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FOOD2030 Expert Group advises mission on healthy diets to reduce NCD’s

Friday, 22 June 2018
At the FOOD2030 conference in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on 14-15th June, a first presentation was made of the findings of the FOOD2030 Independent Expert Group. In their report ‘Recipe for change: An agenda for a climate-smart and sustainable food system for a healthy Europe’ the Expert Group defines focus areas and gives concrete recommendations to all the stakeholders in the food system. This includes a mission in the next framework programme on healthy diets to drastically reduce the incidence of non-communicable diseases. Read More...

JPI HDHL at the Food Nexus Visioning Summit 2018 ”Shaping the future of Food”, Paris 29-30 May

Monday, 28 May 2018
FoodNexus, a European network of multinational companies, SMEs and knowledge institutes in the area of food, is organizing the first FoodNexus Visioning Summit in Paris on 29-30 May. The aim is to provide clear recommendations on how to shape the future of food, starting from the question: “What are the most urgent problems facing the food industry in the next 10 years, and how can we best meet these challenges?” The JPI HDHL is participating in the summit through its new chair (from July 2018) Carlos Martinez Riera, who will give a presentation for the workshop on Food for health and wellbeing. The speakers also include the coordinator of the JPI HDHL ENPADASI network and a member of the Stakeholder Advisory Board. Read More...

Brochure and webinar: “Making the Most of Your Horizon 2020 Project”

Thursday, 17 May 2018
The European IPR Helpdesk organises trainings and activities in the field of Intellectual Property (IP) management and maximising impact in Horizon 2020 projects. They have developed a brochure that aims to clarify the terminology by illustrating the differences between communication, dissemination and exploitation, and to point out the areas they have in common. In addition, the IPR Helpdesk is organising a webinar on effective IP & outreach strategies to help increase the impact of research and innovation on 29 May 2018 (10.30 – 12.00hr). Read More...

Joint workshop Future Proofing Food Systems by SCAR and 3 JPIs (HDHL, FACCE and OCEANS)

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
On 13th June, a workshop on future proofing food systems will take place from 13.45 – 17.30hr at The Agricultural University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. This joint workshop is organised by the SCAR Food Systems Strategic Working Group and JPIs HDHL, OCEANS and FACCE. The workshop is a Plovdiv FOOD2030 High Level Conference side event and aims to build on the results of the SCAR FS SWG and collaboration between the three JPI’s. The objective of the workshop is to set the direction and decide what the next steps are for future-proofing food systems by increasing the impact of R&I programming and funding. To do so, the following questions will be discussed: How to address the identified R&I (investment) gaps, based on the mapping results of the SCAR FS SWG and the joint paper on FNS of the three JPIs; How to optimise the collaboration between the SCAR FS SWG and JPIs to develop and promote a food system approach. The results of this workshop should contribute to the strategic and operational plans of the SCAR FS SWG and the three JPIs. Furthermore, the outcomes can feed into FP9. More information: For additional information about the workshop, click here Registration is possible via the following website For additional information about the Plovdiv FOOD2030 High Level Conference click here Read More...

Fit4Food survey on trends, cases and breakthroughs

Thursday, 19 April 2018
Can you help Fit4Food2030 future-proof the food system? We would like to pick your brain about food related R&I, to create a comprehensive overview of relevant trends, showcases and potential breakthroughs. If you have 15 minutes to spare, please anwser our survey. Read More...

EC Implementation Roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud

Monday, 16 April 2018
The Commission adopted on 14 March 2018 the Implementation Roadmap for the European Science Cloud. The document presents the results and available evidence from an extensive consultation process that started with the publication of the Communication: European Cloud initiative. The consultation upheld the intervention logic presented in the Communication: to create a fit for purpose pan-European federation of research data infrastructures, with a view to moving from the current fragmentation to a situation where data is easy to store, find, share and re-use. Read More...