FAHRE Food and Health Research in Europe Expression of Interest

FAHRE is seeking a set of experts who will assist the project with its mapping of food and health funding and policy development actors and processes as well as with information that will contribute to a needs assessment in this area.

Seven thematic experts will be appointed with the following profiles:
1. Production: Knowledge across countries of research on health issues in food preparation and manufacturing
2. Safety: Knowledge across countries of research on biological and chemical safety in food
3. Consumers: Knowledge across countries of research on industry/public interface for food and health
4. Nutrition: Knowledge across countries of research on nutrition and health
5. Obesity: Knowledge across countries of research on obesity
6. Disease: Knowledge across countries of research on mechanisms and causes of food-related disease
7. Prevention: Knowledge across countries of research on policies and organisational interventions in food and health

The experts will need to cover broad research 'areas', and consider the research structures and programmes related to them. They will conduct 3 tasks:
1. Review existing resources
The expert will describe the landscape of research in their field from the perspective of stuctures and programmes. This will include information at European level, such as DG Research, European
Science Foundation, EC Directorates for Agriculture and Health, and wider activities and initiatives including UN organisations, specialist organisations in both public and industry sectors, and research policy groupings and reports.
2. Review of country reports
The expert will review the 33 country reports in relation to their field of expertise and consider how the national structures support their theme.
3. Preparation of 'needs and gaps'
Drawing together activities 1 and 2, the experts will provide a report of up to 15 pages for their technical field, with a section determining 'needs and gaps', which will be considered collectively at a day Workshop (10 November 2010) in Amsterdam and in an integrated report.
For a full brief contact the project manager Rachel Newton. Note CVs should be submitted by 14th May 2010.

Länder

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, United Kingdom