The first FNH-RI Consortium meeting of 2026 is behind us!
The FNH-RI Consortium, led by Prof. Ing. Adriana Kolesárová, PhD., Director of the AgroBioTech Research Centre, opens space for coordinated cooperation in the fields of food, nutrition, and health, and for connecting Slovakia to the European community of research infrastructures. 🌍 The consortium brings together partners from many European countries – the Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, […]
COMFOCUS newsletter
COMFOCUS project, funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme aims to progress the EU food consumer science community by integrate key European research infrastructures in the inherently multidisciplinary field of food consumer science, in order to promote their optimal use and joint development. Go to the COMFOCUS website to sign up for their newsletter […]
FNH-RI Newsletter Edition 4 (December 2020)
This is the fourth edition of the FNH-RI newsletter following the submission of the ESFRI proposal (PROSPECT) in September 2020. In this issue, the FNH-RI community will be informed about the activities and actions undertaken in preparation for the next (preparatory) phase of the proposal, which is set to begin in 2022. As part of […]
FNH-RI Newsletter Edition 3 (August 2020)
The European Commission has postponed the final submission date for the ESFRI Roadmap applications until September 2020. To keep our partners in the FNH-RI community, as well as everyone involved in the project, informed and connected during the interim period from May until 9 September 2020, an initiative has been taken to publish this newsletter. […]
FNH-RI and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic dominates our lives and work. That is also the case for the work on the Food, Nutrition and Health Research Infrastructure. One of the interesting discussions in the project team in the hub that works with the support of the nodes on the final version of the ESFRI proposal, concerns the question […]
FNH-RI Newsletter Edition 2 (June 2020)
The European Commission has postponed the final submission date for the ESFRI Roadmap applications until September 2020. To keep our partners of the FNH-RI community and everyone else involved in the project informed and connected during the interlude from May till the 9th of September 2020, the initiative has been taken to edit this newsletter […]
FNH-RI Newsletter Edition 1 (May 2020)
The European Commission has postponed the final submission date for the ESFRI Roadmap applications until September 2020. To keep our partners of the FNH-RI community and everyone else involved in the project informed and connected during this interlude from May till 9 September 2020, the initiative has been taken to edit this newsletter containing news […]
One infrastructure boosts European food and health research
Food and health are inextricably related to each other. We all know that we need a healthy and varied diet. We also know that too much fat, sugar or salt is bad for our health. It is up to science to devise solutions for problems related to food and health: which factors, such as habits, […]
European platform for nutrition and health a crucial tool for retail and food industry
Most people living in Europe consume too much salt, fat and sugar. This is leading to an increase in the number of people suffering from diet-related illnesses, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. To curb this trend, European consumers must be encouraged to eat more healthily – and it must be made […]
Closer collaboration between scientific disciplines leads to health benefits
The key to a long and healthy life is a balanced and healthy diet. Thanks to biomedical research – scientific research in the field of medicine – we are now well aware what a healthy diet needs to include as part of a healthy lifestyle. If every consumer followed the guidance of the Netherlands Nutrition […]
Building with bits and bytes in search of the core offering of a digital research infrastructure
The term ‘research infrastructure’ readily conjures up the image of large-scale research facilities that can be used by different studies. In other words: physical infrastructure for classical research. But we are now living in a digital era. Increasingly more research is being carried out with digital data. The emergence of big data, open data, and […]
A common platform for policy research as a solution to the obesity crisis in Europe
Europe is struggling with an obesity crisis. We have created a society in which consumers are surrounded on nearly all sides by sweet, salty, fatty and over-portioned temptations. While the opinion that consumers themselves should take responsibility for their own diet is valid to some extent, governments have been introducing policies that are fundamentally food-related, […]