Projet ESM (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Food and environmental transitions are worldwide major challenges as illustrated by the Farm to Fork Strategy, at the heart of the EU Green Deal, and by the United Nations Development Goals. Sustainable and healthy food requires an urgent shift from a diet rich in animal-based ingredients towards a diet enriched in plant-based ingredients. This is the challenge behind the Edible Soft Matter (ESM) project. Soft matter science has been tremendously successful in tackling complex problems involving multicomponent materials with a wide range of length and time scales and is now recognised as providing unique perspectives to understand the complexity of foods and to design new foods. ESM objective is to train and develop the employability of a new generation of eighteen young researchers, regulators, consultants and project leaders by providing them with a unique expertise in the design, production and quality assessment of innovative plant-based food products. The ESM Doctoral Candidates (DCs) will benefit from an international, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral training through research in basic and applied soft matter and food sciences. Through their Individual Research Projects and the network-wide training activities, characterised by a strong involvement of the non-academic partners, they will develop the hard and soft skills needed to face the current challenges related to food and environmental transitions. The consortium includes eleven Beneficiaries (including three from the non-academic sector) from seven countries and eleven Associated Partners (including four from the non-academic sector), with worldwide recognised and complementary expertise in food and soft matter sciences. All DCs will be exposed to both academic and non-academic working environments. ESM objectives are timely and the ESM unique training programme holds a great promise for the advancement of the DCs careers as well as for scientifically, technologically and socially relevant outputs.

Mots clés : food sciences, food structure, edible soft matter, plant based proteins, fats and polysaccharides, foams, emulsions, rheology, tribology, texture, sensory, self assembly

Participants :
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 377956.8 €
- Université de Lund (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 293709.6 €
- Michael kiril ood (Bulgarie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Technion - Institut de technologie d'Israël (Israël) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 271432.8 €
- Université polytechnique de Valence (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Cargill (Belgium) (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 262620.0 €
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 525240.0 €
- Université de Montpellier (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Bel (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 282693.6 €
- Unilever (Netherlands) (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 274370.4 €
- Nanoscale Metrix (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Franche-Comté (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 282693.6 €
- Wageningen University & Research (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 274370.4 €
- Le Mans Université (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 989427.6 €
- Sas philibert savours (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Fiberlean technologies limited (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Édimbourg (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Technion - Institut de technologie d'Israël (Israël) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Saint-Clément-d'Ohrid de Sofia (Bulgarie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 207295.2 €