WP6: Exploitation and Dissemination of Information

Objectives:

• Dissemination of new information by publication in the scientific literature and presentation of research findings at scientific meetings
• Information will be made available to the general public by means of a web-site, particularly the FAIP, and publication in the popular scientific press. The web-site will be constantly up-dated with project information, prepared in a way to be accessible to non-scientists.
• Other published documents (such as newsletters) will be used to distribute information to consumers, regulators and the agro-food industry.
• Project objectives and progress towards project goals will be assessed in relation to the proposed workplan and progress towards project objectives.
• Plans for exploitation of deliverables beyond the end of the project will be developed, particularly the maintenance of the allergenic foods database.
• The progress being made towards the scientific deliverables will be assessed at the mid-point, using an invited external referee to give objective feedback to the consortium.
• A seminar will be held in Brussels to disseminate the project result and recommendations regarding communication strategies, to interested regulators from different EU member states/key officials in the Commission.

Leader:

• Dr Ronald van Ree, Sanquin & University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Partners:

• Professor Rudi Krska, IFA-Tulln, Austria
• Dr Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber, University of Vienna, Austria
• Professor Jacques Viaene, Gent University, Belgium
• Dr Elke Anklam, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Belgium
• Dr Charlotte Madsen, Danish Veterinary & Food Administration, Denmark
• Professor Lars Poulsen, Laboratory for Medical Allergology, Denmark
• Dr Joachim Scholderer, MAPP, Denmark
• Dr Erkka Valovirta, EFA, Belgium & Finland
• Dr Didier Marion, INRA, France
• Dr Jean-Michel Wal, Laboratoire Associe INRA-CRJJ, France
• Dr Sylvia Pfaff, EHI, Germany.
• Dr Angelike Paschke, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Dr George Chryssochoidis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
• Dr Photini Papageorgiou, University of Athens, Greece
• Dr Ram Reifen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Professor Shmuel Yannai, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Dr Guy Van den Eede, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy
• Dr Anna Saba, INRAN, Italy
• Professor Elide Pastorello, Regional Reference Centre for Allergic Diseases, Italy
• Dr Elke Anklam, DG Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
• Dr Harry Wichers, ATO, The Netherlands
• Dr Hub Noteborn, Department of Food Safety & Health, The Netherlands
• Professor Dr. Lynn J Frewer, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands
• Dr Hans-Jacob Skarpeid, MATFORSK, Norway
• Prof Henryk Kostyra, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Dr Jesus Contreras, University of Barcelona, Spain
• Dr Rosa Sanchez-Monge, Universidad Politecnica Madrid, Spain
• Dr Åsa Schiött, SIK, Sweden
• Dr Reto Battaglia, SQTS, Switzerland
• Mr David Reading, Anaphylaxis Campaign, UK
• Dr Paul Reece, Central Science Laboratory, UK
• Dr Clare Mills (Co-ordinator), Institute of Food Research, UK
• Professor Peter Shewry, Rothamsted Research, UK
• Phil Goodwin, Tepnel BioSystems Limited, UK
• René Crevel, Unilever Research, UK
• Dr Rebecca Knibb, University of Derby, UK
• Dr Christine Edwards, University of Glasgow, UK
• Dr Kate Grimshaw, University of Southampton, UK
• Dr Richard Goodman, Monsanto Company, USA
• Dr Steve Gendel, National Center for Food Safety & Toxicology, USA
• Professor Sue Hefle, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
• Dr Susan Miles, Institute of Food Researck, UK

Outcomes:

• Newsletters issues 1-3 (August 2003, 2004, 2005)
• Web-site (March 2003)
• Interim, annual and final reports (June and December 2003, 2004, 2005)
• Publications of reviews, book chapters and popular articles from project partnership
• Presentation of project outputs at scientific meetings
• Development of business plan for maintenance allergenic foods database.