Request for partners for creation of consortia under Call EUBA-EFSA-2023-ENREL-01: Selection of hosting sites and fellows for EFSA’s European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship (EU-FORA) Programme
(these requests have been addressed to the national Focal Points. Interested parties should not rely exclusively on the requests of this table but are encouraged to actively explore other options) |
Organisation offering a work programme (hosting site) | Organisation offering a fellow to be trained (fellow sending organisation) | Country | Title of the work programme or main area of interest for the fellow to be trained | Contact details |
Hellenic Agricultural Organization DIMITRA (ELGO-DIMITRA) - Institution of Technology of Agricultural Products / Dairy Research Department | | GREECE | Next Generation Microbiological Risk Assessment: Use of Whole Genome Sequencing to associate Listeria monocytogenes phenotypes with genome | Dr. Marios Mataragas (mmatster@elgo.gr, mmatster@gmail.com), efsa@efet.gr |
DTU | | Denmark | Development of a biomarker model for risk-benefit assessment | hansver@food.dtu.dk |
University of Castilla-La Mancha | | Spain | Characterization of risks related to the presence of mercury of mining origin in aquatic fauna | ope@uclm.es |
University of Castilla-La Mancha | | Spain | Biotechnological production of secondary metabolites in plants | ope@uclm.es |
Food Technology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Zaragoza | | Spain | Food risk assessment after different processing interventions (Pulsed Electric Fields, Ultrasounds, UV…) | j.martinez@unizar.es |
Functional food and toxicological research. Universidad de Sevilla | | Spain | Revalorisation of agro-industry byproducts and obtention of high-biological-value proteins using insects and fungi | Daniel Gutiérrez Praena
dgpraena@us.es |
RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) | | The Netherlands | Combining QMRA and epidemiology to improve estimates on attribution to food sources for pathogens | Eric Evers (eric.evers@rivm.nl) |
University of Alicante | | Spain | Aluminium Levels Assessment in Foods for Risk Management | Salvador E. Maestre Pérez (salvador.maestre@ua.es) |
Institute of Marine Research (IMR) | | Norway | Risk ranking of (emerging) contaminants present in the aquaculture production chain | annette.bernhard@imr.no |
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) | | Germany | Sustainability - Sustainability - Alternative Protein Sources | eufora-fellowship@bfr.bund.de |
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) | | Germany | Food allergens and allergy mechanisms | eufora-fellowship@bfr.bund.de |
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) | | Germany | Development of a qualitative risk assessment for meat from wild boar form a one-health perspective | eufora-fellowship@bfr.bund.de |
| | Italy | - application of NAM data to environmental cumulative risk assessment
- methods and tools for the use of NAM data in the Next Generation Ecological risk assessment | italianfocalpoint@sanita.it |
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) | | Germany | Evaluation of substances for food contact materials. | thomas.tietz@bfr.bund.de
eufora-fellowship@bfr.bund.de |
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | | Greece | Edible insects and risk assessment on chemical and microbial Contaminants | harpro@chem.uoa.gr |
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | | Greece | Development and validation of new Pesticide Risk Assessment scheme for Low risk pesticides | zvryzas@agro.auth.gr |
| Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences | Czechia | RA of Anisakis allergens in processed food on EU market | ivona.mladineo@paru.cas.cz |
University College Dublin | | Ireland | Food Reformulation: An assessment of different consumer communication strategies to influence consumer behaviour | fiona.lalor@ucd.ie |
Technical University of Cartagena | | Spain | Training in tools to develop quantitative microbial risk assessment integrating metagenomics to gain a comprehensive view of the impact of foodborne pathogenic microorganisms in the food chain. | Prof Pablo S. Fernandez (pablo.fernandez@upct.es), International office (chus.legaz@upct.es) |
Technical University of Cartagena | | Spain | Training in tools and modelling to develop Risk ranking and Quantitative microbial risk assessment along the food chain of products relevant to both countries | Dr. Alberto Garre (alberto.garre@upct.es), International office (chus.legaz@upct.es) |
| University of Ljubljana, Veterinary Faculty, Institute of Microbiology and Parasitology | Slovenia | DNA Extraction; Gel Electrophoresis; PCR; DNA Amplification; DNA Sequencing; Cloning; Molecular Genetics; Bacterial Cell Culture; DNA Sequence Analysis; Plasmid Cloning | Bojan Papić (bojan.papic@vf.uni-lj.si) |
Università degli Studi di Perugia - Food safety laboratory | | Italy | Ensuring Ethical production of beef: A Comprehensive Risk Assessment of Animal Welfare during Transportation and Slaughter Processes | Prof. Beniamino Cenci-Goga
beniamino.cencigoga@unipg.it |
Università degli Studi di Perugia - Food safety laboratory | | Italy | Development of a Quantitative Risk Assessment model for hepatitis E (HEV) | Prof. Beniamino Cenci-Goga
beniamino.cencigoga@unipg.it |
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) | | Germany | Metabolism-disrupting substances - preparation of a detailedreview paper and use of NAMs for their detection | eufora-fellowship@bfr.bund.de |
National Institute of Biology (NIB) | | Slovenia | In vitro toxicological characterisation of emerging contaminants (e.g. food additives, food contact materials, chemicals) present in food using New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) | bojana.zegura@nib.si |
National Institute of Biology (NIB) | | Slovenia | Methods and tools for early detection of insect pests in target crops, based on vibrational and chemical communication signals | natasa.stritih-peljhan@nib.si; alenka.zunic-kosi@nib.si |
Prof. Waclaw Dabrowski Institute of Agriculture and Food Biotechnology – State Research Institute | | Poland | Assessment of long- and short-term risk connected with consumption of caffeine-rich beverages. | Łukasz Woźniak Ph.D.
efsa@ibprs.pl |
