Project description
Training in soft matter science for sustainable food transition
The farm-to-fork strategy in the EU Green Deal and the UN Development Goals highlight food and environmental transitions as major global challenges. The shift to sustainable and healthy food requires moving from animal-based to plant-based diets. Soft matter science offers unique perspectives for rationalising fundamental aspects of structure-function relationships of plant-based soft materials and designing new foods. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the ESM project aims to train and develop young researchers in designing, producing, and assessing plant-based food products by providing interdisciplinary training in soft matter and food sciences. The goal is to equip them with the skills needed to address challenges in food and environmental transitions and to advance their careers through relevant outcomes.
Objective
Food and environmental transitions are worldwide major challenges as illustrated by the Farm to Fork Strategy, at the heart of the EU Green Deal, and by the United Nations Development Goals. Sustainable and healthy food requires an urgent shift from a diet rich in animal-based ingredients towards a diet enriched in plant-based ingredients. This is the challenge behind the Edible Soft Matter (ESM) project. Soft matter science has been tremendously successful in tackling complex problems involving multicomponent materials with a wide range of length and time scales and is now recognised as providing unique perspectives to understand the complexity of foods and to design new foods. ESM objective is to train and develop the employability of a new generation of eighteen young researchers, regulators, consultants and project leaders by providing them with a unique expertise in the design, production and quality assessment of innovative plant-based food products. The ESM Doctoral Candidates (DCs) will benefit from an international, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral training through research in basic and applied soft matter and food sciences. Through their Individual Research Projects and the network-wide training activities, characterised by a strong involvement of the non-academic partners, they will develop the hard and soft skills needed to face the current challenges related to food and environmental transitions.
The consortium includes eleven Beneficiaries (including three from the non-academic sector) from seven countries and eleven Associated Partners (including four from the non-academic sector), with worldwide recognised and complementary expertise in food and soft matter sciences. All DCs will be exposed to both academic and non-academic working environments.
ESM objectives are timely and the ESM unique training programme holds a great promise for the advancement of the DCs careers as well as for scientifically, technologically and socially relevant outputs.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencesphysical sciencescondensed matter physicssoft matter physics
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutrition
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral NetworksCoordinator
75794 Paris
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6708 PB Wageningen
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28006 Madrid
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25000 Besancon
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1504 Sofia
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22100 Lund
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1800 Vilvoorde
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6708 WH Wageningen
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32000 Haifa
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92150 Suresnes
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3000 Leuven
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8092 Zuerich
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1000 Sofia
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PL24 2SQ Par Cornwall
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1012WX Amsterdam
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31240 L'Union
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01290 CROTTET
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34090 Montpellier
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46022 Valencia
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72085 Le Mans
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32000 Haifa
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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