SELAMAT workshop "EU-ASIA cooperation on Food Safety: a strategy forward"
11 April 2005 - 12 April 2005
Portugal
The ASEM process is an informal dialogue between Europe and Asia based on equal partnership and recognition and initiated with the idea of strengthening the relationship between both regions in the new global context of the 1990s. The ASEM Scientific and technological cooperation has its origin in the Beijing Ministerial meeting on Science and Technology held in 1999, where a number of priority areas for S&T dialogue were identified (food safety, forestry, aquaculture, water, clean industrial production). From these priorities, concrete proposals for follow up emerged, based on joint efforts by coordinators in Asian and European ASEM partners countries and involving actively scientific communities, companies, public authorities and civil society stakeholders. SELAMAT constitutes the concrete ASEM proposal in the food safety area.
The overall aim of SELAMAT is to establish a permanent virtual platform on food safety. This platform has the following objectives:
i) promote European and Asian collaboration,
ii) contribute to opening up the European Research Area,
iii) mobilise the European and Asian Research Communities while supporting Asian foreign and development policies,
iv) develop an action-oriented agenda for ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) S&T (Science & Technology) co-operation on food safety for conventional and GMO products, including detailed thematic content, reflecting bi-regional societal priorities, through the active involvement of scientific communities, universities, companies, public authorities and whenever relevant civil society stakeholders e.g. consumer or farmer organisations,
v) promote ways and means of effective networking, continuing S&T dialogue on joint activities concerning RTD policies, S&T projects, innovation, training as well as concrete opportunities for human, institutional and material support from national and regional instruments and the corresponding bilateral, bi-regional and whenever appropriate, international instruments.
To enable such developments, workshops, discussion meetings and training courses will be organised for scientists, regulators and industry from EU and Asia. Special attention will be paid to involve SME's from both areas. Furthermore, joint research areas will be identified and formation of research partnerships to reinforce synergy will be stimulated.
The SELAMAT project has 5 research partners and includes also industry and civil society associations and other bodies from a large number of ASEM countries .
The two days workshop that will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on 11-12 April 2005, aims at formalising the platform and develop a plan for future activities. It will count with the participation of a number of EU and ASIA representatives, including researchers of EU funded projects (6FP), bodies dealing with food/food safety (e.g. EFSA, FAO) and ASEM representatives from countries such as China, Malaysia, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Japan.For further info please visit http://www.selamat.net(opens in new window) or contact,e-mail: Elisabetta.Balzi@cec.eu.int,e-mail: Elena.sachez@cec.eu.int
The overall aim of SELAMAT is to establish a permanent virtual platform on food safety. This platform has the following objectives:
i) promote European and Asian collaboration,
ii) contribute to opening up the European Research Area,
iii) mobilise the European and Asian Research Communities while supporting Asian foreign and development policies,
iv) develop an action-oriented agenda for ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) S&T (Science & Technology) co-operation on food safety for conventional and GMO products, including detailed thematic content, reflecting bi-regional societal priorities, through the active involvement of scientific communities, universities, companies, public authorities and whenever relevant civil society stakeholders e.g. consumer or farmer organisations,
v) promote ways and means of effective networking, continuing S&T dialogue on joint activities concerning RTD policies, S&T projects, innovation, training as well as concrete opportunities for human, institutional and material support from national and regional instruments and the corresponding bilateral, bi-regional and whenever appropriate, international instruments.
To enable such developments, workshops, discussion meetings and training courses will be organised for scientists, regulators and industry from EU and Asia. Special attention will be paid to involve SME's from both areas. Furthermore, joint research areas will be identified and formation of research partnerships to reinforce synergy will be stimulated.
The SELAMAT project has 5 research partners and includes also industry and civil society associations and other bodies from a large number of ASEM countries .
The two days workshop that will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on 11-12 April 2005, aims at formalising the platform and develop a plan for future activities. It will count with the participation of a number of EU and ASIA representatives, including researchers of EU funded projects (6FP), bodies dealing with food/food safety (e.g. EFSA, FAO) and ASEM representatives from countries such as China, Malaysia, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Japan.For further info please visit http://www.selamat.net(opens in new window) or contact,e-mail: Elisabetta.Balzi@cec.eu.int,e-mail: Elena.sachez@cec.eu.int