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Approval of the agenda Taking stock and future plans

Oddur Már GunnarssonScheveningen the 28th September 2006

28 September • 08.30-09.00 Registration• 09.00-09.10 Welcome

Inspector-General Mr. André Kleinmeulman• 09.10-09.30 Key Note speaker European Commission ERA

Mr. Giorgio Clarotti, Scientific Officer,European Commission DG Research ERA-NET

• 09.30-10.00 Approval of the agenda & Taking stock and future plans Oddur Már Gunnarsson

• 10.00-10.30 Launching of the pilot calls. Mads Peter Schreiber

• 10.30-11.00 Coffee Break• 11.00-15.00 Workshop ‘Pilot Call’ in 3 working groups building on the lessons learned

Chair Philippe Verger11.00-12.30 Flash back upon agenda formation, topic selection and call

preparation• 12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.00 Suggestions for the future calls; what can we do better• 15.00-15.30 Coffee Break

Agenda

• 15.30-17.00 Reports from the Work package facilitators • 15.30-16.00 WP 4 Joint Activities. The October workshop. Alisdair Wotherspoon• 16.00-16.30 WP 6 External Communication, Meetings with Stakeholders. Ola Eide• 16.30-17.00 WP 1 Management Framework. Amendments to the Contract, Revised budget, 18

month report lessons learned. Oddur Már Gunnarsson

• 17.00-18.00 Get together/freshening up• 18.00 Bus to restaurant• 18.15-19.00 Sightseeing Madurodam• 19.00-19.30 Happy hour• 19.30 Dinner • Honorable guest Director-General Mr. Ate Oostra

29 September• 09.00 -10.30 Workshop 2 Expansion of the network chair Hartmut Waldner• 10.30 -11.00 Outcome and recommendations of the workshop ‘pilot calls’• 11.00 -11.30 Coffee break• 11.30 -12.30 Final Conclusion Josh Kjosbakken • 12.30 -13.30 Lunch• 13.30 End of ESC meeting

The The SAFEFOODERASAFEFOODERA primary objectiveprimary objective

is to establish a European platform for protecting consumers against health risks

through a co-ordination action ERA-NET of 15 Member States, 3 Associated Countriesand 3 regional organisations

representing in total 450 million European citizens

The provisional strategic topicsThe provisional strategic topics

1. Emerging risks1. Emerging risks - A potential food or feed borne or diet-related hazard that may become a risk for human health in the (near) future.

2. Risk analysis in food safety2. Risk analysis in food safety - Methodologies in protecting the consumers against health risks and misleading information, including crisis management, consumer perception and risk/benefit analysis.

3. Contaminants3. Contaminants - Health risks from natural- and environmental contaminants in the food chain. 3.1 Process induced risk3.1 Process induced risk - Health risks from chemical pollution formed during processing of foods.

4. Traceability 4. Traceability - Documented and harmonised routines for recall of food products from the value chain - Development of reliable traceability methods and systems.

5. Pathogens5. Pathogens - Pathogen free production systems - From reactive to preventive and predictive actions.

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Contaminants

Pathogens

Emerging risks

Risks analysis

Traceability

Others

Active in topic total 35 answers

359273

272137135

112

10387

8072

5650

222

Chemical analysis

Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Metabonomic

Surveillance

Predictive microbiology

Genetic of microbes

Statistics and modelling

Experimental toxicology

Allergy and immunology

Economics

Human epidemiology

Computer science

Social science

Others

Scientific disciplines; 2.359 projects

Joint Call PilotTopics

Emerging risks(Common pot)

Pat. free production(Common pot)

Zoonosis(Virtual pot)

Country

Baque-country   x x

Cyprus   x x

Denmark x* x* x**

Germany x   x

Finland x* x* x

Netherlands x   x

Norway x x x

Portugal x   x

Iceland x x x

Sweden x* x x**

UK   x x

Latvia x

* Through NICe ** Through NCM

Expanding the networkDialog with StakeholdersPilot 2Era-Net +Art 169

Where to go?

17 countries have been contacted 9 EU countries, 4 Non EU European countries and 4 Third Countries the result so far is:Brazil, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania and Macedonia are attending the ESC meeting.China and Thailand have communicated interest Austria is not attending. And Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic and Spain have not responded

Expanding the network

Dialogue or a workshop with stakeholdersFacilitating pan-European dissemination and exploitation of research results.

Time schedule SAFEFOODERA Stakeholder meetings:

Scientists (SAFE ++) Lisabon, 23 – 24 October 2006

Food Industry (CIAA) Copenhagen, 14 – 15 December 2006

Retail and Food Service January 2007

Consumers (BEUC) February 2007

Commission and EFSA March 2007

Invited Stakeholders Month / year

building on the lessons learned

Pilot 2

Aims: Aims: To investigate the feasibility of establishing a food safety research ideas forum for public funders to facilitate opportunities for joint activities.

Planned Workshop in Bonn - 30 - 31 October 2006

ERA-NET+

This could take the form of a Community top-up for joint calls of proposals (to the tune of 30% of total costs, provided a number of conditions are satisfied), where participating entities create a common fund for the purpose of the action. As such, the ERA-NET+ mechanism, which will remain a simple and flexible coordination mechanism between national or regional research programmes, could become a more effective bridge toward…..

the topic should have a high relevance and has to involve a sufficient number of Member States the field of the proposal needs to be focused and shall be covered by the Framework Programme, both in terms of contents and of budget allocation. the field of the proposal has to be of major interest for the Community it has to be clearly demonstrated that Article 169 is the appropriate instrument to allow the Community to contribute to the coordination and the cooperation between national RTD programmes and to achieve the foreseen goals. following the approval by Council and European Parliament the initiative can be started, appropriate structures can be created and further decision making can take place between the involved Member States and the Commission.

Article 169 initiatives

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