Deliverable 3.8 2nd Report on monitoring user's feedback (on EuroFIR) and final recommendations for improvement
Creators: name: Bell, Simone
name: Kadvan, Agnes
name: Assist Prof Barbara, Koroušić Seljak
name: Pakkala, Heikki
name: Unwin, Ian
name: Plumb, Jenny
name: Finglas, Paul
name: Presser, Dr Karl
name: Hollman, Peter
name: Astley, Dr Siân
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: EuroFIR
The EuroFIR Food Platform
Nexus

description: The objectives of WP3 are to further strengthen and build on EuroFIR’s existing institutional commitment to durable integration via the expansion of the core food composition database (FCDB) compiler organisation network (to include new FCDB compiler organisations from non-EuroFIR countries from within and outside Europe), new users and stakeholders and to refine strategy to attract new future income streams from a wide range of sources. These activities are key to the member-based, non-profit association EuroFIR AISBL, which was established in 2009 and was one of the key achievements of the sustainability outputs in the EuroFIR Network of Excellence (NoE).

There are two specific aims:





To clearly (a) delineate and distinguish Strategic Activity Units (SAUs) describing both primary and support processes for the purpose; (b) isolate and enhance the commercial uniqueness of the SAUs that can more easily generate new income and more adequately serve the needs of the user target groups, and (c) implement the business and marketing plan for long-term sustainability and financial survivability.




To further enhance the commercial attractiveness and usability of eBASIS by (a) improving the search and reporting functions; (b) exploring further new areas relevant to both agricultural commodities and value-added food products for eBASIS (e.g. bioactive peptides in dairy and meat foods); and (c) presenting eBASIS database to the food sector as a valuable commercial product.



The detailed description of the SAUs can be found in the deliverable document 3.3. (Report on identification and delineation of SAUs). The progress on the commercialisation activities for the eBASIS database were described in the deliverable documents 3.9 (Report summarising the outcomes of the pilot for eBASIS implementation and exploitation) and 3.10 (Final Report summarising the detailed interactions and main recommendations for eBASIS exploitation). Furthermore, the detailed description of the EuroFIR product range, as well as its users, strengths, challenges, and summary of previous feedback collection, can be found in the deliverable document 3.6 (Report on final product range promotion booklet for several media channels), while deliverable document 3.7 (1st Report on monitoring user’s feedback and recommendations on product range for improvements and exploitation) describes the user perception about the products and provides valuable information for improvements of the product range. This document describes the feedback collection to a specific new tool, FoodEXplorer, which was developed following the feedback to former eSearch facility, presented in deliverable 3.7. Moreover, the final status quo of the entire product range to the end of the NEXUS project is summarized.