30 June 2003 Ankara EU 6FP France Turkey NCPs Meeting FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY Prof' Dr' Nuri Akkas T

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30 June 2003 Ankara EU 6FPFrance / Turkey
NCPs MeetingFOOD QUALITY AND SAFETYProf. Dr.
Nuri Akkas TUBITAK National Contact Point for
TP5

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Truth may hurt! BUT IT IS STILL THE TRUTH.

• Percentage of GNDP set aside for RTD
• Japan 2,98
• USA 2,70
• France 2,13
• EU 1,94
• EUCC 1,76
• Turkey 0,64

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• From the reports prepared by
• TUBITAKS AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FOOD
• TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH GRANT COMMITTEE
• Agriculture in Turkey
• Population involved
• 1927 81.6
• 1980 44.1
• 2000 30.7
• Contribution to GNDP
• 1927 44.0
• 2000 14.1

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• Agriculture in Turkey (contd)
• Contribution to exports
• 1960 80
• 2000 15
• Agricultural products
• Export / import surplus for 2000
• Turkey 0.4 billion USD
• France 10.0 billion USD
• (and France has a smaller cultivated land!)

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• Food Engineering in Turkey
• First FdE program started in 1975.
• There are now 28 FdE departments in Schools of
  Engineering, Agriculture etc.
• Every year, about 1300 new students are enrolled
  in these departments.
• Now there is a total of about 9000 food engineers
  in the country.
• There are about 30 000 food-related firms, most
  of them being SMEs.

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• Chamber of Food Engineers gidamo_at_gidamo.org.tr
• Founded in 1996
• Number of members 5000
• Enlightening public in FQS matters
• Contributing to improvement of food standards
• Providing continuing education for FdEs
• Contributing to program improvements at univs
• Establishing dialogue and partnership with sister
  chambers in EU countries

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• Agricultural Engineering in Turkey
• First AgrE program started in 1948 (Ank U).
• There are now 23 Schools of Agricultural
• Engineering (3 with no students yet).
• In 2001, 3600 new students were enrolled in
  these schools.
• In 2001, total number of students 20000
• In 2000, number of new graduates 3900

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• Chamber of Agricultural Engineers
• Founded in 1954
• Number of members 30000
• Contributing to improvement of agricultural
  products
• Providing continuing education for their members
• Providing support for the Ministry
• Establishing dialogue and partnership with sister
  chambers in EU countries

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MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL
AFFAIRSGENERAL DIRECTORATE OF AGRICULTURAL
RESEARCH

• SOME OF THE TARGETS
• to set up research priorities and to allocate
  resources,
• to disseminate information,
• to improve productivity and quality,
• to help improve the incomes of farmers,
• to protect the resources (including soil, water
  and genetic resources of plants and animals) for
  their sustainable use.

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MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL
AFFAIRSGENERAL DIRECTORATE OF AGRICULTURAL
RESEARCHwww.tagem.gov.tr

• DEPARTMENTS
• Horticultural research department
• Plant protection
• Field crops
• Livestock and fisheries
• Animal health
• Food and feedstuffs

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RTD SUPPORT IN FOOD RELATED PROJECTS
by TUBITAK Technology Monitoring and Evaluation
Board (TIDEB)
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GENERAL (AS OF 14.02.2002)
OF APPLICANTS 30 OF
PROJECTS 37 SUPPORTED 21 REJECTED
6 WITHDRAWN 3 COMPLETED 5
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DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO FIRM SIZE
Note Rejected and withdrawn projects not
included.
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DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO LOCALITY
Note Rejected and withdrawn projects not
included.
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OF FOOD RELATED PROJECTS IN TOTAL
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• Mission
• To contribute to the development of food industry
  to improve its technological ability and to
  strengthen the competitiveness by using science
  and technology
• FSTRI has 4 sub-units
• Food Processing Technologies and Nutrition
• Food Preservation and Packaging Technologies
• Food Microbiology and Biotechnology
• MEGALAB (Food Analysis)

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• Main working areas
• RTD studies
• Technical Consultancy Services
• Test Analysis Services
• Training Courses
• Field Studies

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CITRUS AND GREENHOUSE CROPS RESEARCH
INSTITUTEAntalya-TURKEY www.narser.gov.tr

• Departments
• Fruit Growing techniques
• Breeding studies
• Tissue culture
  laboratory
• Molecular biology
  laboratory
• Vegetable Growing techniques
• Breeding studies
• Ornamental crops
• Plant protection
• Economy and statistics

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ATATURK CENTRAL HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH
INSTITUTE YALOVAwww.arastirma-yalova.gov.tr 

• DEPARTMENTS
• Breeding and genetics
• Agrotechnology
• Plant protection
• Economics and statistics
• Postharvest physiology
• Processing technology

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Izmir www.aari.gov.tr 

• DEPARTMENTS
• Plant genetic resources
• Field crops
• Horticulture
• Animal husbandary

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THRACE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUE EDIRNE
www.ttae.gov.tr 

• DEPARTMENTS
• Breeding Genetics
• Agronomy
• Plant Diseases Pests
• Quality Improvement
• Wheat
• Barley
• Rice
• Sunflower

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Food Engineering Department
ITU

• 1990-1991 Admission of the first students
• Offfering undergraduate graduate programs
• Faculty 7 Professors
• 3 Assistant
  Professors
• 14 Research Assistants

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Food Engineering Department
Currently enrolled 150 students 30 students
admitted each year
STUDENTS
ITU
GRADUATE STUDENTS FACILITIES
Currently enrolled 57 students. Microbiology
Laboratory Food Quality Control Laboratory Food
Engineering Unit Operations L. Food Technology
Laboratory Sensory Analysis Laboratory
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METUs approach European Research Area (ERA)
Turkish Research Area (TAA) Extended National
and International Reseach Projects
(YUUP-GIDA)
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• MY APPOLOGIES FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO INCLUDE MANY
  OTHER INSTITUTIONS AND DEPARTMENTS IN THIS SHORT
  PRESENTATION.
• ONE FINAL REMARK FOLLOWS

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• FP6 TP5 Food Quality and Safety
• For year 2004
• 21 of the topics of the second call are already
  known.
• 13 are IPs or NoEs.
• 8 are STREPs or CAs.
• Therefore, joint proposal submission activities
  should start immediately.

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• MERCIBEAUCOUP
• TESEKKÜRLER
• ncpfood_at_tubitak.gov.tr
• nakkas_at_tubitak.gov.tr