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CEI Consultation on the European Technology
Platform Food for Life Optimising regional
benefit
Dr Kitti Németh VUP Food Research Institute,
Bratislava, Slovakia. nemeth_at_vup.sk
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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)

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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 gt 70 of the EUs 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.
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ETP Food for Life Vision
An effective integration of strategically-focussed
, trans-national, 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.
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European Technology Platform Food for Life
WG Horizontal Activities optimising the impact
of the ETP
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• 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 ETPs 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• Date and Venue
• 20-21 September 2006, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 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 policy- makers.

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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
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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, ST),
  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!