András Sebők Campden BRI Magyarország Nonprofit Kft.

1. NTPs as INSTRUMENT in FP7:an example of the two way flow knowledge, the European Technology Platform”Food for Life” and the ”Transparent_Food” PF7 project András Sebők Campden BRI Magyarország Nonprofit Kft.

2. National Food Technology Platforms of ETP Food for Life (1) • Initiatives under the leadership of the industry under the umbrella of the ETP • Voice of the industry • Established in more than 27countries in Europe • In 9 additional countries: establishing of the NFTP is in progress and/or planned • NFTPs from cca 50 – 500 members/country: participation in the NFTP network • Industry, SMEs • Researchers • Policy makers, public institutions • Consumer’s (organisations) • Other members of the food chain 2

3. National Food Technology Platforms of ETP Food for Life (2) • National forums, under the umbrella of Joint European Vision, Strategic Research Agenda, Implementation Plan developed by the ETP • Adjusted to national needs and conditions: National Vision Document, Strategic Research Agenda, Implementation Plan • Dialogue between industry/SMEs, research providers, government/funding bodies • National languages • NFTPs can act as hubs for consultations and dissemination • Collaboration of NFTPs 3

4. Islanda Finlandia Norvegia Russia Estonia Svezia Lettonia Danimarca Irlanda UK Svizzera Turchia Libano Israele 4

5. Aprocedure fordissemination of the resultsat national level through National Food Technology Platforms (NFTP’s) of the ETP Food for Life • A standard operational procedure, which ensures • regular supply of; • easy access to; • prepared information in a standardised format to the NFTPs, what they can disseminate it to their members • Includes: • Short summary of the results • Presentations at NFTPs regular meetings • Preparation of presentation on material 5

6. What can the ETP Food for Life and its NFTPs offer for FP7 (1) • Networking, events • Enhancing collaboration, capacity building • Information on main research trends and challenges to meet industry needs • Information, awareness building on results of publicly funded research • Lobbying

7. What can the ETP Food for Life and its NFTPs offer for FP7? (2) Networking on • national • transnational • European • food chain stakeholder’s • interdisciplinary level • European wide networking • Personal-based on common interest, expertise • Organisations • National Technology Platforms

8. What can the ETP Food for Life and its NFTPs offer for FP7? (3) Enhancing collaboration, capability building • Access to complementary knowledge • Access to peer view and feedback • Development of collective knowledge • Access to partner search - matchmaking • Incubation of international, national project ideas+ development of project teams • Increased opportunities for research cooperation/participation in FP 7 projects • Opportunities for benchmarking • Business partnerships beyond the projects

9. What can the ETP Food for Life and its NFTPs offer for FP7? (4) Contribution and access to comprehensive, structured, collective, regularly updated view of the industry and other stakeholders • Main market, consumer, society trends, • Key thrusts, • Main research challenges • Main research objectives • Key topics and deliverables • Priorities, resources • Described in the Vision Document, Strategic Research Agenda, Implementation Plan

10. What can the ETP Food for Life and its NFTPs offer for FP7 (5) Information, awareness building on • Project calls, funding opportunities • Results on publicly funded European, transnational and research projects • Lobbying • ETP Food for Life is regularly consulted for ideas for call’s subjects • Cca. 90% of the food related calls in FP7 were on the list proposed by the ETP as well • NFTPs have a significant input: Cooperation; ERA-NET; Joint Programming • Recommendations of NFTPs and SME Task Force

11. PARTNERS: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn – UBO/Germany - coordinator Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft e.V. – KTBL/Germany Technische Universität Berlin - TUB/Germany European Association for Food Safety (SAFE consortium) – SAFE/Belgium Institutet för Livsmedel och Bioteknik AB – SIK/Sweden Aarhus Universitet - AU/Denmark City University London – City/Great Britain RLabs Market Research Ltd – Rlabs/Greece Ghent University – UGENT/Belgium ”Campden BRI Magyarország” Nonprofit Kft. – CCH/Hungary Transparent_Food FP7 project

12. Measures for achieving confidence of consumers’, customers’ through openness and accountability on activities along the food chain By making information available on the verityof messages(claims, statements) on specific characteristics of products, processes, production environment which meet the valid needs of consumers, customers for facilitate their informed decisions Sound balance with confidentiality needs of food chain members Transparency in the food chain 12

13. Transparency is a complex issue with several approaches. Need for more harmonised definition and interpretation of principles and requirements identification and collection of successful practices developing findings and recommendations through regular consultations with a broad public of stakeholders from various countries in Europe To achieve progress and improvement. Why we need consultations with stakeholders on transparency? 13

14. Summary compendium on state-of-the-art on present knowledge on transparency Strategic Research Agenda for the identification of deficiencies, future research needs, and research priorities Best practice guide on transparency Blueprint information backbone scheme agreement on information exchange between system providers development of a European communication network facilitate interaction between existing and developing transparency initiatives Expected results (1)where NFTPs can contribute to the discussions and disseminate the results 14

15. General procedure for analysing transparency cases in different domains for successful practices GAP analysis results in matching quality standards with signal needs; recommendations for quality standard providers, Recommendations for different stakeholders such as the industry – particularly SMEs, policy makers, solution providers, standard providers, etc. Training material on recommended practices for transparency. Concise consumer information on potential use of transparency information web-based European Transparency Platform Expected results (2) 15

16. Web consultations (on-goingly, related to the main documents – Dec 2010, May 2011 ) Presentation of the results on an NFTP meeting of the ETP Food for Life Sept 2010 - distribution of actual information June 2011 - demonstration training to voluntary NFTP representatives Oct 2011 - presentation of final results Planned channels and events (1) 16

17. Developing of a core training workshop material and guidance to the representatives of the NTPs on using this material. May 2011 Organising national workshops for all stakeholders in their own (7) countries (all project participants) from June 2011 to Oct 2011 European workshop - presenting strategic research agenda June 2011 Stakeholder Implementation workshop Sept 2011 European Transparency Platform from June 2010 Planned channels and events (2) 17

18. Transparent_Food project is financed by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. Contract No.: FP7-KBBE-2009-245003 More info on the project at : www.transparentfood.eu 18

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