Objective
"Europe is facing major challenges in promoting health and reducing the disease burden of age- and diet-related NCDs by means of lifestyle, food and nutrition. Research collaboration, innovation, and capacity building are essential to efficiently benefit from the – mainly public – research resources. To realise this, EU-wide Research Infrastructures (RIs) are essential. The aim of EURO-DISH is to provide advanced and feasible recommendations on the needs for RIs to ESFRI and other stakeholders. EURO-DISH will focus on needs for integration of existing and the development of new food and health RIs that are relevant for innovations in mechanistic research and public health nutrition strategies across Europe. Building upon available projects and mappings, we will systematically map existing RIs and needs for integration of existing and new RIs, and supporting governance structures throughout Europe. Food and health research comprises multiple disciplines and a broad research area. To assure a balanced attention for the area as a whole, the mapping will be organised around the ‘DISH’ model: ‘Determinants, Intake, Status, and Health’, which represents four key building blocks of the research area as well as different stages of RI development. To go beyond existing mappings, we will synthesize the results by integrating the needs for hard & soft RIs as well as governance; moreover as this may identify newly emerging gaps and needs, it will define larger entities of required RIs. We will develop a conceptual design and roadmap for implementing the most important RIs. It will include links with basic and human science infrastructures, as well as integration and collaboration with industry, third countries and feasibility. Two case studies on RIs, identified as highly relevant by the JPI HDHL for 2012-2015, will enrich the project by designing and testing of pilot RIs that feed the overall conceptual design and roadmap, which will be aligned with on-going activities."
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-KBBE-2012-6-singlestage
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Funding Scheme
CSA-SA - Support actionsCoordinator
6708 PB Wageningen
Netherlands
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Participants (15)
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00178 ROMA
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6708 PB Wageningen
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GU2 7XH Guildford
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1040 BRUXELLES
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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NR4 7UQ Norwich
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69622 Villeurbanne Cedex
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93430 Villetaneuse
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69007 Lyon 7eme
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3721 MA Bilthoven
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00184 Roma
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6703 HD Wageningen
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1200 Bruxelles / Brussel
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22100 LUND
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