Highlights

1. European BioPerspectives 2007: a high-level conference of the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, entitled En Route to a Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy, took place on 30 May 2007 in Cologne, Germany.
2. Presentations from the 'Consumer science workshop', held on 13 December 2006 in Brussels.
3. The "Food Quality and Safety Research: First Results from FP6" conference has been held on 12 December 2006 in Brussels and attracted 180 participants from research institutions and councils, industrial associations, advisory bodies and policy makers. View the programme (including experts' presentations) of the conference.
4. Presentations from a workshop on 'TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FOOD CHAIN – CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES', held on 7-8 December 2006 in Brussels.
5. The 2nd Workshop on "Converging Technologies for Food: Nanotech, Bioinfo, Cognitive Sciences" on the potential and practical application of converging technologies in the food sector has been held on 21 and 22 November 2006 in Brussels. View the rationale and programme (including experts' presentations) of the workshop.
6. "Enabling Technologies for Nutrition Research", a workshop on health-oriented human nutrition research has been held on 26 - 27 September, 2006 in Bruxelles. View the rationale and programme (including experts' presentations) of the workshop.
7. Animal genomics in the spotlight: report on a workshop held in Brussels under the auspices of the US ? EC task force on Biotechnology Research.
8. Specific call to promote the participation of partners from Targeted Third Countries in projects for which contracts are already signed or under negotiation in priority thematic areas of research FP6-2006-TTC-TU-Priority-5 FOOD. Closing Date: 16 May 2006
9. Information on 1st call projects is now searchable on CORDIS
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10. Associated Candidate Countries - ACC
    Support offered for the integration of Candidate Countries organisations in the Food priority research activities
11. 2nd call for proposals
    • FP6-2003-Food-2-A. Closing Date: 5 February 2004
      Specific information for SSAs
    • FP6-2003-Food-2-B. Closing Date: 29 September 2004


12. Projects to be funded following 1st call for proposals
    • Overview of first call results (based on the July press release).
    • List and summaries of projects.


13. Overwhelming response to 'food quality and safety' call, says Commission, 2003-07-23.
    
    
14. Commission launches web portal on endocrine disrupter research, 2003-07-16.
    
    
15. Results of the Competitiveness Council of Ministers, Brussels, 3rd March 2003
    
    
16. The EC has adopted a strategy paper Life sciences and biotechnology - A Strategy for Europe - containing recommendations and an action plan. (see also the press release)