Transcript CEI Consultation on the European Technology Platform Food for Life: Optimising regional benefit Dr Kitti Németh VUP Food Research Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia. [email protected].

CEI Consultation on the
European Technology
Platform Food for Life:
Optimising regional benefit
Dr Kitti Németh
VUP Food Research Institute, Bratislava,
Slovakia.
[email protected]
European Technology
Platforms:
Central Concept
A new instrument
to strengthen the European-wide innovation process
across the food chain.
A framework to unite stakeholders around:
• a common “VISION” for the technology concerned
• a mobilisation of CRITICAL MASS of Research & Innovation
• a defined, agreed STRATEGIC RESEARCH AGENDA (SRA)
European Agro-Food Industry
 Largest manufacturing sector in EU
 Turnover EU25 was €850 billion in 2005
 Total exports €45 billion, trade surplus of €5.8 billion in
2005
 Transforms > 70% of the EU’s agricultural raw materials
 Major employer with 4.1 million workers
 61.3 % of workforce in SMEs
 Limited growth, 1.9% in 2003.
The ETP Food for Life seeks to promote effective innovation
across the food chain.
ETP Food for Life
Vision
An effective integration of strategically-focussed, transnational, concerted research in the nutritional-, food- and
consumer sciences and food chain management will deliver
innovative, novel and improved food products for, and to,
national, regional and global markets in line with consumer
needs and expectations.
Such targeted activities will support a successful and
competitive pan-European agro-food industry having global
business leadership securely based on economic growth,
technology transfer, sustainable food production and
consumer confidence.
European Technology Platform Food for Life
Communication,
Training &
Technology Transfer
Food
Food &
Quality &
Health
Manufacturing
Food &
Consumer
+ WG Horizontal Activities
optimising the impact of the ETP
Food Safety
-
Food Chain Management
Sustainable
Food Production
Central/Eastern Europe Perspective
• This is a European Technology Platform, and so must be
flexible enough to address the needs and situations of all
regions of Europe.
• It needs the support and commitment of all stakeholders
in all regions of Europe.
• The ETP needs expert input of stakeholders in the
countries of Central and Eastern Europe, so that this
region, its industries, its researchers and its citizens can
gain the maximum benefit from the ETP’s programme of
activities.
• A Stakeholders’ Strategic Research Agenda (SSRA) has
been developed which will feed into the detailed Work
Programme of FP7 [2007-2013] and form the basis of
pan-European consultation.
CEI Co-operation Activity.
Ref. No. 1202.018-06
Will provide a regional consultation enabling the stakeholder
representatives from CEI countries to:
 discuss the key themes of the Stakeholders’ SRA [Food
and Health; Food Quality and Manufacturing; Food and
Consumer; Food Safety; Sustainable Food Production, Chain
Management and Communication, Training and Technology
Transfer], http://etp.ciaa.be ,
 provide feedback to be included in the finalised SRA,
and
 initiate durable and mutually-supportive links between
national stakeholders and the ETP
Background
At the CEI Conference of Ministers of Agriculture, Slovakia
[November 2005]:
 a preliminary report on the ETP Food for Life was presented and
discussed within the WG on Food,
 a positive response was given by the audience,
 a general discussion was held to consider how the interests of CEI
countries might best be included in the developing plan for the ETP
Co-funding for the Regional Consultation
Partner
% of Budget
ETP Food for Life
50
CEI
40
VUP
10
Date and Venue
20-21 September 2006, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Participants
2 x 10 delegates from CEI non-EU countries
2 x 7 delegates from CEI EU countries
4 or 5 delegates from the Slovak Republic
10 delegates from international bodies (CEI, ETP, EuCheMS)
Target audience
Representatives of agriculture/food/science and technology/
agro-food sectors [industry, researchers, regulators,
consumer organisations, national funding bodies and policymakers].
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CEI Funding Unit
Cooperating in a wider Europe
www.ceinet.org
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Incentive after 2004 EU Enlargement
• Since 1th May 2004, the number of CEI countries
being also EU members increased: out of 17 CEI
countries, 7 are now EU members
• The CEI is seen as a as facilitator of transnational
and interregional cooperation between EU countries
and third countries in Eastern and South-Eastern
Europe
• In addition to the policy dialogue, new tools and
instruments are necessary to foster this
cooperation
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Incentive after 2004 EU Enlargement
The Funding Unit was created in 2004 in order to
evaluate the possibilities of attracting EU funding for
CEI projects
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CEI Funding Unit Objectives and Tasks
• Promoting CEI participation in EU
projects
• Supporting non EU country participation
• Connecting partner institutions from
Central and Eastern Europe
• Information on EU programmes
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Participation in EU projects
• Facilitating links with authorities from Central and
Eastern Europe
• Know-how transfer, exchange of experiences
• Disseminating project activities, contacts and
results throughout the wide territory of CEI
• Promoting horizontally institutional links between
those countries not directly involved in the project
• Promoting vertically links between regional/local
and government authorities
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Some figures on projects
Submitted Projects
21
Approved Projects
9
Sectors concerned
Transport, spatial development,
information society technologies,
SMEs, Lisbon Strategy, energy,
civil protection, culture
Total value of submitted 15, 7 m EUR
projects
Total value
projects
of
approved 8.5 m EUR
(54% success rate)
CEI involvement in the More than 665.000 EUR
approved projects
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The CEI as project partner: an added value
The CEI as an intergovernmental organisation has specific
characteristics that constitute an added value:
• Flexibility of the CEI, which is able to adapt and interpret its
roles: projects in various sectors, various roles of the CEI
• Availability of instruments of co-operation (Cooperation Fund,
Funding Unit, CEI Networks) at the disposal of the Member
States to utilize it in the best way they find appropriate
• Networks, not only new ones (University, S&T), but networks
of people such as Working Groups for example, Network is a
key word for co-operation
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The CEI as project partner: an added value
• Within projects at EU level prepared and carried out by a
Consortium of Partners, the CEI offers an institutional
framework ideal for comprehensive initiatives involving EU
and non EU countries interesting
• The CEI is an area with its specific problems where actions
can better be performed jointly
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CEI experience in multilateral cooperation for
successfully promoting transnational projects in the CEI
region!