About inprofood

INPROFOOD aims to find new ways to establish dialogue and mutual learning between industry, academia and civil society and achieves it through workpackages aimed at:

• promoting bottom-up development of concepts (processes and structure) of societal engagement in food and health research;
• investigating current processes and structures in the area of food and health in both private and public research sectors and the role ‘Public Engagement in Research’ takes in these sectors;
• developing stakeholder engagement programs both at national and European levels,
• stimulate the adoption of concrete initiatives of societal engagement in food and health research already in the course of the project by forming an action plan that draws insights from various workshops;
• improving the current methodology used in Science in Society (SiS) projects through evaluation of the methodology implemented during the planned project in relation to its objectives and expected impacts;
• keeping the target audience and wider audience informed regarding the advances of the project by continuously disseminating relevant information using various communication tools and channels; and
• additionally supporting and complementing existing FP7 programmes KBBE and HEALTH through establishing cooperations with approved projects and implementing joint activities.

INPROFOOD will contribute to adapting the governance of research and technological development in the area of food and health to facilitate sustainable and inclusive solutions

INPROFOOD’s processes of knowledge sharing, dialogue and networking and the joint initiatives resulting from these processes will help to further incorporate science in society issues into the systems of research

INPROFOOD will contribute to an improved transnational cooperation

INPROFOOD will provide experiential feedback to underpin the policy debate on a “new social contract” between science and society by providing evidence on societal demands to support practical guidelines for inclusive, sustainable research designs

INPROFOOD is tackling the challenge of the “food dilemma” also in supporting and taking into account relevant projects in KBBE and HEALTH