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 |
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | | Bulgaria | Evaluation of alternative plant-based pesticides for biological activity on non-target organisms | assoc. prof. Teodora Todorova, PhD, tedi_todorova@yahoo.com; Teodora.todorova@iber.bas.bg |
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | | Bulgaria | Genotoxicological assessment of various contaminants (heavy metals, pesticides, etc.) – cell survival, mutations, DNA double-strand breaks, etc. | assoc. prof. Teodora Todorova, PhD, tedi_todorova@yahoo.com; Teodora.todorova@iber.bas.bg |
Αgricultural University of Athens | | Greece | Quality and nutritional value assessment of farmed fish as a function of diet composition and risk assessment on specific components using representative consumption data | Assistant Professor Emmanuella Magriplis, emagriplis@aua.gr |
Αgricultural University of Athens | | Greece | Predictive modelling: application of probabilistic modelling for describing the stochastic responses of injured or VBNC individual cells following exposure to multiple food related stresses | Prof. Panagiotis N. Skandamis: pskan@aua.gr |
Sciensano, BELGIUM | | Belgium | Analysis of impurities (toxic elements) in a wide range of food additives to support risk assessment | Karlien.Cheyns@sciensano.be |
Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC) | | Spain | Experimental studies of pesticides subjected to drinking water treatment and enviromental risk assessment | Pilar Sandin España & Elena Alonso Prados
sandin@inia.csic.es
aprados@inia.csic.es |
Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC) | | Spain | Development and validation of new Pesticide Risk Assessment scheme for botanical plant protection products and microorganisms | José Luis Alonso Prados
prados@inia.csic.es |
| University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Health Sciences | Slovenia | Risk assessment on chemical and microbial contaminants (insects) | Maja Bensa
maja.bensa@zf.uni-lj.si |
Università di Bologna | | Italy | Risk assessment for new ingredients from by-waste products | alessandro.zambon2@unibo.it |
Università di Bologna | | Italy | Development of microtechnologies for in-vitro toxicological studies | alessandro.zambon2@unibo.it |
National Kapodistrian University of Athens | | Greece | Fungal mycotoxins and emerging mycotoxins: revisiting risk assessment practices based on new analytical methods (e.g., LC-MS/MS) | Vasilis Valdramidis (valdram@uoa.gr)
Marilena Dasenaki (mdasenaki@chem.uoa.gr)
Charalampos Proestos (harpro@chem.uoa.gr) |
Agro-Environmental and Water Econonomics Research Institute- University of the Balearic Islands INAGEA-UIB. | | Spain | Monitoring methods for risk assesment of emerging and priority plant pest and vectors of animal diseases. | Professor Miguel Angel Miranda. ma.miranda@uib.es |
French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) | | France | Long-term oral toxicological reference values for PFASs (alone or in mixtures): methodology, toxicological profile, proposition | Dominique Brunet (dominique.brunet@anses.fr), Aurélie Mathieu (Aurelie.mathieu@anses.fr), pointfocal@anses.fr |
Office for Risk Assessment and Reasearch, The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority | | The Netherlands | Deterministic and probabilistic risk assessment of chemicals in Dutch seaweed. | NVWAEFSAFocalPoint@nvwa.nl |
National Food and Veterinary Risk Assessment Institute | | LITHUANIA | Identification of genetic elements and reference genes of genetically modified plants by multiplex real-time PCR, Identification of avian influenza type A virus and subtypes by real-time reverse transcription PCR.
Determination of subtypes H5 and H7 pathogenicity by Sanger sequencing method | Dr. Simona Pilevičienė, simona.pileviciene@nmvrvi.lt |
International Hellenic University (IHU) | | Greece | Microbiological Risks Associated to Bivalve Mollusks: Microbiome and Antimicrobial Resistance using Next Generation Sequencing | Eleni Likotrafiti, likotraf@ihu.gr |
Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA), center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). | | Spain | Mitigate foodborne viral contamination risk | Walter Randazzo (wrandazzo@iata.csic.es); Dolores Rodrigo Aliaga (lolesra@iata.csic.es); Antonio Martínez (amartinez@iata.csic.es) |
CIIMAR | | PORTUGAL | Risk assessment of microbiological hazards subject to different inactivation methods / Zoonotic parasites (Anisakis spp.) | Maria João Santos (mjsantos@fc.up.pt) |
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research of the Spanish National Research Council (IDAEA-CSIC) | | Spain | Advanced high resolution analytical methodologies applied for monitoring of chemical mixtures and risk assessment in fishery products intended for human consumption. | Maria Vittoria Barbieri (mariavittoria.barbieri@idaea.csic.es) |
University of Alicante. Plant Pathology Lab | | Spain | Biocontrol microorganisms as an alternative to chemicals for managing plant pests and diseases | Federico Lopez-Moya: federico.lopez@ua.es; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4414-0702 |
