
FEBA Annual Convention 2017 took place in Rotterdam, in collaboration with Voedselbanken Nederland. It gave more than 90 delegates the opportunity to share their best practices on “Ensuring the financial sustainability of food banks”.
