The Joint Programming Initiatives (Jpis) Have Been Launched by the Council to Improve The

ESPEN members may be interested in obtaining information about research calls organized by the funding agencies of the Member States to promote transnational cooperation.

The Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) have been launched by the Council to improve the competitiveness of Europe and to enhance cooperation in R&D by including and building on resources of its Member States. The principle of a JPI is to bring together scientists and scientific programmes and to create an added value for Europe by sharing of knowledge, expertise and data. The JPI “A healthy diet for a healthy life” (JPI HDHL) was launched in 2010. In the JPI HDHL Member States engage in defining, developing and implementing a common strategic research agenda (SRA) to tackle major societal challenges that no Member State is capable of tackling on its own. So called Joint Actions are the instruments in which collaborative research efforts are thematically organized with JPI HDHL Member States contributing to individual Joint Action based on their interest and the availability of national funds (http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/).

The JPI has defined its vision and strategic goal, with three key interacting research areas:

- Determinants of diet and physical activity: ensuring the healthy choice isthe easy choice for consumers.

-Diet and food production: developing healthy, high-quality, safe and sustainable foods.

- Diet-related chronic diseases: preventing diet-related chronic diseases and increasing the quality of life - delivering a healthier diet.

Recently the JPI has launched three new joint transnational call for research proposals and a call for Expressions of Interest of a new Joint Action on Malnutrition:

ESPEN members may be interested in obtaining information about research calls organized by the EU Commission funding agencies of the Member Statesto promote transnational cooperation among Member States.

The Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) have been launched by the EU Commission Council to improve the competitiveness of Europe and to enhance cooperation in R&D by including and building on resources of its Member States. The principle of a JPI is to bring together scientists and scientific programmes and to create an added value for Europe by sharing of knowledge, expertise and data. The JPI “A healthy diet for a healthy life” (JPI HDHL) was launched in 2010. In the JPI HDHL Member States engage in defining, developing and implementing a common strategic research agenda (SRA) to tackle major societal challenges that no Member State is capable of tackling on its own. So called Joint Actions are the instruments in which collaborative research efforts are thematically organized with JPI HDHL Member States contributing to individual Joint Action based on their interest and the availability of national funds (http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/).

The JPI has defined its vision and strategic goal, with three key interacting research areas:

- Determinants of diet and physical activity: ensuring the healthy choice isthe easy choice for consumers. -Diet and food production: developing healthy, high-quality, safe and sustainable foods.

- Diet-related chronic diseases: preventing diet-related chronic diseases and increasing the quality of life - delivering a healthier diet.

Recently the JPI has launched three new joint transnational call for research proposals and a call for Expressions of Interest of a new Joint Action on Malnutrition:

Joint Action “Nutrition and Cognitive Function”http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/index.php/joint-actions/nutricog

The objective of the NutriCog Call is to support ambitious, innovative and transnational collaborative research projects that will address important questions relating to the interplay between nutrition and cognitive function. Both the influence of dietary patterns (and/or dietary constituents, where appropriate) on cognitive functions and vice versa the effects of Central Nervous System nutrient signaling and cognitive processes on food intake, dietary patterns and eating behaviour are relevant for this call.Read more about this call’s purpose, aims, and application procedures (http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/images/documents/Call_Text_NutriCog.pdf).

Joint Action “Intestinal Microbiomics” http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/index.php/joint-actions/microbiomics

The main objective of this Join Action is to support multidisciplinary transnational research consortia using innovative and scientific approaches to increase knowledge on: 1. Theshort-term and long-term functional effects of diet, dietary patterns and dietary constituents on human intestinal microbiota. 2. The functional impact of diet-related variations in the intestinal microbiota on human health and/or the development of non-communicable chronic disease.

Participating countries, respective funding organisations and contributions can be found at http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/images/documents/Call_document_JPI_HDHL_Joi nt_Action_Intestinal_Microbiomics_1.pdf

Joint Action “Food Processing for Health” http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/index.php/joint-actions/foodprocessing

The main objective of the Joint Action “Food Processing for Health” is to support multidisciplinary transnational research consortia using innovative and scientific approaches to investigate the preservation and/or the enhancement of health promoting properties of food as a result of food processing: Food processing for matrix stability and controlled digestibility, bioavailability, bio- accessibility and bioactivity of food compounds

Food structures for appropriate bioavailability of nutrients and bioactives

Optimize food processing for quality and safety.

Call for Expressions of Interest for a new Joint Action: Malnutrition in the Elderly Knowledge Hub http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/index.php/joint-actions/malnutrition

The main objective of the Joint Action “Malnutrition in the Elderly Knowledge Hub” is to support transnational networking activities on:

1. The definition of malnutrition in the elderly.

2. Integration and harmonisation of currently available valid and reliable screening instruments to enable identification of groups of elderly people that will benefit from nutrition interventions in different settings (e.g., home care, nursing homes, hospitals) and countries.

The purpose of the Knowledge Hub (KH) is the increase and facilitation of transnational communication, cooperation and coordination between individual researchers, research groups and research organisations in order to build a productive and sustainable competence network in the field of malnutrition.

The KH will also be instrumental for researchers participating in H2020 calls, in particular the call on “Tackling malnutrition in the elderly”. One of the first activities of the KH is to organise a joint workshop in early 2016 with researchers involved in both initiatives to exchange information and knowledge of ongoing or planned activities.

Further details for submission of Expressions of Interest and participating countries can be found at http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/images/documents/Call_document_JPI_HDHL_Joi nt_Action_Malnutrition.pdf