Projet FoodSmartphone (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Current food quality and safety testing is, to a large extent, an inefficient, expensive and ineffective process, unable to assure food safety for all consumers and unable to prevent major food fraud incidents. A paradigm shift in quality and safety testing is urgently required in order to free resources for an intensified combat against fraud in the food chain. As an enabling technology solution, the FoodSmartphone ETN proposes the development of smartphone-based (bio)analytical sensing and diagnostics tools for simplified on-site rapid pre-screening of food quality and safety parameters and wireless data transfer to servers of relevant stakeholders. FoodSmartphone comprises 7 Training Sites (3 universities, 3 research centres, 1 innovation SME), plus 5 Partner Organisations (1 global food industry, 1 diagnostics SME and 3 universities awarding doctoral degrees). The consortium has been built upon highly complementary disciplines: (bio)analytical chemists, biologists, physicists, micro-engineers, mathematicians and food chemists will work together on the joint supra-disciplinary goal. FoodSmartphone provides a unique mix of exciting local PhD research covering all aspects of smartphone-based screening tools plus a wealth of network-wide science & innovation and transferable skills training: the ETN provides more than 14 network-wide and transferable skills training events and 16 optional- and 11 mandatory intersectoral secondment opportunities. The ETN and results thereof will be widely disseminated to key stakeholders, embedded in continuous education programs and translated into a final exploitation plan. Scientific awareness of the next generation and public engagement will be boosted by several well-targeted outreach activities. The scientific training in novel smartphone-based sensing technologies plus the complementary skills training provided will have a major impact on future EU monitoring practices and, moreover, pave the road for Citizen Science approaches to food quality and safety testing.

Mots clés : smartphone, diagnostics, on site, food chain, monitoring, spectroscopy

Participants :
- University of Chemistry and Technology (Rép. Tchèque) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 232422.48 €
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 506280.52 €
- Linköping University (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 258972.04 €
- Queen's University Belfast (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 819863.64 €
- Wageningen University & Research (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 539123.48 €
- Aquamarijn (Netherlands) (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 209052.22 €
- Barilla (Italy) (Italie) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Zeulab sl (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland) (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 265226.76 €