Projet FAIROmics (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

A transition towards sustainable food systems is urgently needed to face challenges such as climate change or scarcity of resources. Food impact accounts for 26% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Animal-based food products in the European diet is the most important factor determining the footprint of food consumption. Plant-based dairy and meat alternatives have grown in popularity in recent years for various reasons, including sustainability and health benefits as well as lifestyle trends and dietary restrictions. However, plant-based food products can be nutritionally unbalanced, and their flavour profiles may limit their acceptance by consumers. Microorganisms have been used in making food products for millennia. Besides their primary role in food preservation, by virtue of their fermentative metabolism, they contribute to improving food safety and organoleptic properties and can provide additional health-promoting effects. However, the diversity of microbial communities driving plant-based fermentations, as well as their key genetic and phenotypic traits and potential synergies among community members, remain poorly characterized. Many data exist but they are spread into different literatures (scientific and grey) or in best case in different databases, but not always reusable because difficult to find, access and because databases are not systematically interoperable. The FAIROmics innovative interdisciplinary research programme will gather universities and private companies to enable the FAIRification of omics data and databases interoperability, and develop knowledge graphs for data-driven decision making to rationally design microbial communities for imparting desirable characteristics to plant-based fermented foods in the context of open science and its regulations. The FAIROmics training programme aims at developing Doctoral candidates’ skills at the interface between artificial intelligence, life sciences, humanities and social sciences.

Mots clés : food science, plant based fermented foods, microbial communities, species interactions, omics, natural language processing, data mining, artificial intelligence

Participants :
- AgroParisTech (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (France) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Toulouse (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 282693.6 €
- Université Paris-Saclay (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 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Nederlands Instituut Voor Zuivel Oonderzoek (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 274370.4 €
- Université de Bologne (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 518875.2 €
- Université de Vigo (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université nationale et capodistrienne d'Athènes (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 240098.4 €
- Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 262620.0 €
- Conseil supérieur de la recherche scientifique (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 503942.4 €
- Université de Szeged (Hongrie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Paderborn (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260539.2 €
- Université de Leipzig (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Reading (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Chr. Hansen (Denmark) (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 301788.0 €
- Université polytechnique de Valence (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 262620.0 €
- Danone (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Strasbourg (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université libre d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 274370.4 €
- Adlin Science (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 565387.2 €
- Association Bernard Gregory (France) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €