Food and Health - a Grand Challenge for Europe!
1 October 2011 - 30 November 2011
Austria
Are you working in the Food and Health Research fields in Europe? Perhaps you are a policy-maker, responsible for funding programmes, industry expert, even a professor or a scientist or, more generally speaking, you are involved on research and innovation activities within the Food and Health fields? If you answered yes to any of these options we invite you to continue reading and participate in an important consultation process regarding the future of the Food and Health Research in Europe!
FAHRE, Food and Health Research in Europe, is a project funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union aiming to increase the structuring of food and health research and support cooperation towards the European Research Area.
After an extensive analysis of the research needs in nine subject areas related to food and health research and a mapping exercise covering the national activities of the same research fields in 32 European countries, FAHRE is now implementing a wide consultation process on the Draft Strategic Proposals – a set of recommendations regarding the future of Food and Health Research in Europe that will contribute to the current discussion about the next Research Framework Programme (Horizon 2020).
The main course of action is now clear for the FAHRE project: “Food and health is a Grand Challenge for Europe. There should be more trans-disciplinary work, in particular stronger social and intervention research, and agencies linking the ministries for food, health and research with stakeholders to create the European Food and Health Research Area.”
With this in mind, we want to hear from you and want to understand your thoughts on the importance of these priorities towards more research for healthy eating, how can these be implemented or what else could be done?
We invite you to take part on this discussion and to comment on the FAHRE Strategic Proposals Draft Report (check the report here - http://www2.spi.pt/fahre/docs/FAHRE_StrategicProposals_ForConsultation.pdf(opens in new window)) and to share your ideas on how to improve food and health research.
FAHRE, Food and Health Research in Europe, is a project funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union aiming to increase the structuring of food and health research and support cooperation towards the European Research Area.
After an extensive analysis of the research needs in nine subject areas related to food and health research and a mapping exercise covering the national activities of the same research fields in 32 European countries, FAHRE is now implementing a wide consultation process on the Draft Strategic Proposals – a set of recommendations regarding the future of Food and Health Research in Europe that will contribute to the current discussion about the next Research Framework Programme (Horizon 2020).
The main course of action is now clear for the FAHRE project: “Food and health is a Grand Challenge for Europe. There should be more trans-disciplinary work, in particular stronger social and intervention research, and agencies linking the ministries for food, health and research with stakeholders to create the European Food and Health Research Area.”
With this in mind, we want to hear from you and want to understand your thoughts on the importance of these priorities towards more research for healthy eating, how can these be implemented or what else could be done?
We invite you to take part on this discussion and to comment on the FAHRE Strategic Proposals Draft Report (check the report here - http://www2.spi.pt/fahre/docs/FAHRE_StrategicProposals_ForConsultation.pdf(opens in new window)) and to share your ideas on how to improve food and health research.