Description du projet
Explorer la Science des comportements alimentaires à l’échelle européenne
Le projet COMFOCUS, financé par l’UE, compte examiner des infrastructures de recherche nationales et régionales clés dans le domaine de la science des comportements alimentaires. Sa mission est de faire progresser la communauté de la science des comportements alimentaires au-delà de son niveau actuel de fragmentation, qui l’empêche de devenir un domaine de recherche riche en données, contribuant au problème sociétal des choix alimentaires (mal)sains. Envisagé comme une bibliothèque de métadonnées et d’outils de services numériques, la plateforme de connaissance COMFOCUS constituera un point focal facilement accessible pour tous les chercheurs européens, dans l’application des principes FAIR et de l’utilisation responsable des données de recherche et innovation. Les étapes du projet incluent un ensemble coordonné d’activités de mise en réseau, de recherche conjointe et d’accès transnational et virtuel à des infrastructures de recherche clés. Les découvertes seront diffusées et soutenues par un forum de parties prenantes.
Objectif
COMFOCUS brings together, integrates on European scale, and opens up key national and regional research infrastructures in the inherently interdisciplinary field of food consumer science to all European researchers, from both academia and industry, ensuring their optimal use and joint development. Its mission is to advance the food consumer science community beyond its current level of fragmentation that is preventing it from being the data-rich science area contributing to the societal problem of (un-)healthy food choices.
As a library of meta data and digital service tools, the COMFOCUS Knowledge platform is developed as an easily accessible focal point for all European researchers to make this happen within the principles of FAIR and Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) data use.
COMFOCUS achieves this through a coordinated set of activities on networking, joint research and transnational and virtual access to key research infrastructures. Networking activities foster the culture of co-operation between 10 key research infrastructures, and beyond in interaction with academic and industry research users and technology developers. Joint research activities develop the harmonisation protocols for measurement and research procedures both in the area of conventional self-reported data and more objective emerging food consumer science methodologies. The transnational and virtual access activities ensure that researchers from outside the consortium are supervised to become experienced with this new way of working, while also contributing to the data infrastructure from which the COMFOCUS Knowledge platform can further grow into the future.
Promotion of transnational and virtual access and dissemination of COMFOCUS outcomes and innovations for maximum impact will be supported by a Stakeholder Forum from relevant bodies such as consumer organizations, food industry, retail, NGOs, and policy makers at national and EU levels.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
6708 PB Wageningen
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