JPI HDHL call Food Processing for Health open for applications

The Joint Programming Initiative Healthy Diet for A Healthy Life (JPI HDHL) launched the joint transnational call for research proposals 'Food Processing for Health'. The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2015. The following JPI HDHL Member Countries will participate in the call: Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Romania. The anticipated budget from ZonMw is € 650,000. The main objective of the Joint Action call 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. The overall vision is to optimise food processing to better allow different foods improve health.

Applicants may be research groups working in universities or other higher education institutions, non­-university public research institutes, hospitals and other health care settings, as well as commercial companies. The eligibility of these organisations and institutions are subject to the national regulations of the individual funding organisations and may therefore vary.

The JPI HDHL aims to coordinate research on the impact of diet and lifestyles on health, significantly contributing to the construction of a fully operational European Research Area for the prevention of diet-related diseases and strengthening the leadership and competitiveness of research activities in this field.