EU FP6 Network of
Excellence EuroFIR:
European Food Information Resource Network
EuroFIR forms a collaboration network on the development and
application of a unified, reliable and accessible European Food
Information Resource. It comprises 110 researchers and 50
postgraduate students from 25 European countries and 44 EuroFIR
partners.
The principal objective is to build and disseminate a
comprehensive, coherent and validated databank providing a
single, authoritative source of food composition data in Europe
for nutrients, and newly emerging bioactive compounds with
putative health benefits. More information on EuroFIR can be
found at
http://www.eurofir.net
The Training Work Package (WP 3.1) within EuroFIR has as its
main objectives to promote knowledge, skills development and
vision in food composition research within the network, and
across Europe through a coherent set of closely inter-related
training and education activities. These activities will bring a
high level of integration of existing and new training
activities to this field.
There is lack of knowledge of possible training needs in non-EuroFIR
countries in Europe and specific INCO countries. An initiative
of WP 3.1 will be to identify their specific training needs and
find opportunities for collaboration with EuroFIR. For this
purpose the present questionnaire has been developed.
EuroFIR on-line
questionnaire for special training needs in non-EuroFIR Countries
We therefore send you a link to the EuroFIR Questionnaire.
Please focus on your current training and research needs and
possible areas for collaboration with EuroFIR. It would be up to
you how much information you want to include, but the more we
would get the more comprehensive and useful our inventory would
be. We would appreciate if you could prioritise answering this
questionnaire, which hopefully is not too time consuming.
Please complete this questionnaire and send it within ten days.
In case of any queries please do not hesitate to contact:
Mirjana Pavlovic, E-mail:
mirjana.pavlovicmd@gmail.com
with copy to Cornelia Witthöft: E-mail:
Cornelia.Witthoft@lmv.slu.se
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Your Name
Country
Region
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Address
Contact Person
Web address
e-mail contact address
Telephone number
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1. Training needs in the field of production and use
of food composition databanks
(workshops, seminars, courses,
E-learning)
Methods of analysis for nutrients
Sampling of Foods
Data Quality and Data Evaluation
Food nomenclature systems
Data base management systems
How to define priorities for
including foods and nutrients in the database
Steps in establishing a food
composition database
Reviewing of existing data
Recipe calculations
Other training needs, please describe
2. Possible areas for collaboration with EuroFIR
partners
Staff (technical/researchers/others)
Students (bachelor/master/PhD)
3. Research Facilities
For your work on food data bases you
will need special equipment and facilities. As an
example, if you want to produce data on fatty acids,
you will need GC or LC equipment; if you want to
build a database you will need computers and
software. Could you indicate in the box which
research equipement and facilities you are lacking
and as a consequence which tasks you will not be
able to perform. An answer could be as follows: we
do not have AAS equipment, so we cannot perform
analyses of Fe, Zn, Cu, Se.
Describe special equipement and
facility needs here
4. Exchange programmes
Describe which specific (research)
tasks or specific training needs would benefit from
visits of your staff to experienced EuroFIR
partners. Could you also describe subjects for PhD
fellowships to be performed in another institute (EuroFIR
member or future EuroFIR member)
Describe specific tasks (research or
training) needs here
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