Objective Multinutrient Maize aims to develop a prototype product to a stage where it can be taken up efficiently by developing countries. The following activities are planned: (a) Feeding trials in small animals to assess the safety and efficacy of the prototype and to expand its scope to include beneficial health applications thus providing added value; (b) human feeding trials in Spain; (c) further experimental field trials in Spain under Spanish regulations to comply with requirements for plant variety protection and registration, and to collect the agronomic and environmental data needed for experimental field trial applications in developing countries by collaborators; and (d) freedom to operate (FTO) analysis to monitor the intellectual property (IP) landscape prior to the release of the prototype maize to collaborators in developing countries. The latter activity will also identify IP constraints that need to be circumvented in a humanitarian context following the Golden Rice model, which has been widely publicized. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutrition Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) ERC-OA-2013-PoC - European Research Council ERC Proof of Concept Call for proposal ERC-2013-PoC See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CSA-SA(POC) - Supporting action (Proof of Concept) Host institution UNIVERSIDAD DE LLEIDA EU contribution € 149 791,75 Address Placa Victor Siurana 1 1 25003 Lleida Spain See on map Region Este Cataluña Lleida Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Núria Gabernet (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSIDAD DE LLEIDA Spain EU contribution € 149 791,75 Address Placa Victor Siurana 1 1 25003 Lleida See on map Region Este Cataluña Lleida Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Núria Gabernet (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data