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Questionnaire on Microbiome R&I strategies and funding

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Knowledge about the microbiome is very much guided by what type of research is being funded. The microbiome has become of interest in all parts of the food system, and there are overlapping research interests all over the world. JPI HDHL is involved through HDHL INTIMIC in the H2020 project MicrobiomeSupport, which maps R&I strategies on the microbiome and funding on a regional, national and international level. Read More...

JPI HDHL SAB and SHAB both welcome new chair

Thursday, 13 December 2018
The Scientific Advisory Board and the Stakeholder Advisory Board of JPI HDHL will both start 2019 with a new chair. Edith Feskens, professor of nutrition and health over the life course at Wageningen University and formerly the vice-chair of the SAB, takes over from Helen Roche. Laura Fernandez, director of EUFIC, was elected as new chair of the SHAB and takes over from Beate Kettlitz. Read More...

Interview with Beate Kettlitz (ETP Food for Life), departing chair of the JPI HDHL Stakeholder Advisory Board

Thursday, 13 December 2018
Since January 2013, Beate Kettlitz has been the chair and the representative of the member organisation ‘ETP Food for Life’ in the JPI HDHL Stakeholder Advisory Board (SHAB). Now, after a long career in the food policy and science area, she is retiring at the end of 2018. So before saying goodbye, we took the opportunity to interview her and look back on her career and her role in the JPI HDHL. Read More...

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...

Programme 5th JPI HDHL conference almost complete

Thursday, 13 December 2018
We are very happy to announce the keynote speakers for our JPI HDHL conference on February 20 2019 in Brussels, that has the theme ‘Diet as leverage point towards a healthy and sustainable food system’. Professor Helen Roche of University College Dublin will discuss the state of the art in the area of diet, nutrition and health and present the new JPI HDHL Strategic Research Agenda. Dr. Line Gordon of the Stockholm Resilience Center will look at the role of diet in the food system and how gastronomy can contribute to healthier, more sustainable eating. Registration is now open on the conference webpage! 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...