Projet BIOTOXDoc (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

There is a massive and urgent need to ensure security and safety of the food supply of the growing world population. The ongoing war in Ukraine as well as the energy crisis emphasized this even further. However, agriculture and food industries continue to be vulnerable to problems of contamination with biotoxins produced by plants, algae and particularly by fungi. Global warming and extreme weather events make the occurrence of these toxic metabolites even less predictable. Alarmingly, the EU currently faces a lack of food safety specialists, as recognised by the European Commission. These challenges lay the foundation for BIOTOXDoc – Safe food in a world of changing climate: The doctoral training programme to develop novel control, mitigation and risk assessment methods for biotoxins. The objective of BIOTOXDoc is to train doctoral students (PhDs) in a broad range of skills and complementary competencies - necessary to innovate various scientific fields and approaches, so urgently needed to control and mitigate biotoxins - by taking advantage of a multidisciplinary, multi-sectoral team of world-class experts. The training and research will include development of early warning systems and on‑site testing by portable mass spectrometry. PhDs will develop novel detoxification strategies of biotoxins and will assess the combined toxicity of co‑occurring biotoxins. Moreover, PhDs will develop much-needed rapid as well as confirmatory tests for biotoxins and aim to close major gaps in our current knowledge of biotoxins. The major common link between all PhDs, working on a wide range of biotoxins at different points along the food and feed chain, is the influence of climate change on biotoxin occurrence and the resulting demand of revised strategies to mitigate its impact on the European population.

Mots clés : biotoxins, climate change

Participants :
- Chelab srl (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Queen's de Belfast (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation en Santé de l’Université de Porto (Portugal) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Universität für Bodenkultur. Vienne (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 540662.4 €
- Wageningen University & Research (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 274370.4 €
- Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 282693.6 €
- Biomin holding gmbh (Autriche) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 270331.2 €
- Institut de technologie chimique de Prague (Rép. Tchèque) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 237038.4 €
- Université de Toulouse (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Wageningen University & Research (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- université catholique du Sacré-Cœur (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 259437.6 €
- Romer labs division holding gmbh (Autriche) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 251971.2 €
- Laboratorio cifga sa (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation en Santé de l’Université de Porto (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 243403.2 €
- Barilla (Italy) (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Vigo (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- IRIS Technology Solutions (Spain) (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Da vinci laboratory solutions bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €