COMFOCUS

Bringing together and integrating the field of food consumer science in Europe and beyond.

Start date

01 March 2021

End date

28 February 2025

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Overview

COMFOCUS will enable the food consumer science community to make the next steps to become the data-driven science that can support evidence-based public food policies and private strategies, as well as the academic research community more adequately.

Aims and objectives

To integrate key European research infrastructures in the inherently multidisciplinary field of food consumer science, in order to promote their optimal use and joint development by:

  • Providing the academic and private research community with easy virtual and transnational access to high quality services and resources.
  • Harmonising and professionalising the European food consumer science community (harmonised data-rich science)

Increasing the business and policy relevance of food consumer science insights, by building on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Inter-operable & Re-usable) and Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) data principles.

Funding amount

€ 4,997,142.31

Funder

European Union

Team

Wageningen Research, Wageningen University, Aarhus University, University of Surrey, Jozef Stephan Institute, Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovacao, Javier de la Cueva & Asociados, Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology, University of Bologna, Nofima, University of Trento, Slovak University of Agriculture, University of Turku, Noldus Information Technology BV

Outputs

Deliverable 4.1: Guideline for Harmonisation of measures and protocols linking to other infrastructure and data bases

Deliverable 8.1: Literature review on the Ethical, Social and Legal Issues (ELSI) relevant to COMFOCUS: A conceptual framework for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)

Presentation on COMFOCUS at METROFOOD final conference. Workshop: “Measuring tools for Food Consumer Science” (May 19, 2022)

Presentation of COMFOCUS at the IV National Congress of the Spanish Association of Sensory Analysis Professionals (June 6, 2022)

Stakeholders Forum at the COMFOCUS Face-to-face Meeting in the Hague, Netherlands (June 13, 2022)

Presentation of COMFOCUS at Summer School: “Farm to Fork: sustainable production & consumption in public canteens" EIT food (September 12, 2022)

Presentation of COMFOCUS at Eurosense 2022 “A sense of earth” (September 16, 2022)

Delivery of citizen’s engagement workshops in 5 European countries (December 2022 to January 2023)

Deliverable 4.5: Guideline for harmonisation of measures and protocols for consumers as agents in the food system

Research themes

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