METROFOOD-RI PREPARATORY PHASE PROJECT

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:

§ItalyAGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L’ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE

PARTNERS:

1.BelgiumINSTITUT SCIENTIFIQUE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE
2.Czech RepublicCESKA ZEMEDELSKA UNIVERZITA V PRAZE
3.Czech RepublicVYSOKA SKOLA CHEMICKO-TECHNOLOGICKA V PRAZE
4.FinlandRUOKAVIRASTO
5.Former Yugoslav Republic of MacedoniaJ.Z.U. INSTITUT ZA JAVNO ZDRAVJE NA REPUBLIKA MAKEDONIJA SKOPJE
6.FranceUNIVERSITE DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L’ADOUR
7.GermanyTECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
8.GreeceARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS
9.HungarySZEGEDI TUDOMANYEGYETEM
10.MoldovaFUNDATIA DAS – PENTRU O MOLDOVA BAZATA PE CUNOASTERE
11.NetherlandsRIJKSINSTITUUT VOOR VOLKSGEZONDHEID EN MILIEU
12.NetherlandsSTICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH
13.NorwayNORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU
14.PortugalINSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAUDE DR. RICARDO JORGE
15.RomaniaINSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU BIORESURSE ALIMENTARE
16.SloveniaINSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN
17.SpainFUNDACIO EURECAT
18.SwitzerlandPREMOTEC GMBH
19.TurkeyTURKIYE BILIMSEL VE TEKNOLOJIK ARASTIRMA KURUMU

DURATION: From 2019-12-01 to 2022-05-31 
LINKhttps://www.metrofood.eu/