SAFEFOODERASAFEFOODERA
The Nordic Model forCooperation of National Food Safety
Research ProgramsCoordinated by The Nordic InnovationCentre (NICe)Coordinated by The Nordic InnovationCentre (NICe)
Lisbon 23th November 2006Oddur Már Gunnarsson
Coordinator
The Nordic The Nordic InnovationCentre InnovationCentre
(NICe)(NICe)
The Nordic regionThe Nordic regionIcelandIcelandNorwayNorwaySwedenSwedenFinlandFinland
Denmark _ Denmark _
The challengeThe Nordic countries, NCM and NICe are all running research and innovation
programmes on food. The food safety aspect of these research program-mes are fragmented and the funding is both insufficient and sub optimal.
The suggested solution1) A coordinated response towards this challenge by improving co-ordination of the national/regional programmes through networking.2) However, Food Safety is a global challenge, too large to be met by the Nordic countries acting alone.
Global Market
35 million cases of food poisoning within the EU each year, unknown number of deaths (population: 480 million)
76 million illnesses and 5000 deaths in US each year (population: 268 million)
One-third of the populations of developed countries may be effected by food borne illness each year
Only a fraction of outbreaks is reported
The The SAFEFOODERASAFEFOODERA primary objectiveprimary objective
is to establish a European platform for protecting consumers against health from the consumption of food
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
111
70
62
48
42
36
23
14
10
74
Campylobacter
Listeria
Salmonella
E.coli
Pathogen free production systems
Clostridium
Food borne viruses
Enterobacter
MAP
Others
Pathogens; 490 projects
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
Roadmap (RM1) for selection of topics for pilot calls.
Roadmap (RM2) for selection of topics for pilot calls.
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
* Through NICe ** Through NCM
Joint call pilot• Total budget:
– 2 400 000 euro in funding• ”Common pot”:
– Emerging Risk – Pathogen Free Production
Systems• ”Distributed pot”:
– Zoonosis• Duration:
– 1 Year• Funding members:
– management & ownership• ESC & PMG:
– initiators and overview
Timeline
1. Open the call September 20062. Deadline for the applications 15th December 20063. Evaluation December – February 20074. Funding decisions March 20075. Kick Off 1st May 20076. Finish of the projects April 2008
The evaluation criteria:
•Relevance according to the call•The chances for achieving the objectives
•Scientific quality•Value for money
•Enhancing International collaborative work
Dialogue or a workshop with stakeholdersFacilitating pan-European dissemination and exploitation of research results.
Time schedule SAFEFOODERA Stakeholder meetings:
Scientists (SAFE ++) Lisabon, 23 – 24 November 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
Expanding the networkEra-Net +Art 169Or ???
Where to go?
The SAFEFOODERA The SAFEFOODERA primary objectiveprimary objective
is to establish a European platform for protecting consumers against health risks from the consumption of food !!!
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
www.safefoodera.net
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www.nordicinnovation.net