The Institute of Life Technologies (HES-SO) has been selected for hosting a professional media training for food and nutrition researchers on the 7th-8th of February. The institute carries out applied research and development (AR&D) activities in the frame of various projects or industrial collaborations.The researchers will experience real lessons and practical sessions on how to improve their communication ability to convey the importance of their research to the general public, through the media.The seminar hold by professional journalists, received very positive feedback from the participating researchers. In particular, hands-on and practical sessions are the key element during the training since effective and concrete examples gave the opportunity to researchers to immediately test their communication abilities and improvements.MAITRE - Media Actions for the International Training of Researchers is a EU-funded project, from the 7th Framework Programme. It aims at giving to food and nutrition research a higher profile in Europe, by providing professional media trainings to researchers and PhD students.The MAITRE project keeps on following the participants even after the seminar, giving them the possibility to access an online platform to build network and create a longstanding collaboration between researchers and science journalists in order to reduce the gap between science and media.