Objective
The citrus industry's importance to the Mediterranean is clear, its countries being among the world's top producers and Europe one of the largest sumers. Increased demand in recent years has been fuelled by the promotion of fruit for a well balanced diet and sumer awareness of citrus fruit benefits. Innovation and ongoing research are necessary to further improve quality and ensure safety at all stages of the supply chain, raising competitiveness, quality of life and sumer fidence. There is a need to integrate research in this area, which the proposed project will promote using initiatives to stimulate cooperation, both internationally and between research organisations and commercial operators including SMEs, to create a network of horizontal research interest, especially for the Mediterranean region. The main project outputs will be: -A sustainable Mediterranean network for the citrus sector to support research relevant to safe and high quality cross -border supply chains. A needs assessment survey to focus research and development on improving safety and quality including policy recommendations and an action plan of research agendas. -Targeted measures to facilitate access to knowledge, training and technology to increase SME participation in research, improve the exploitation of results, and accelerate innovation. -Mediterranean Networking initiatives to stimulate international co-operation and support policy development by integrating current related research and providing added value. EuroMedCitrusNet will explore the frontiers of knowledge in citrus sector research and closely addresses the main objectives of the "Thematic Priority 5: Food Quality and Safety" as well as important needs of society (e.g. quality of life). A well balanced, multi-disciplinary sortium, highly complementary in terms of scientific expertise, personal skills and uniqueness of facilities.
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. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture fruit growing
- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies food technology food safety
- medical and health sciences health sciences nutrition
- engineering and technology environmental engineering natural resources management water management
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Programme(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2005-FOOD-4-C
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Funding Scheme
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Coordinator
PORTO
Portugal
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