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EU funding (€4,997,142): Communities on Food Consumer Science Hor1 Mar 2021 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"

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Communities on Food Consumer Science

COMFOCUS brings together, integrates on European scale, and opens up key national and regional research infrastructures in the inherently interdisciplinary field of food consumer science to all European researchers, from both academia and industry, ensuring their optimal use and joint development. Its mission is to advance the food consumer science community beyond its current level of fragmentation that is preventing it from being the data-rich science area contributing to the societal problem of (un-)healthy food choices. As a library of meta data and digital service tools, the COMFOCUS Knowledge platform is developed as an easily accessible focal point for all European researchers to make this happen within the principles of FAIR and Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) data use. COMFOCUS achieves this through a coordinated set of activities on networking, joint research and transnational and virtual access to key research infrastructures. Networking activities foster the culture of co-operation between 10 key research infrastructures, and beyond in interaction with academic and industry research users and technology developers. Joint research activities develop the harmonisation protocols for measurement and research procedures both in the area of conventional self-reported data and more objective emerging food consumer science methodologies. The transnational and virtual access activities ensure that researchers from outside the consortium are supervised to become experienced with this new way of working, while also contributing to the data infrastructure from which the COMFOCUS Knowledge platform can further grow into the future. Promotion of transnational and virtual access and dissemination of COMFOCUS outcomes and innovations for maximum impact will be supported by a Stakeholder Forum from relevant bodies such as consumer organizations, food industry, retail, NGOs, and policy makers at national and EU levels.


Funded Companies:

Company name Funding amount
Aarhus Universitet €276,270
Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita Di Bologna €182,155
De La Cueva Gonzalez Cotera Javier €78,600
DIL DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FUR LEBENSMITTELTECHNIK e. V. €33,942
GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAT GOTTINGEN STIFTUNG OFFENTLICHEN RECHTS €70,233
Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentaries €343,744
Institut Jozef Stefan €176,750
Nofima AS €186,375
NOLDUS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY B.V. €129,250
Slovenska Polnohospodarska Univerzita V Nitre €290,688
Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovacao Consultadoria Empresarial e Fomento da Inovacao SA €544,250
STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH €974,875
TURUN YLIOPISTO €212,025
Universita Degli Studi Di Trento €220,756
University of Surrey €587,363
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY €689,868

Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101005259

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