Third Meeting of National Contact Points Food Quality and Safety Third Meeting of National Contact Points Outcome and lessons from the 1st call Brussels, 23 October 2003 Liam Breslin / Laurent Bochereau European Commission Directorate-General Research Directorate E: Biotechnology, Agriculture and Food Unit E.2: Food Quality RTD/E.2/JL

FP6: Food Quality and Safety € 685 million From Fork to Farm Production systems: Agriculture Fisheries Aquaculture Processing Safe, high-quality foods Health and well-being of consumers Food intake Environ- mental factors From Farm to Fork RTD/E.2/JL

FP6: Food Quality and Safety Impact of animal feed on human health Production methods/ healthier foodstuffs Consumer health and well-being Environ-mental health risks Methods of analysis, detection, control Impact of food on health Epidemio-logy of food-related diseases Traceability processes Total chain RTD/E.2/JL

Food Quality and Safety Roadmap Call for Publication 20 March 2002 Expressions of Interest Deadline 7 June 2002 First call Publication 17 December 2002 Deadline 15 April 2003 Project start dates Beginning of 2004 RTD/E.2/JL

First Call Overall Evaluation Process April May June July Eligibility Check (EC Services) 26-30 May Con-sensus meeting 9-11 June Panel meeting New Instr NoE-IP 128M€ 5-22 May Remote reading 14-18 July: Ethical review Closing date: 15th TI (32M€) SSA (7M€) 5-9 May Con-sensus Panel RTD/E.2/JL 5

Results of First Call RTD/E.2/JL

Overall Coverage Fork-to-farm Food intake Safe, high-quality foods Nutrition and ageing (2) Genomics and nutrition Obesity and metabolic syndrome Heat treated foods Risk and communication Fork-to-farm Low input farming Quality seafood Pathogen-free systems Food intake Health and well-being of Consumer Safe, high-quality foods Production Processing Zoonoses TSEs Risk assessment Grain legumes Host pathogen interactions Animal welfare Biological control of pests (2) Alternatives to antimicrobials (2) Antibiotic resistance Environmental factors Chemicals in the environment Allergy and asthma Neurotoxins Complex chemicals RTD/E.2/JL

New Instruments RTD/E.2/JL

Traditional Instruments RTD/E.2/JL

Specific Support Actions RTD/E.2/JL

Participants in New Instruments 12 Proposals on the short list RTD/E.2/JL

Reasons for failure (1) Relevance Impact Excellence of participants Insufficient coverage of the work programme Impact Dissemination plans do not go beyond the normal activities of participating entities Excellence of participants Profiles of participants are not given No clear added value to carry out the work at European level SME and industry participation too low or not involved in core activities RTD/E.2/JL

Reasons for failure (2) Degree of integration and the JPA Objectives and work plan unclear, too diversified, unrealistically ambitious, lacking novelty Scientific basis for project is stated as a matter of fact without a supporting scientific argument No real integration between partners or workpackages Organisation and management No or insufficient description of management structure and decision-taking Management structure insufficient for project size RTD/E.2/JL

NuGO NuGO European Nutrigenomics Organisation - Linking genomics, nutrition and health research information Genomics Transcriptomics Proteomics Metabolomics Nutrition Basic science Applied science Information NuGO RTD/E.2/JL

NuGO: Objectives Form a world-leading virtual centre of excellence Scientific and technological excellence in nutrigenomics Response to and requirements for nutrients Spread excellence in nutrigenomics beyond the boundaries of the partnership Disseminate and exploit new scientific knowledge in order to strengthen the competitiveness of the European food industry Transfer acquired knowledge to all stakeholder groups RTD/E.2/JL

WP 11 Nutrigenomics and Society WP 3 Life stage nutrition 506360 NuGO European Nutrigenomics Organisation - Linking genomics, nutrition and health research information Systems biology approach: genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics Deliverables: The world-leading virtual centre of excellence for integration of genomic technologies in nutrition science; WP 10 Dissemination WP 11 Nutrigenomics and Society WP 12 Commercialisation WP9 Training Integration Activities Joint Research Activities WP 1 Gut health WP 2 Metabolic health WP 3 Life stage nutrition WP 4 Risk benefit evaluation WP 5 Innovation Standardisation WP 6 Human studies WP 7 Nutritional bioinformatics WP 8 Nutrigenomics database WP13 Management RTD/E.2/JL

NuGO Participants 18 Participants in the Expression of Interest 20 Participants during negotiation +1 new participant during negotiation +1 new participant in proposal Coordinator RTD/E.2/JL

NuGO Management structure Governing Council Advisory council Platform WP13 Executive Director / Coordinator Spreading Excellence Joint Research Integration Network board Network Secretariat Management WP13 RTD/E.2/JL

NuGO Organisation structure WP13 Integration monitor organise WP15 Governing Council Advisory council Platform WP13 Network board Network Secretariat Management WP13 Executive Director / Coordinator WP13 SMEs WP14 Joint Research Integration Spreading Excellence Methods in human studies Innovation & standardisation WP5 WP6 WP7 WP8 Information systems Bioinformatics WP2 WP1 WP3 WP4 Life Stage Nutrition Metabolic health Risk benefit evaluation Gut health WP9 WP10 WP12 Training WP11 Nutrigenomics and Society Commercialisation Dissemination RTD/E.2/JL

Networks of Excellence Issues for Negotiation (1) Participant with relevant expertise to be added Sustainability of network after end of project to be safeguarded Specify all planned workshops, conferences and training programmes Establish interaction with all relevant FP5 and FP6 projects Earmark funds for SMEs Give verifiable and quantifiable objectives RTD/E.2/JL

Networks of Excellence Issues for Negotiation (2) Define indicators of integration and innovation Include a work package on review and self-assessment Identify risks and give contingency plans for each work package Break work packages down into smaller units Give a cost breakdown per participant and work package in FP5 cost categories Leadership sharing among participants to increase EU impact Keep room for newcomers RTD/E.2/JL