Razvan Anistoroaei, PhD. F3: Agri-Food Chain DG Research and Innovation

62nd meeting of the EFSA advisory Forum: Parma, 9 December 2016

Research priorities Horizon 2020

AGENDA

• HORIZON2020

• Work Programme 2016-2017 • FOOD2030

Quick: Basis about Horizon 2020

Three pillars

Excellent science

Industrial leadership

Societal challenges

29.7 billion

24.4 billion

17 billion

Societal challenges

SC1 Health, demographic change and wellbeing

7 472

SC2 Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the Bioeconomy

3 851

SC3 Secure, clean and efficient energy * 5 931

SC4 Smart, green and integrated transport 6 339

SC5 Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

3 081

SC6 Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies

1 310

SC7 Secure societies 1 695

Science with and for society 462

Spreading excellence and widening participation

816

Four Calls in Societal Challenge 2

Sustainable food security

Blue Growth

Rural Renaissance

Bio-based innovation

for sustainable goods and services

Topic distribution and budget distribution between calls

48

13

16

6

10

6

Topics (including other contributions)

SFS

BG

RUR

BB

Others SC2

Other parts

431.5

129

128

27

32

130

Budget (M€) (including other contributions)

SFS

BG

RUR

BB

Others SC2

Other parts

Total: 99 topics (93 within SC2 WP)

Total: 877,5 m€ (747,5 m€ from SC2)

Horizon 2020 work programme :

Proposing solutions to global challenges

• Foster resilient and resource efficient primary production and industry as

well as sustainable and healthy consumption. Feed 9 billion people by 2050 by

improving farming and food systems' capacity to sustainably supply sufficient and

healthy food

• Unlock the potential of seas and oceans which cover 70% of the Earth's

surface and host 50% of known species

• Raise the sustainable growth potential of rural areas and their ability to

cope with demographic, climatic and economic change while fostering innovation

and business opportunities for rural and coastal areas through new territorial

approaches and business models

• Re-industrialise Europe through new bio-based value-chains, securing

sustainable biomass

Sustainable Food Security: 6 areas

Sustainable Food Security

EU-China Flagship

Resilient, resource efficient value chains

Environment/ Climate-smart

primary production

Competitive food industry

Healthy and safe foods and diets

EU-Africa Partnership

Food safety and related domains topics in

the last two WP of H2020 (14-15 & 16-17)

What has already been addressed in 2014,2015 and 2016?

• Improving the control of infectious epidemics and foodborne

outbreaks through rapid identification of pathogens

• Tackling losses from terrestrial animal diseases

• Tackling disease related challenges and threats faced by European

farmed aquatic animals

• Assessing the health risks of combined human exposure to multiple

food-related toxic substances

• Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing

What has already been addressed in 2014,2015 and 2016?

• Tackling malnutrition in the elderly

• Biomarkers for nutrition and health

• Sustainable livestock production

• Biological contamination of crops and the food chain

• Coordination action in support of the implementation by

participating States of a Joint

• Programming Initiative on ‘A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life’

2016

• The European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (CO-FUND EJP)

• Spotlight on critical outbreak of pests: the case of Xylella fastidiosa

(RIA)

• Support for international research on animal health (CSA)

• Understanding host-pathogen-environment interactions (livestock)

(RIA)

• The impact of consumer practices in food safety: risks and mitigation

strategies (RIA)

• Increase overall transparency of processed agri-food products (RIA)

• Reinforcing international cooperation on sustainable aquaculture production with countries from South-East Asia (CSA)

2017

2017

1. Research and approaches for emerging diseases in plants and terrestrial livestock (RIA)

2. Validation of diagnostic tools for animal and plant health (IA)

3. Innovations in plant protection (IA)

4. Innovative solutions for sustainable food packaging (IA)

5. Co-fund on "One Health" (zoonoses – emerging threats) (CO-FUND EJP)

6. Sweeteners and sweetness enhancers (RIA)

7. Alternative production systems to address anti-microbial drug usage, animal welfare and the impact on health (RIA)

8. Innovative sustainable solutions for improving the safety and dietary properties of seafood (IA)

9. Bee health and sustainable pollination (RIA)

10. Support to the development and implementation of FOOD 2030 - a European

research and innovation policy framework for food and nutrition security

SFS-10-2017: Research and approaches for emerging diseases and pests

in plants and terrestrial livestock (RIA)

