The objective of FoodEnTwin was to create a networking collaboration among the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry (UBFC) and its Center of Research Excellence for Molecular Food Sciences (CoE MFS) and four high renowned institutes from Sweden (Karolinska InstitutetI), Austria (Medical University of Vienna) and Belgium (KULeuven and Ghent University) providing a unique opportunity for UBFC and its partners to increase their scientific excellence and visibility, technology innovation capacity and enable frontier research at the crossroad of food, agriculture, chemistry, nutrition and environmental sciences by the infusion of –Omics technologies and experimental animal models.
The project focused on the key target actions of twinning of research activities through networking, training and a lecturing program resulting in a roadmap for a future collaboration.
The scientific topic addressed the major challenge of how environmental pollution affects the food we eat at the molecular level. The project had a significant societal impact. Our dissemination approach presented our networking ideas to a broad public, from experts, the science community and industry stakeholder organization, to interested, non-professionals, making society more aware of the impact that environment has on food and the importance of new approaches in food, nutrition and environmental sciences. To achieve the objectives of the FoodEnTwin project, the consortium partners have implemented a comprehensive set of measures within the project’s key work packages (WPs): Short term staff exchanges; (WP1), Training workshops, and summer schools; (WP2), Dissemination and outreach. (WP3)
The aim of this 3-year project was to use cutting-edge -omics technologies (proteomics, transcriptomics, digestomics, allergomics, metalomics and lipidomics) and experimental animal models to address the challenges in food, nutrition and environmental sciences in a way that enables the creation of a pan-European research network through the twinning research activities in this project. The final results of the project resulted in training of junior researchers in four advanced training schools organized by the project, 24 short terms scientific exchanges of researchers for the purpose of training and work on collaborative topics to address how environmental pollution affects the food we eat at the molecular level, as well as organization of three workshops and a final symposium.
