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Next steps towards a climate-smart and sustainable food system for a
healthy Europe
Final conference of the MyNewGut project:‘Microbiome Influence on Energy Balance and Brain Development/Function Put into Action to
Tackle Diet-Related diseases and Behaviour’
18 October 2018
Carina PereiraEuropean CommissionDG Research and InnovationBioeconomy DirectorateAgri-Food Chain Unit
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Food and feed ingredients can have an unexpected effect on the gut microbiome (e.g. trehalose)
Soil and plants microbiomes can potentially increase crop productivity and restore soil fertility.
Behaviour, obesity and many NCD are increasingly being associated to the gut microbiome. This can be modulated via diets to improve health.
Communities ofmicroorganismscan convertfood wasteinto addedvalue productscontributing to circularity.
Calling from the scientific community for a microbiome global initiative
Science 30 Oct 2015: Vol. 350, Issue 6260, pp. 507-508
doi:10.1126/science.aac8480
Nature 526, 631–634 (29 October2015)
doi:10.1038/526631a
Create a global
microbiome effortNicole Dubilier, Margaret McFall-Ngai & Liping
Zhao
A unified initiative to
harness Earth’s
microbiomesA. P. Alivisatos, M. J. Blaser, E. L. Brodie, M.
Chun, J. L. Dangl, T. J. Donohue, P. C.
Dorrestein, J. A Gilbert, J. L. Green, J. K.
Jansson, R. Knight, M. E. Maxon, M. J. McFall-
Ngai, J. F. Miller†, K. S. Pollard, E. G. Ruby, S.
A. Taha, Unified Microbiome Initiative
Consortium
IBF - International Bioeconomy Forum
CSA to support microbiome coordination and the IBF 5
IBFCo-Chairs:
European Commission& Canada
Microbiome
Chair: European
Commission
ICT
InformationComunicationTechnologies
Chair: New Zealand
Plant Health
Chair: Canada & USA
Forestry
Chair: Canada & Argentina
Working Groups
€ 3,5 millionfrom Horizon 2020
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CSA for Microbiome Coordination andSupport of the IBF
➢ The CSA is expected to start on November 2018. It has a budget ofover € 3 million.
➢ The CSA is expected to improve the international cooperation ofbioeconomy research programmes and also:
❖ Establish international networks that bring together all relevantstakeholders to foster the exchange of knowledge and increasecollaborations (scientific and policy related).
❖ Contribute to bringing coherence across EU and internationalapproaches (standards, methodologies, practices, definition, etc).
❖ Support the IBF Secretariat.
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New Horizon 2020 projects on FoodSystems Microbiome
➢ 4 Innovation Actions (IAs) will start between November2018 and January 2019.
➢ Each IA has a budget of ~ € 10 million (total investment of€ 40 million).
➢ The projects are expected to develop new microbiome-based applications for sustainable food systems.
➢ Different areas will be covered including: soil and marinemicrobiomes for improved agriculture and aquaculture, foodand feed products and services, big data management.
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Relevant Horizon 2020 topics for 2019
➢ LC-SFS-17-2019: Alternative proteins for food and feedIA – indicative budget per proposal: € 8 million
➢ CE-SFS-24-2019: Innovative and citizen-driven foodsystem approaches in cities
IA - indicative budget per proposal : € 7.5
➢ SFS-11-2018-2019: Anti-microbials and animal productionIA - indicative budget per proposal : € 6 millionDevelopment of alternatives to anti-microbials infarmed animal production, e.g. modulation of hostimmunity and/or microbial flora, feed additives ornovel molecules.
Future directions of microbiome R&I?
9"Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.comhttp://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1874
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Microbiome for safe, nutritious and healthy diets?
Microbiome for “zero” pesticides and fertilisers agriculture?
Microbiome for climate change mitigation in agriculture?
Defining human/animal/soil/plant microbiomes?
Microbiome for prevention and/or treatment of NCD?
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… let's all contribute to mark and celebrate the World Microbiome Day 2019!
World Microbiome Day was developed by APC MicrobiomeIreland and launched on Wednesday June 27th 2018.http://worldmicrobiomeday.com/
It is up to all of us to make this an annual event so…
Upcoming events
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22 October 2018, Brussels, BelgiumBioeconomy Conference (ec.europa.eu/research/bioeconomy )
22-23 November 2018, Vienna, AustriaConference: "People’s food - people’s health: Towards healthy and sustainableEuropean Food Systems" in the context of the Austrian EU presidency
27-30 November 2018, Ottawa, CanadaInternational Bioeconomy Forum – Microbiome Working Group meeting
Thank You
Website FOOD 2030: http://ec.europa.eu/research/food2030/
Twitter: #FOOD2030EU
This presentation shall neither be binding nor construed asconstituting commitment by the European Commission
