Food Nutrition Security Cloud (FNS-Cloud)

10/2019-09/2023

Funding programme / funding institution: Horizon2020

Grant number: 863059

Project homepage: http://www.fns-cloud.eu

Project description:

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will federate existing and emerging research data infrastructures, and provide researchers with services for Open Research Data (ORD) storage, management, analysis and re-use across disciplines. The move towards a thematic EOSC section for food and nutrition security (FNS) - or Food Cloud - would accelerate and support the ongoing transition to a more Open Science and Open Innovation model for food and nutrition systems, stimulate intra- and interdisciplinary research, and increase the impact and efficiency of research investments and infrastructures. It would address the increased complexity of data sharing and analysis as well as reproducibility within and across scientific disciplines, as well as the sharp growth in data volumes.

The implemented cloud solution will reduce knowledge gaps that inhibit public health and agricultural policy and will benefit the food industry, reducing development and production costs and will facilitate informed consumer choice and ultimately, healthier European citizens. Sustainability of the FNS-Cloud will be achieved through valued added services linking research infrastructure data. FNS-Cloud data will be open access and FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and re-useable) and will be interoperable with the proposed Food, Nutrition and Health Research Infrastructure (FNHRI) and eROSA as well as METROFOOD-RI and other ESFRI RIs (e.g. ELIXIR, ECRIN)

Project partners:

• QUADRAM INSTITUTE BIOSCIENCE UK
• INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN
• PREMOTEC GMBH
• Javier de la Cueva & Asociados (de la Cueva, Javier)
• EUROPEAN FOOD INFORMATION RESSOURCE AISBL
• UNIVERSITY OF WALES TRINITY SAINT DAVID ROYAL CHARTER
• Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
• AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE
• THE HYVE BV
• HYLOBATES CONSULTING SRL
• Universität Maastricht
• INSTITUT ZA NUTRICIONISTIKO LJUBLJANA
• Rijksinstituut Voor Volksgezondheid En Milieu
• STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH
• Universiteit Gent
• FUNDACION IMDEA ALIMENTACION
• HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY
• Technische Universität München
• ZAVOD ZA IDENTIFIKACIJO IN ELEKTRONSKO IZMENJAVO PODATKOV GS1 SLOVENIJA
• SCALE FOCUS AD
• The University of Reading, United Kingdom
• ISEKI-Food Association
• INTERNATIONAL LIFE SCIENCES INSTITUTE EUROPEAN BRANCH AISBL
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Edmund Mach Foundation
• National Research Council, Italy
• AGENZIA PER LA PROMOZIONE DELLA RICERCA EUROPEA
• CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT IN NUTRITION RESEARCH-CAPNUTRA
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE
• LIFELY SRL
• NUTRITICS LIMITED
• STICHTING EFFOST
• RTDS - VEREIN ZUR FORDERUNG DER KOMMUNIKATION UND VERMITTLUNG VON FORSCHUNG, TECHNOLOGIE UND INNOVATION (RTDS VEREIN)