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Policy labs have first national meetings as Fit4Food2030 enters second year

Thursday, 13 December 2018
The Fit4Food2030 project entered its second year in November. The project is well underway and has delivered the first concrete outcomes. Seven city labs and seven policy labs are up and running and have had their first meetings, working respectively on food system competences and aligning and further developing food system related R&I. The EU Think Tank has also had its first two meetings, even producing an unforeseen policy brief. Together, the city and policy labs and the EU Think Tank form the beginning of the FOOD2030 Platform, Fit4Food’s tool for systemic change of the food system. Read More...

JPI HDHL and Fit4Food at People’s Food – People’s Health conference in Vienna

Thursday, 13 December 2018
On the 22nd and 23rd of November, the Austrian EU presidency organized the People’s Food – People’s Health conference in Vienna. The Fit4Food2030 Romanian policy lab was presented as a promising best practice, while JPI HDHL was part of a workshop on Research and Innovation driving food systems for health. As a companion to the conference, a policy brief was released on how food systems can combine diet-related health with environmental and economic policy goals, written by Kelly Parsons and Corinna Hawkes of the Center for Food Policy in London. Read More...

5th International Conference of JPI HDHL on the 20th of February 2019

Friday, 12 October 2018
The 5th international conference of the Joint Programming Initiative ‘A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life’ will take place on February 20, 2019 in Brussels. We invite a wide variety of stakeholders from the area of food, nutrition and health to discuss the state of the art in the field of JPI HDHL and look towards the future. With this future in mind, we have given our conference the theme Diet as leverage point towards a healthy and sustainable food system. Read More...

ERA-HDHL “Nutrition & the Epigenome”: six projects recommended for funding

Sunday, 07 October 2018
The second non-cofunded action under ERA-HDHL focusses on the emerging field of nutrition & epigenetics. Together, 13 funding organisations from 11 countries launched a call for joint transnational research proposals on “Nutrition & the Epigenome” in February 2018. A total of 37 eligible full proposals were submitted to JPI HDHL in April. The Call Steering Committee selected 6 proposals, based on the ranking list provided by the Scientific Expert Committee. The selected proposals requested a total of 6,8 M EUR of funding from the participating countries. Read More...

Joint JPIs Declaration presented at Austrian Presidency conference on 10 years Joint Programming

Thursday, 27 September 2018
For 10 years, countries from Europe and beyond have been joining forces in Joint Programming Initiatives to tackle major societal challenges. To take stock at this milestone, and in light of the ongoing discussions about Horizon Europe, the Austrian EU Presidency organized a conference on ’10 Years Joint Programming – Achievements and the Way Forward’ on September 19 and 20 in Vienna, with the support of PI Urban Europe and FFG in cooperation with all JPIs. Discussions centered around the achievements of the JPIs, future contributions to strengthening the European Research Area and the importance of science-policy cooperation to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. Read More...

JPI HDHL as good practice case study in ERA-LEARN 2020 final annual report

Friday, 21 September 2018
The final annual report of ERA-LEARN 2020 on good practices in the implementation of JPIs focuses on the increasing relevance of the international dimension of Joint Programming processes. To highlight activities which are thought to be essential for an effective development and implementation of Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) the report features two case studies: “A healthy diet for a healthy life: a novel and structured approach for international outreach for P2Ps (international alignment)“ and “JPIAMR’s Approach to Policy Coordination”. Read More...