The Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Ljubljana (UL BF) has been successful in the call for proposals of the European Research and Innovation Programme Horizon Europe, and has been awarded the ERA Chair - Chair of Metabolomics in food and nutrition (Foodomics) project, which will establish a new interdisciplinary Centre for Metabolomics. The project was coordinated by Prof. Dr. Nataša Poklar Ulrih from UL BF, and in addition to researchers from UL BF, collaborators from the Faculty of and Physics (FMF) and Faculty of Medicine (MF) are also involved. Food systems are affected by climate change, the loss of agricultural land and biodiversity loss, and need to respond to all these changes. Not surprisingly, the food industry faces many challenges, including maintaining food sufficiency, safety and quality, reducing food waste, improving nutrition and health, responding to changing consumer preferences and lifestyles (e.g. increasing demand for organic food), increasing urbanisation, and assessing the benefits and risks of new technologies. The establishment of the Metabolomics Research Centre will catalyse and accelerate the integration of several excellent and existing research groups working together to create the critical mass of interdisciplinary knowledge needed to improve national food, nutrition and health research. The established network of researchers and professors will also integrate the knowledge generated into the educational process at UL. At UL FMF, the project leader is Associate Prof. Dr Matija Milanič.