Some highlights:

• address as far as possible all components of management in particular with regard to

epidemiology (e.g. source, transmissibility, susceptible species), host-pathogen

interactions, diagnostics, means of prevention and control, as well as risk management

• understand drivers for pest/disease emergence

• improved management of pests/diseases by the farming and forestry sectors

• development of tools for the prevention, detection and diagnosis, of pests/diseases

• improved food quality and food safety

• implementation of EU plant and animal health policies.

SFS-13-2017: Validation of diagnostic tools for animal and

plant health (IA)

Some highlights:

• Harmonise and validate (including through ring trials) existing and new

protocols for the detection and quantification of pathogens and other factors of concern

for the health of plants and terrestrial animals, and correlates of infection/immunity.

• Bringing to the market of end-products, such as swift, portable tools for field-testing

by veterinarians, practitioners and business operators.

SFS-17-2017: Innovations in plant protection (RIA)

Some highlights:

• testing of new products, tools and strategies for integrated pest and disease

management to reduce the use of pesticides in the fruit and vegetable sectors

(including herbs and medical plants)

• introduce novel products with increased specificity and improved environmental

performance

• decrease residue concentrations in fruit and vegetables;

• increase food safety and contribute to human health (consumers and applicators);

• reduce pesticide residues in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, drinking water and

the food chain.

• This is expected to increase consumer trust and fruit and vegetable

consumption.

Pictures © Cows: European Commisssion – Landscape: Thinkstock

SFS-35-2017: Innovative solutions for sustainable food

packaging (IA)

Some highlights:

• reduce the environmental footprint of packaging material, increasing the shelf-life

of food and developing food spoilage indicators, and reducing the need for chemical

preservatives while maintaining the nutritional and sensorial properties

• reduced waste in both food and packaging materials, and its negative impacts on

the environment (e.g. resource utilisation, greenhouse gas emissions, pollution)

• strengthening the European food value chain through continued support to product

quality, contributing to consumer trust and increased consumption

• support for the transition from a linear to a circular economy.

SFS-36-2017: Co-fund on "One Health" (zoonoses – emerging

threats) COFUND (EJP)

Some highlights:

• to better understand processes triggering and propagating zoonoses including anti-microbial

resistance, their routing in the animal–human-environment triangle and their impact.

• the main emphasis on food-borne microbial infections and intoxications, including natural toxins

and the risks associated with domesticated and wild animal reservoirs and their exposure routes

towards human infection

• related emerging threats such as antimicrobial resistance will be addressed. In order to

enhance the 'one health' approach to the food chain, important non zoonotic food-borne pathogens

transmitted via the food chain will also be considered.

• to construct a sustainable framework for an integrated community of research groups including

reference laboratories in the fields of life sciences, medicine, veterinary

medicine, animal sciences, food sciences and environmental sciences

SFS-40-2017: Sweeteners and sweetness enhancers (IA)

Some highlights:

• focus on health, obesity and safety aspects

• consider the consumer perceptions and preferences giving proper consideration to

the underlying physiological, psychological and socio-economic drivers

• the toxicological impact of relevant doses, combined effects and the prolonged

use of S&SEs are still unknown and the health-related aspects need further

investigation

• promote healthy diets and contribute to combating obesity

while improving sustainable food security in the EU

• evidence-based policy inputs on health, environmental

and food safety issues.

SFS-46-2017: Alternative production system to address anti-microbial drug

usage, animal welfare and the impact on health (RIA)

Some highlights:

• links between livestock welfare and health, the underlying factors, the related use

of anti-microbial drugs and the subsequent presence of residues in products and their

spread into the environment.

