Objective Food quality and safety are crucial aspects of human life and are, therefore, prime policy objectives of the EU. Food quality and safety have to be secured through regulations with regard to inputs, production processes, outputs, transportation, storage, packaging, labeling, documentation of origin and the like, for creating an adequate infrastructure for food markets and their smooth development. The food industries in the CEE are undergoing sweeping ownership, technological, organizational and financial changes. The new decision-making processes should put a strong emphasis on safety and quality standards. Substantial changes in financial services, wholesale markets, commodities exchange, price information, transportation facilities and infrastructure are also needed. A foresight process is highly instrumental to tackle these complex issues. By bringing together the relevant stakeholders with their wide range of expertise and accumulated skills it is possible to identify emerging technological and market opportunities and threats, sider S&T and socio-eomic factors in their entirety, and thus devise appropriate policies and strategies, based on sensus among these stakeholders. The objectives of the project are as follows: a) To promote a new decision-making culture among managers and policy-makers in order to put quality and safety issues into the centre of the total food chain management. b) To identify future key technologies and new business models to promote the quality and safety requirements in food production, by establishing a Food Quality and Safety Platform in CEE countries. The ultimate goal of the project is to assist the total food chain in Central and Eastern European countries to reach international quality and safety standards, and in turn, to enhance European competitiveness as a whole by developing an industry, which is synonymous with safety, diversity, sophistication and products of high quality. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness modelsengineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technologyfood safetysocial sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societysocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemploymentsocial sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systems Keywords FOOD TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT ANALYSIS INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH NETWORKING Programme(s) FP6-FOOD - Food Quality and Safety: Thematic priority 5 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) FOOD-2005-T0 - Achieving the ERA objectives - Promoting SME participation - Stimulating international cooperation - Initiatives supporting policy development - Linking with new Member States and associated candidate countries - Dissemination/exploitation Call for proposal FP6-2005-FOOD-4-C See other projects for this call Funding Scheme SSA - Specific Support Action Coordinator UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION EU contribution No data Address Wagramer Strasse 5 300 VIENNA Austria See on map Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FUNDACION OBSERVATORIO DE PROSPECTIVA TECNOLOGICA INDUSTRIAL Spain EU contribution No data Address C/ JUAN BRAVO, 10 - 4ª PLANTA MADRID See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE VIENNA INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC STUDIES Austria EU contribution No data Address Oppolzergasse 6 1010 VIENNA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS, HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Hungary EU contribution No data Address Budaorsi str. 45. BUDAPEST See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNOLOGY CENTRE OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES CR Czechia EU contribution No data Address Rozvojova 135 PRAGUE 6 See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BIC GROUP, S.R.O. Slovakia EU contribution No data Address Zochova 5 BRATISLAVA 1 See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NACIONALNA VELETRZNICA DIONICKO DRUSTVO THE NATIONAL WHOLESALE MARKET INC. Croatia EU contribution No data Address Ulica Grada Vukovara 78 ZAGREB See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data EXECUTIVE AGENCY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUNDING Romania EU contribution No data Address SCHITU MAGUREANU 1, SECTOR 5 BUCHAREST See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data APPLIED RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATIONS FUND Bulgaria EU contribution No data Address 5 Alexander Zhendov St. SOFIA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
