Implemention Plan Jan Maat

Chair Operational Committee

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Core Challenges

1. Ensuring that consumers make the healthy choice the easy choice

2. Delivering a (more) healthy diet

3. Delivering value-added innovative food products fulfilling consumer requirements for superior product quality, convenience, availability and affordability

4. Ensuring the production of safe foods that consumers can trust

5. Achieving sustainable food production

6. Managing the Food Chain

7. Communication, Training & Technology Transfer

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FoodQuality &

Manu-facturing

Food &Health

Food Safety

Sustainable

Food Production

Food &Consumer

Communication,Training &

Technology Transfer

Food Chain Management

ETP Food for Life launched July 2005 on basis of Vision Paper Board, Operational Committee & Working Groups formed Successful delivery of

– Stakeholder’s proposal of a Strategic Research Agenda (SSRA), – Lead markets document

EU Recognition of the ETP program based on – financial support through a Specific Support Action (SSA)– presence of ETP-SSRA based topics in the FP 7 KBBE

programme Extensive national, regional and web consultations

– To ensure participants’ feedback on the SSRA,– To develop plans for alignment / integration of national research

programs within transnational or European programmes Successful creation of Networks, e.g. national food platforms

Reflection on Achievements

Groundrules of the ETP

ETP F4L is industry-led, yet based on the vision shared by the stakeholders involved: alignment & consensus importantKey enabler: responsible partnering / trust /

empowerment

The Implementation Plan will be focused on selected technology programs geared to increase competitiveness:

define “portfolio” based on impact on innovation vs budgets needed

Opportunities

The IP will catalyse the execution of the portfolio options through

indicating the priorities for Framework programs (theme & topic definition, open calls)

stimulating the creation of ERANets (transnational collaboration; gov’t driven) on Food, Nutrition & Health and Sustainable Food Production/Food Chain Management (from info sharing joint calls)

stimulating the creation of Eureka themes (industry driven)

stimulating the creation of public-private partnerships with strategic program & project definition and execution

Identifying other “funding opportunities” (COST, European Institute of Technology, European Investment Bank, Venture Capital)

Implementation (Action) Plan.

per working group define

The technological dimension Likely cost of action Building capacities Co-operation with industry Co-operation of National funding agencies (The impact of legislation on competitiveness)

(CIAA)

The technological dimension (5 yrs)

Analyse priorities and rank according to their importance to open up market opportunities

For each research challenge (priority) define activities leading to main deliverables

– projects, networks, demo’s, studies

Establish the relevance of the research to small, medium or large enterprises. (high priority to the SME sector)

Develop a set of scenario studies to identify the major challenges & opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the (Sustainable) Food Chain)

Likely cost of actions

establish the scale of the resources that are necessary to make substantial progress in a 5-year period (investments in 10, 20 or >50 m Euro)

define the likelihood that these resources could be made available from existing investments (national, EU) or not

define needs for specific training/education programs

Building capacities

WGs to consider need for ERA-Nets in areas of research defined as

high priority

other, e.g. large investments in infrastructure etc.:

– European Nutrition Research Council

– …..

Co-operation (with industry)

Establish willingness for collective industrial support for FP 7 proposals to be submitted under FP7

(Foster) Cross-disciplinary research centres: need for integration and collaboration – initiatives such as Joint Technology Initiatives or public-private

partnerships of smaller scale that can be organised on a regional scale

– Develop libraries, databases, bio-banks, standardized protocols, networks of facilities

– (Foster) prospective cohort studies (ex. EPIC-study)– European stable isotope standard repository– Standardized food tables– Close interaction with European Bio-informatics Institute

(Define) topics of shared interest with other ETPs (Define) topics in which SMEs have a collective interest

Co-operation of National funding agencies / Formation of Mirror Group

The Mirror Group will comprise representatives from EU Member States (funding agencies), European Commission (DGs Research, Sanco, Innovation), COST, Eureka, ERA-NETs etc.

Its role will be to facilitate and maximise co-ordination of ETP- and nationally-funded activities and projects,

the Mirror Group can influence the Implementation Plan, the Mirror Group can effectively interact with the ETP Board, an inventory of the strategic research agendas of national funding

bodies can be conducted with a view to identifying overlaps and duplications, leading to

steps taken to harmonise and integrate Member States’ support of research in the agro-food sector.

Instalment of a task force to set-up the mirror group

Input needed!

Specific actions targeted at SMEs

assess the most effective activities to promote technology uptake organised at a national, local level, and at the European level

For Food, Nutrition & Health establish activities on Food, Nutrition & Health to the likely

benefit to the SME sector ; establish the barriers to smaller industries that prevent them

exploiting, innovation in the key health and welfare driver of the ETP Food for Life

Task Force on smaller industry [SME and MSE] innovation has been installed (chair:Andras Sebok)

Timeline overall

Public/private partnership workshop: Jan 2007 National Platform meeting: April 2007 Final SRA May 2007 Layman’s version of the SRA; idem Establishment of Mirror Group:May/June 2007 Draft IP: June/July 2007 (B & OC meeting)

– includes SME action pan & Scenario studies Stakeholder Consultation meeting Sept. 2007 Mirror Group/Board meeting: Oct. 2007 Final IP: Dec. 2007 (Potocnik)

What to expect from National Platforms?

Think globally, act locally Share the ETP vision Contribute to the Strategic Research Agenda Be part of the implementation plan: make it happen!

Today Share your experiences and build on others Seek cooperationTomorrow Identify the national representative (government) to

be member of the Mirror Group

Thank you

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