Conclusions

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Conclusions

• 4. ESC meeting at Scheveningen, The Netherlands
• 28-29 September 2006
• The meeting where the first transnational call of
  SAFEFOODERA was (almost) announced

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• 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

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• 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!!!

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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

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• 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

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New Working groups New Working groups 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
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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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.

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• 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)

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• 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

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

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Coming together is a beginning. Keeping
together is progress. Working together is
success
Henry Ford