Conclusions

4. ESC meeting at Scheveningen, The Netherlands

28-29 September 2006

The meeting where the first transnational call of SAFEFOODERA was (almost) announced

Pilot Calls:

• Mads presented the status of the calls• Some members of ESC still had some clearifying

questions • The funders group had a short discussion after the end of

the ESC meeting of the first day

Pilot Calls: Follow up after the meeting:

• Mads will make an updated version of the documents which will be sent to the funders group at the end of Friday 29 September

• The deadline for comments from members of the funders group will be Tuesday 3 October

• NICe will announce the calls on the homepage of SAFEFOODERA not later than 6 October

• Congratulations to every participant for finalizing this major achievement of SAFEFOODERA!!!

WP5: Workshop on lessions learned about Pilot

calls (Philippe)

• Four active working groups• Philippe collected and presented the key information

from the work• The four groups agreed on many issues, but it also

seemed that there is room for further discussions on some issues

WP5: Workshop on lessions learned about Pilot calls (Philippe)

Follow up after the ESC-meeting:

• Philippe refines the preliminary report presented to the ESC• The report will be distributed to all ESC-members• The ESC-members will have the possibility to propose changes• Philippe writes a short final report• The report is an important learning lesson and will be an important

input to the working group on a possible second call (see a later slide)

• The report could be useful for other ERA-Nets

WP4 Joint activities (Alisdair)

•Update of information about the WP•Information about the workshop in Bonn 30-31 October 2006•Vision: Feasibility of establishing a forum for food safety research ideas •24 participants at present: More ERA-Net partners and organizations in your countries are urged to register ASAP. More focus on:

• The objective•Outcome of the workshop

WP6 Information exchange (Ola)

• Status of the WP presented to ESC• Meetings with different stakeholders will be organized (Five

meetings: see time schedule on a later slide)• SAFEFOODERA-partners should participate. Remember to

prioritize your participation• A preliminary program for the stakeholder meetings were

presented

WP1 Management framework (Oddur)

• Proposal for the redistribution of the budget• PMG makes a proposal to ESC: Written procedure• Work groups for the future planning: Proposal for

members. • The groups propose mandates which are to be approved

by PMG• ESC will be innformed about the mandate

New Working groups

Stakeholder Expansion Best practice for Calls

Oddur leader Hartmut leader Philippe leader

Ola Secretary Sabine Secretary Monica Secretary

Alisdair Hilde Mads

Hartmut Ola Jos

Philippe Gundega Leda

Harmen Guner Johs

Expansion of SAFEFOODERA (Hartmut)

ESC have already decided (Limassol):

•To invite Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Check Republik, Bulgaria and Rumenia to become observers in SAFEFOODERA on their own cost with the view to establishing a case for full membership as soon as possible, ideally (limassol) not later than 12 months from today.•Establish a new WP within the existing WP4 and WP6•Appoint Hartmut Waldner to coordinate the new WP and as anew member of PMG•Invite other EU-countries not beeing member of SAFEFOODERA to become observers in SAFEFOODERA on their own cost • The project coordinator and Hartmut Waldner is asked to investigate further the posibility to include Third countries into SAFEFOODERA.

Extension of SAFEFOODERA (Hartmut)

Decision of ESC at Scheveningen:

• Latvia, Lithuania, Brazil, Ireland and Croatia (with eligble organizations) are invited to finalize the process to become partners

• Membership will be confirmed by the ESC on a written procedure when the necessary documentation has been provided

• SAFEFOODERA will be able to cover travel expenses for the new partners according to the ERA-Net work programme rules

Extension of SAFEFOODERA (Hartmut)

Future work:

• Prepare an information package for the new partners• Assisting new partners with all paperwork

– Incl. justification • New partners have to make an overview on their national

food safety research programmes/projects • New partners are invited to present new ideas for joint

activities

Extension of SAFEFOODERA (Hartmut)

Follow up after the ESC-meeting:

• Hartmut refines the preliminary report presented to the ESC

• The report will be distributed to all ESC-members• The ESC-members will have the possibility to propose

changes• Hartmut writes a short final report• The report will be an important input to the working

group on the extension

Future expansion ?

•Suggestion to go ahead with the process according to the Limassol decision to include new countries or international organisations (EFSA, WHO, FAO ……)•From this group a new batch (batches) could emerge.•Countries who do not reply to invitations several times will be left out.

Future meetings of ESC and PMG:

ESC:•Bilbao, The Basque Country, 20-21September or 27-28 September 2007•Reykjavik, Iceland, August 2008

PMG:•Copenhagen 12 January 2007 (Minutes of PMG-meetings can be found on our homepage under My work WP1)

Other meetings, seminars and workshops:

Workshop on Joint Activities in Bonn 30-31 October 2006

Stakeholder meetings:•The Scientific community, Lisbon 23-24 November 2006•Food industry, Copenhagen 14-15 December 2006•Retail and food service, January 2007•Consumers, February 2007•EU Commision and EFSA, March 2007

Acknowledgements:

•The Dutch organizers and partner team•Oddur/Ola team •NICe•PMG•ESC

““Coming together Coming together is a beginning. is a beginning.

Keeping together Keeping together is progress. is progress.

Working together Working together is success” is success”

““Coming together Coming together is a beginning. is a beginning.

Keeping together Keeping together is progress. is progress.

Working together Working together is success” is success”

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