New research infrastructure in support of food and nutrition
Metrology provides the basis for reliable measurements and confidence in measurement results, supporting a wide range of sectors such as food and nutrition, thus impacting the economy and society.
The EU-funded METROFOOD-PP project will develop the organisational, operational and strategic frame of METROFOOD-RI (Infrastructure for promoting Metrology in Food and Nutrition), which is a new distributed research infrastructure aimed at providing high-quality services in support to the agrifood sector with specific reference to food quality, safety and traceability and sustainability of the agrifood systems.
Objective
METROFOOD-RI – Infrastructure for Promoting Metrology in Food and Nutrition – is a pan-European Research Infrastructure (RI) aimed to promote scientific excellence in the field of food quality and safety.
It provides high-quality metrology services in food and nutrition, comprising an important cross-section of highly interdisciplinary and interconnected fields throughout the food value chain, including agrifood, sustainable development, food safety, quality, traceability and authenticity, environmental safety, and human health.
METROFOOD-RI has been selected to the ESFRI Roadmap2018 as mature enough to be implemented within the next ten years.
The Action is aimed to support METROFOOD-RI to grow from its current status (research-based network of facilities and skills) to a mature, centrally-coordinated, integrated RI, with the legal, financial and technical maturity required for implementing it.
The main objective is to develop the organizational, operational and strategic framework of METROFOOD-RI. Activities include legal, governance, financial, technical, strategic and administrative aspects carried out in 15 work packages, organised in 3 blocks dedicated respectively to: the organisation of the legal entity that will manage the future RI, i.e. ERIC; define the operation and the operational standards at the level of the whole RI and for the National Nodes, as well as the role of the RI as service-oriented organisation; define the long term activities for the future RI and update the Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda, in response to the actual and future challenges in the agrifood sector and for the Society.
The main outcome will be the establishment of legal and financial commitment for the future ERIC, ensuring long-term common commitment, decision-making and funding engagement. Continuous relations with stakeholders and the user community will be kept in order to ensure the addressing of their needs at the best, and to focus strategies and planned services
COORDINATOR:
PARTNERS:
| 1. | Belgium | INSTITUT SCIENTIFIQUE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE |
| 2. | Czech Republic | CESKA ZEMEDELSKA UNIVERZITA V PRAZE |
| 3. | Czech Republic | VYSOKA SKOLA CHEMICKO-TECHNOLOGICKA V PRAZE |
| 4. | Finland | RUOKAVIRASTO |
| 5. | Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | J.Z.U. INSTITUT ZA JAVNO ZDRAVJE NA REPUBLIKA MAKEDONIJA SKOPJE |
| 6. | France | UNIVERSITE DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L’ADOUR |
| 7. | Germany | TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN |
| 8. | Greece | ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS |
| 9. | Hungary | SZEGEDI TUDOMANYEGYETEM |
| 10. | Moldova | FUNDATIA DAS – PENTRU O MOLDOVA BAZATA PE CUNOASTERE |
| 11. | Netherlands | RIJKSINSTITUUT VOOR VOLKSGEZONDHEID EN MILIEU |
| 12. | Netherlands | STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH |
| 13. | Norway | NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU |
| 14. | Portugal | INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAUDE DR. RICARDO JORGE |
| 15. | Romania | INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU BIORESURSE ALIMENTARE |
| 16. | Slovenia | INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN |
| 17. | Spain | FUNDACIO EURECAT |
| 18. | Switzerland | PREMOTEC GMBH |
| 19. | Turkey | TURKIYE BILIMSEL VE TEKNOLOJIK ARASTIRMA KURUMU |
DURATION: From 2019-12-01 to 2022-05-31
LINK: https://www.metrofood.eu/