Wim Haentjens's presentation at the eROSA Workshop “Towards Open Science in Agriculture & Food”, a side event to High Level conference on FOOD 2030, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (13/6/2018)

1. FOOD 2030
EU Research & Innovation
for tomorrow's nutrition and food systems
Wim HAENTJENS
DG Research & Innovation
European Commission
Workshop "Towards Open Science in Agriculture and Food"
13 June 2018
Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2. A "Perfect Storm"
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3. FOOD 2030
EU R&I Policy Framework to future-proof our
nutrition & food systems
• Need for a systemic approach to future-proofing food
systems by structuring, connecting and scaling-up R&I
Priorities

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Examples of possible R&I
Nutrition Circularity Climate Innovation
Alternative Proteins
Personalised Nutrition
Fighting obesity - pre-
and post-natal nutrition
Fighting Food Waste
Sustainable Use of Land
Bio-fertilisers for Plants
Farmers as Natural
Resource Managers
Boosting Photosynthesis
Printing Healthy Meals for
Elderly patients
Cities - Urban Farming

5. FOOD 2030 Recent & Next Steps
Launch FOOD 2030 Expert Group
(Sep-June)
FOOD 2030 World Food Day Conf.
Brussels (Oct)
FOOD 2030 at EP
COM AGRI (Nov)
SCAR MS Mapping
of Food Systems
R&I (Dec)
FOOD 2030 2nd
High Level Event -
BG Presidency, Plovdiv
(June 2018)

6. BG Presidency 2nd FOOD 2030 High
Level Event
• Research & Innovation for Food and
Nutrition Security – Transforming our food
systems
• 14-15 June 2018, Agricultural University - Plovdiv, Bulgaria
• http://food2030plovdiv.eu/
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7. ‘Oops, that link was the laptop of my PhD student’
A transition to data-rich research
• Data loss is real & significant … while data growth is staggering
• DNA sequence data doubled every 6
months (last 3 years)
• Computer speed and storage capacity :
doubling every 18 months
Nature news, 19 December 2013
Based on "First report of the High Level Expert Group
on the European Open Science Cloud"(October 2016)

8. FOOD CLOUD: Thematic cloud for agri, food and nutrition
• Support the implementation of EOSC in the thematic fields of agriculture, food
and nutrition
• Take into account specific needs/opportunities in these thematic fields
=> 10 M€ investment under Horizon 2020/Societal Challenge 2 (2019)
(DT-SFS-26-2019: Food Cloud Demonstrators )
• Build Food Cloud demonstrators that:
• increase data findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability,
• improve the services provided to research communities
• facilitate re-use of data by a wider user community
• Focus on use cases that address researchers' needs and FOOD 2030 priorities;
• Ensure LT sustainability of demonstrators

9. Conclusing remarks
• Food systems are facing "Perfect Storm"
• FOOD 2030 initiative:
• New level of ambition, impact & focus for research & innovation
• From message, to momentum, to … action
• EU post 2020-discussions are window of opportunity
• EOSC: better data management to increase impact of R&I
• EOSC/ Food Cloud:
• Challenge & opportunity of 'data-transition' are recognised
• Know & respond to researchers' needs
• From roadmaps to debate to co-design ("food commons")
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Thank you!
Email: wim.haentjens@ec.europa.eu
Website bioeconomy directorate:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/bioeconomy
Twitter: #FOOD2030EU