1. 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
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2. 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
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. Results of First Call
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7. 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
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8. New Instruments
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9. Traditional Instruments
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10. Specific Support Actions
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11. Participants in New Instruments
12 Proposals on the short list
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12. 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
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13. 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
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14. NuGO NuGO European Nutrigenomics Organisation -
Linking genomics, nutrition
and health research information
Genomics
Transcriptomics
Proteomics
Metabolomics
Nutrition
Basic science
Applied science
Information
NuGO
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15. 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
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16. WP 11 Nutrigenomics and Society WP 3 Life stage nutrition
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
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17. NuGO Participants 18 Participants in the Expression of Interest
20 Participants during negotiation
+1 new participant
during negotiation
+1 new participant in proposal
Coordinator
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18. NuGO Management structure
Governing Council
Advisory council
Platform
WP13
Executive Director / Coordinator
Spreading Excellence
Joint Research
Integration
Network
board
Network
Secretariat
Management
WP13
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19. 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
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20. 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
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21. 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
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