Vision & Mission
Initiating the required food systems transformation in Europe.
Our Vision for 2050
By 2050, European citizens eat food that benefits personal and public health and environmental sustainability, coming from a food environment that supports responsible choices.
Integrated Understanding
An integrated understanding of consumer food choices at the biological and social levels leads to collaborative redesign of policy, industry and the food environment.
Sustainable Choices
Adequate, enjoyable and sustainable food offerings lead to food choices that reduce environmental footprints, non-communicable diseases and malnutrition across all socio-economic and cultural groups.
Future-Proof Supply
A growing European population is ensured a supply of healthy and sustainable food for the future.
Our Mission
FNH-RI drives transdisciplinary research by connecting research-, industry- and citizen-generated data and facilities on food and environment, initiating the required food systems transformation in Europe. FNH-RI:
Overcoming Fragmentation
Enables transdisciplinary research and food innovation by overcoming the lack of data validation and interoperability in food consumer science and nutrition.
Integrating Data
Generates standards and ontologies to integrate biological and social science food and nutrition data.
Training the Future
Supports and trains researchers to utilize and design emerging and novel digital technologies and data science tools.
Empowering Citizens
Enables the development of a pan-European Citizens Data Platform for research on eating habits, determinants and impacts.
Guiding Policy
Engages with stakeholder groups and policy-makers to feed knowledge to the food supply chain and preventative health domains, identifying critical and effective intervention points.
Steering Re-design
Steers the re-design of healthier and more sustainable food systems, supported by a new generation of researchers.