JPI HDHL call Malnutrition in the Elderly Knowledge Hub open for applications

The Joint Programming Initiative Healthy Diet for A Healthy Life (JPI HDHL) launched the joint transnational call Malnutrition in the Elderly Knowledge Hub. The deadline for submission of the Expression of Interest is May 21, 2015. The following JPI HDHL Member Countries will participate in the call: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain. The anticipated budget from ZonMw is € 250,000.

The main objective of this JPI call is to support transnational networking activities on:

• The definition of malnutrition in the elderly;
• 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 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.