Common use of Spreading of Excellence Activities (SA Clause in Contracts

Spreading of Excellence Activities (SA. EuroFIR recognises the value of its future results and its responsibilities to disseminate these to various stakeholders, ranging from colleague scientists and industry R&D to healthcare professionals and the consumer organisations. Therefore, a central part of EuroFIR’s mission is to establish an ‘open’ community of stakeholders who share the vision of European research integration in this field in order to promote pan-European research excellence, and more rapid and far reaching exploitation of research output. In parallel to the integration and research activities in the network, and from their results, EuroFIR will establish information exchange including a large use of electronic communication through the IT software platform described in IA1.7. The network will bring knowledge and training capabilities to: • Undergraduates and postgraduates by education and training for the harmonisation for the development, management and use of food composition databases to all people in all regions of Europe, whether they are members of the network or not. • Scientists and professionals of the network and those outside. • The public, policy makers and regulatory authorities by increasing awareness of food composition and public health nutrition, and by providing evidence-based advice to consumers. Production and implementation of evidence-based guidelines is essential. • Agro-food and retail industry throughout Europe in the use and applications of the Food Information Resource. In particular, training researchers and other key staff, is indispensable to the development and sustainability of European excellence in this field. Thus, training is an essential component of spreading of excellence. The training activities of the network seek to promote knowledge and skills for best practice in the application of food composition data covering nutrients and bioactive compounds in the fields of nutrition and public health throughout Europe. These activities will bring a high level of integration to existing and new training activities in this field. Specific activities related to the spreading of excellence have been described in four interconnected, flexible WPs, which may change in shape, size and content as the network progresses beyond the first year, depending of the success of the activities encompassed within these WPs and the changing needs of the network: • Training and education of young scientists and postgraduates (SA3.1) • Dissemination and communication (SA3.2) • Income generation and durability (SA3.3) • Gender activities (SA3.4)

Spreading of Excellence Activities (SA. EuroFIR recognises the value of its future results and its responsibilities to disseminate these to various stakeholders, ranging from colleague scientists and industry R&D to healthcare professionals and the consumer organisations. Therefore, a central part of EuroFIR’s mission is to establish an ‘open’ community of stakeholders who share the vision of European research integration in this field in order to promote pan-pan- European research excellence, and more rapid and far reaching exploitation of research output. In parallel to the integration and research activities in the network, and from their results, EuroFIR will establish information exchange including a large use of electronic communication through the IT software platform described in IA1.7IA1.1. The network will bring knowledge and training capabilities to: • Undergraduates and postgraduates by education and training for the harmonisation for the development, management and use of food composition databases to all people in all regions of Europe, whether they are members of the network or not. • Scientists and professionals of the network and those outside. • The public, policy makers and regulatory authorities by increasing awareness of food composition and public health nutrition, and by providing evidence-based advice to consumers. Production and implementation of evidence-based guidelines is essential. • Agro-food and retail industry throughout Europe in the use and applications of the Food Information Resource. In particular, training researchers and other key staff, is indispensable to the development and sustainability of European excellence in this field. Thus, training is an essential component of spreading of excellence. The training activities of the network seek to promote knowledge and skills for best practice in the application of food composition data covering nutrients and bioactive compounds in the fields of nutrition and public health throughout Europe. These activities will bring a high level of integration to existing and new training activities in this field. Specific activities related to the spreading of excellence have been described in four interconnected, flexible WPs, which may change in shape, size and content as the network progresses beyond the first year18 months, depending of the success of the activities encompassed within these WPs and the changing needs of the network: • Training and education of young scientists and postgraduates (SA3.1) • Dissemination and communication (SA3.2) • Income generation Commercialisation and durability (SA3.3) • Gender activities (SA3.4)