2022

• 36th EFFoST International Conference 2022 | Shaping the Production of Sustainable, Healthy Foods for the Future

  CHAIR: Siân Astley (EuroFIR, BE)

  Special Session: How to make food nutrition security data FAIRer: An introduction to FNS-Cloud | 9th November 2022, 09:00 Dublin/GMT

  Open Science is based on transparent and collaborative working, producing and sharing data, knowledge, tools, and services (resources) as early as possible in the research process. Existing food nutrition security resources across Europe are fragmented, lack critical mass, and access is unevenly distributed with the majority unfindable or inaccessible because of cost. Food Nutrition Security Cloud is developing the first-generation ‘food cloud’ by federating existing and emerging resources and developing and integrating services to support re-use through the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This session will introduce FNS-Cloud and explore how FNS-Cloud is bringing independent activities together under three demonstrators, specifically Agri-food data and tools (DEM01), Nutrition & Lifestyle (DEM02), and Non-communicable diseases and microbiome (DEM03). In September 2023, FNS-Cloud will launch these demonstrators and advance ICT tools and services, facilitating better FNS research and exploitation of knowledge as well as delivering training and support to boost confidence and build capacity amongst user communities.

• Paul Finglas (QIB, UK)

  Food Nutrition Security Cloud (FNS-Cloud)

• Igor Pravst (NUTRIS, SI),

  Branded food composition databases: How and why to collect data?
  

• Eileen Gibney (UCD, IE)

  Challenges and solutions; Fairification of Food & Health Data

• Maria Traka (QIB, UK)

  Making diet & microbiome data FAIR

• Enrique Carillo de Santa Paul (IMDEA Food Institute, ES)

  FOODRUGS, integrating public data repositories to explore food-drug interactions

2022

• EGI Conference 2022 | Together for Tomorrow – Innovative Computing for Research

  Data and computer services for the food sector | FNS-Cloud workshop (Prague, CZ)
  21st September 2022, 15:30 CEST

  FNS-Cloud aims to overcome European research infrastructure fragmentation by federating food nutrition security (FNS) data, tools, and services (resources) essential for addressing diet, health, and consumer behaviour as well as on sustainable agriculture and the bioeconomy. The implemented cloud solution (FNS Cloud, no hyphen) will promote FAIRification of FNS resources and support exploitation by user communities. Sustainability of FNS Cloud (solution) will be achieved largely through added value, linking existing and emerging research infrastructures as well as data, tools, and services. FNS Cloud comprises a webservice, linking resources and delivering Services via a user interface, regardless of location. However, whilst FNS-Cloud (project) assets (datasets, tools, and services) have been built with interoperability in mind, the majority of FNS resources across the EU have developed separately, often organically, making mapping, merging, and exploitation challenging both technically and in terms of the research questions that can be posed and answered. The session will brought together representatives from EuroFIR, METROFOOD, Blue Cloud, COMFOCUS, Elixir, ECRIN, FNHRI, EOSC to explore future FAIRification of food sector data, tools and services.

• Mark Dietrich, Senior Advisor, EGI Foundation

  Service and Semantic Interoperability in EOSC

• Annette Fillery-Travis, Professor UWTSD (UK)

  Multidisciplinary working for a shared goal: Education, community and patience

• Eileen Gibney, Professor, UCD (IE)

  Challenges and solutions; Fairification of Food & Health Data

• Duncan Ng (QIB, UK)

  FNS-Cloud Microbiome Demonstrator: The FAIRification of diet & microbiome data

• Barbara Koroušić Seljak, Professor, JSI (SI)

  Standardisation and interoperability of food and nutrition data

• Siân Astley, Senior Researcher, EuroFIR (BE) for Claudia Zoani, Researcher, ENEA (IT)

  FNS-Cloud and METROFOOD-RI to support food traceability and transparency

• Anton Ellenbroek, Fisheries Projects Development Consultant, FAO (IT)

  FAIR Fish data and tools

2021

• 35th EFFoST International Conference 2021 | Healthy individuals, resilient communities, and global food security

  Open Science Taster | FNS-Cloud workshop
  3rd November 2021, 16:20 CET

  This workshop introduced the pillars of Open Science, while focusing on open data and open access publishing for food and nutrition scientists. It was lead by: Katherine Flynn (ISEKI-Food Association, AT) and Edward Sliwinski (EFFoST, NL). 

• Topics included: (i) why open science is important, (ii) components making up open science, (iii) how research can be made more open and FAIR, (iv) practical advantages of open science for scientific careers, funding opportunities, and society, and (v) EOSC and the FNS-Cloud activities.

  All participants agreed their basic knowledge about open science was satisfactory after the workshop; before the workshop only one participant claimed satisfactory understanding open science. The strong interactive character of the workshop was highly appreciated with participants saying, “role play and debate“, “discussions and roundtables” and “interactive sessions” were their favourite parts. Nine delegates attended the workshop, seven of whom completed the evaluation and earned FNS-Cloud certification

  We are now preparing for the 2022 workshops, starting at the EuroFIR Food Forum (06.04.2022) in Brussels (BE).

2021

• ISEKI-Food 2021 | Sustainable development goals in foods systems: Challenges and opportunities for the future

  Making existing and emerging food nutrition security data and tools findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable
  21st June 2021, 13:00-17:30 CEST

  This symposium introduced FNS-Cloud and explored some of the first outputs, focusing on existing (use cases) and emerging (field trials) data, and how FNS-Cloud plans to launch three demonstrators, facilitating better research and exploitation of knowledge as well as delivering training and support to boost confidence and build capacity amongst user communities to improve the sustainability of European food systems and further enhance existing strengths in FNS research.

• Programme

  Introduction to FNS-Cloud
  Siân Astley, EuroFIR (BE)

  Generating a search engine for food products: Olive oil, milk, and fish
  Claudia Zoani, ENEA (IT)

  Food labelling: Crowd sourcing information for research
  Maša Hribar, NUTRIS (SI)

  Dietary intake assessment techniques
  Michelle Weech, UoR (UK)

  Dietary intake data analysis
  Laura Bardon, UCD (IE)

  Microbiome Study: Covid-19-safe protocols for dietary intervention studies
  Kathryn Murray, QIB (UK)

  Understanding food bioactive compounds in disease: Food-drug interactions
  Ana Ramírez de Molina & Enrique Carrillo de Santa Pau, IMDEA Food Institute (ES)

  FNS-Cloud Next Steps: Demonstrators for FNS researchers
  Paul Finglas, QIB (UK)

2020

• 34th EFFoST International Conference | Bridging high-tech, food-tech and health: Consumer-oriented innovations

  Food & Health Digitalisation
  12th November 2020, 11.00-12:30 CET

  This session considered outputs from several EU- and otherwise-funded projects and is suitable for food scientist, engineers, and technologists, whether academia or industrial, as well as developers and those working consumer services. Whilst each of the projects consider different aspects of the wider food and health research landscapes, and their outputs are diverse in purpose, nonetheless they reflect a drive to make existing and emerging food, diet and health resources more readily findable, accessible and reusable. In achieving this goal, outputs such as those developed by these projects, for consumers including vulnerable populations (e.g. young people, pregnant women, older adults) or the industry (e.g. blue economy, app developers, diet and health services), will be more relevant and offer added-value for funding bodies as well as citizens.