The Knowledge Hub (KH) on Food and Nutrition Security of the JPI HDHL, JPI OCEANS and FACCE-JPI, under the umbrella of ERA-Net Cofund ERA-HDHL has been established and the first network meeting was held on the 7th of June 2019 in Brussels.

In total, 42 eligible Expression of Interests (EoIs) have been submitted to the Joint Funding Action “Knowledge Hub on Food and Nutrition Security”. After evaluation by the Call Steering Committee (CSC), the 42 research groups were selected to work out a joint network proposal. The selected network members are from the following 7 countries: Portugal, Italy, Spain, Norway, France, Latvia and Germany.

All selected research groups were invited to a network meeting that took place on the 7th June 2019 in Brussels. During this meeting, the various research groups had the opportunity to meet each other. Dr. Habtamu Alem (No), Prof. Marco Bindi (It) and Dr. Duarte Torres (PT) took the lead as network coordinators and guided the discussion on the potential structure (work packages) of the joint proposal.

The next steps will be the submission of the joint network proposal in September 2019 (exact deadline to be confirmed) and the evaluation by an international scientific panel of experts afterwards.

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In February 2019, the JPI HDHL launched “METADIS”, a third call organized under the umbrella of the ERA HDHL-INTIMIC in order to promote collaborative international research on nutrition and health.

The first submission step of the METADIS call closed on April 2, 2019. 42 pre-proposals were submitted among which 39 were eligible. The scientific evaluation of the 39 pre-proposals was organised and 20 consortia have been invited for the submission of a full-proposal. The submission deadline of the full proposals is July 9, 2019 at 16:00 UTC.

In agreement with the missions of the ERA-Net, the METADIS call focus on the impact of diet, food components and food processing on body weight regulation and related metabolic diseases. Moreover, each submitted project should present one or more dedicated actions intended to promote the career development of the early career scientists (PhD, Post-doc) involved in the proposed project.

Eleven countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden) and 13 funding agencies support this initiative.

More information and call documents are available online at the following link: https://healthydietforhealthylife.eu/index.php/open-calls/metadis

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The website of the JPI HDHL project: Policy Eveluation Network (PEN) has been launched.

The Policy Evaluation Network, funded by the JPI HDHL, started in the beginning of 2019 and will run for 3 years. PEN’s vision is to provide Europe with tools to identify, evaluate and benchmark policies designed to directly or indirectly address physical inactivity, unhealthy diets and sedentary behaviour while accounting for existing health inequalities. Building on existing knowledge from the DEDIPAC Knowledge Hub and the INFORMAS network, PEN will deliver an overview of the ‘best’ public policies most likely to sustainably support more favourable health behaviours.

Researchers from 28 institutes in 7 European countries and New Zealand combine their expertise to establish a multi-disciplinary research network, including representatives of World Health Organisation and INFORMAS, to interact with policy makers and renowned experts in policy development, implementation and evaluation.

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