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Information and discussion day on the 7th R&D European Program at the International University House in Clermont Ferrand

on the 3rd of April, in Paris, Cité Internationnale, from 9am to 5pm

Exchanges and discussion on research, regulations and best practices :

- From evaluation to management of sanitary risk: public institution and professionals actions
- Cross views for fusariotoxins risk management tools: development, uses and future

- Measure incertainity: an accuracy and reliability combination 
- From rye ergot to cereal alcaloids: state of art and reseach axes
- Can cadmium contamination in cereals be predicted and managed?
 

Download the application form thanks to the link below.
 

Application until the 15th of march.

This call is built on 2 topics:

- Accessibility to quality food -> accessibility and consumer behaviour

- Sustainable agri-food chain conception -> New solutions for a production chain more sustainable at the economic, environmental and social levels

Téchargez le texte complet de l'AAP ci-dessous.

From the 25th to the 27th of october, French National Research Agency will present in Paris the outcomes of French Food research projects ended in 2010 or 2011.

October 2012, the 19th: the French research network on mycotoxins organize its 3rd meeting in Bordeaux (France). Register until november the 4th!

This day concerns the researchers, institutional as well as the professional social actors sensitized by the mycotoxins problem. 
PhD Massimo REVERBERI will ensure the introductory conference about the mechanisms controlling the mycotoxins biosynthesis by Aspergillus kind. During the four following sessions, the whole facet of the mycotoxins problems will be approached.

Download the program and the register form below.

How to back food industries in their marketing, innovation, human ressources and logistics development? Thursday October the 13th in VetagroSup Clermont-Fd.

You'll dowlaod the latest version of this Initiative, included in the action plan on food price volatility and agriculture. The kick-off meeting is planed on the 15th of september. 

The French Funds for Food and Health launch its first project call for public reseach programs and large scale preventing actions. Applications are waited from july the 18th until ocotber the 17th. 

The call is allocated with 1,8M€ shared out among 3 topics:

- Food and healt actions toward population with a risk of nutritional deficiency (e.i: underpriviledged populations...): 1,2M€ for maximum 3 projects from 2 to 3 years.

- Nutritional Information and nutritional balance: 200K€ for maximum 3 projects, from 1 to 2 years.

- Food pleasure mecanism comprehension: 400K€ for maximum 4 projects, from 1 to 2 ans.

This call is dedicated to public research organisms and teritorial communities, for collaborative or single projects. Companies participation in collaboration with public organisms s recommanded. Works have to take place in France.

Full text (in french) of this project call is available on demand. 

Beyond traditional spring-practicing period, students can also be mobilize from september to febrary to realise "Engineer projets" or "Thematical dossiers". It's time to send your topic proposal. 

As every year, Nutrition Summer University will occur in Clermont-Ferrand from the 21st to the 23rd of septembre 2011. This event will be the place to focus on the link between food chain, environment and health.

Find here under the full prrogram in french. 

The french agriculture and food department propose to support structuring and/or innovating investment projets in agribusiness industries. 

The Strategic Intervention Funds for agribusiness industries (FISIAA) addresses to the process-marketing companies, firstly at SME and the intermediate companies whose raw materials and final products are agricultural products according to the European Union.
The FISIAA object is to support the emergence of projects carried by one or more companies in order to reinforce their competitiveness and to develop collective economic synergies.
The projects call proposes a financing which can reach 40% of the eligible spending and is open until June 20th, 2011.

Polinvest facilitates the lifting of private funds for the SME financing within competitiveness clusters

Launched on the 15th of march 2011 by french ministries in charge of competitiveness cluster policy, the 12th R&D projects call for FUI funding is openned until the 29th of april at 12:00am. 

On the last 3rd of march, AgroParisTech, INRA, CNAM and Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris launched the cereal studies plateform in Massy (91), near Paris.

This technical support center places at the disposal as of cereals processing undertakings, whatever their scope of application (functional flour, bread, biscuits, ingredients, texturing, nonfood applications …) :
- analytical tools: flour and pastes analyses, granulometry, rheology, microscopy…
- baking workshops : weighings, formulation, process (except fermentation) and cooking
- Industrial Pilots: thermomechanical treatment, conditioning, foisonnor, extrudor…

for
- initial training (Bac+3 or PhD) or made-to-order adult continuing education 

- Disposal tools

- Expert testimony, consulting, short term (2 to 6 months) or long term (>1 year) research contracts ..

On November 29th, 2010 Bruno DeLaage and Gino Boismorin, respectively president and director of the Anger competitiveness cluster Végépolys, and Daniel Chéron and Gregoire-Yves Berthe, respectively deputy and director of the Cereales Vallee competitiveness cluster, concretized their partnership by the a convention signature. This partnership has the role to develop the projects between the members of the two clusters, in particular as regards vegetable genetics and physiology.

Céréales Vallée has just presented NUTRIPAN, project selected by FUI (french Interdepartmental Funds ) and financed by the Regional council of Auvergne, the General advice of Ain, European Union and 10 competitiveness cluster's partners. This project will make it possible to improve the French traditional bread by conferring to it more fibers, vitamins and minerals, less salt and not nutritional elements thanks to a comprehensive approach of the manufactoring process chain. Launched in September 2010, NUTRIPAN mobilizes 20 researchers during 4 years and profits from a global budget of 2.5 M€.