• welfare-friendly production systems (housing, equipment, technology) to improve

farm animal immunity, health and welfare effectively

• reduced veterinary drug use at farm level and reduced residue in animal products

in order to improve food safety and improved biosecurity

at farm level

BG-08-2017: Innovative sustainable solutions for improving the safety and

dietary properties of seafood (IA)

Some highlights:

• mitigate production hazards and environmental damage and secure the economic

viability

• Ensure that eco-innovative solutions for the sustainable production and processing

of marine and aquaculture-derived food products and nutrients as a result of greater

user acceptance

• Improve the competitiveness of the EU seafood sector, and increase opportunities

for growth, diversification and job creation for the sector in general and SMEs in

particular.

• Benefit consumers by allowing them to make better-informed seafood choices.

• Increase the availability of healthier, safer and high quality seafood,

which will improve consumers' diet and health.

SFS-16-2017: Bee health and sustainable pollination (RIA)

Some highlights:

• EFSA and EURL for bee health are addressing more focused aspects of a holistic

risk assessment of multiple stressors in honeybees in the MUST-B project.

• Filling gaps of knowledge on hazards, focusing mainly on (chronic and sub) lethal

effects of mixtures of chemicals on both healthy and infected bees at population and/or

colony levels, while also taking into account the aspect of bee nutrition and its effect on

bee health.

• Provide science- based protocols for improvement of bee regulatory testing schemes.

Call deadlines

2017

CALLS Deadlines Information to

applicants

Grant

Agreements

SFS,

BG,

RUR,

BB

two-stage submission

(RIA, IA)

1st stage 14 Feb 2017

2nd stage 13 Sept 2017

single stage submission

(CSA, ERA Net) Single stage 14 Feb 2017

BUDGET 2017 : EUR 375 million (SFS 251 M€ - BG 47 M€ .m – RUR 62 M€ BB 15 M€)

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CONSULTATION

CONSULTATION CONSULTATIONS

CONSULTATION

• Overcome low consumer trust: support Europeans in the transition towards a smart

food system - inclusive and trusted

• Create consumer valued food for healthier nutrition: enable individuals to make

informed and affordable personal nutrition choices

• Build a consumer-centric connected food system: develop a digital food supply

network with consumers and industry as equal partners.

• Enhance sustainability: develop solutions to transform the traditional ‘produce-use-

dispose’ model into a circular bio-economy.

• Educate to engage, innovate and advance: Provide ‘food system’ skills for students,

entrepreneurs and professionals

• Catalyse food entrepreneurship and innovation: foster innovation at all stages of

business creation.

EIT Food's six strategic objectives

• Leuven – CLC West (Belgium, France, Switzerland)

• London – CLC North-West (UK, Ireland, Iceland)

• Madrid – CLC South (Spain, Italy, Israel)

• Munich – CLC Central (Germany, The Netherlands)

• Warsaw – CLC North-East (Poland, Finland)

EIT Food Innovation Hubs (Co-location Centres)

Call for Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) proposals As established in the EIT’s Strategic Innovation Agenda and by Horizon 2020 EIT Food: Food4Future - Sustainable Supply Chain from Resources to Consumers

FOOD 2030

Research and Innovation for

Future-proofing our Nutrition and Food Systems

The Perfect Storm

FOOD 2030 Priorities

=> Nutrition: hunger & malnutrition, food safety & diet-

related illnesses, and helping citizens adopt sustainable diets and

healthy lives – e.g. EJP One Health

Climate: Building a climate and global change-resilient food

system – e.g. PRIMA, EU/Africa

=> Sustainability: Implementing sustainability & circular economy

principles across the whole food system – e.g. food waste,

sustainable and resource-efficient food production

=> Innovation: market-creating innovation & investment, while

empowering communities – e.g. FOOD PPP, FOOD KIC, regions

and Agri-food Smart Specialisation, food in cities, synergies

between funds (H2020, EFSI, RDF, etc.)

The Food System

Sustainable

Responsible

Resilient

Competitive

Diverse

Inclusive

Good soil, water, land & biodiversity

Connecting land & sea

Food & Feed: trade, relations, culture, jobs, etc

Such a complex system requires a “systems approach”

Opportunities for R&I Breakthroughs

THANK YOU

Razvan Anistoroaei, PhD. F3: Agri-Food Chain DG Research and Innovation

LinkTADs session: Coordinating veterinary research between EU and China

Madrid, 29 September 2016

2018-2020