Selection of hosting sites and fellows for EFSA’s European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship (EU-FORA) Programme

Code: 35390 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2024-ENREL-01 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 26/11/2024 | End submission calls: 20/03/2025

The focus of the EU-FORA fellowship programme will be targeted to activities falling within EFSA’s remit, so as to attract professionals from relevant fields such as: agriculture, biochemistry, bioinformatics, biology, biometrics, biotechnology, chemistry, dietary exposure, environmental sciences, epidemiology, food science, food technology, genetics, health and food safety, human medicine, life sciences, mathematics, microbiology, molecular biology, natural sciences, nutrition, pharmacy, public health, statistics, toxicology, veterinary medicine or related areas.

The specific objectives of this call are to:

• select hosting sites for the training of one or more fellows for a period of 12 months;
• select fellows as proposed by their institutions of origin.

Support for the revision of the guidance document on terrestrial ecotoxicology (SANCO/10329/2002) including the development of an approach for indirect effects

Code: 35156 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-PLANTS-2024-04 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 31/10/2024 | End submission calls: 30/01/2025

The main objective of this call is to identify partners among Competent Organisations of Art. 36 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 that can support EFSA in addressing the mandate on the revision of Terrestrial Ecotoxicology Guidance Document (SANCO/10329/2002) for plant protection products (PPPs) and the mandate for developing an approach to assess potential indirect effects on biodiversity via trophic interactions under agro-environmental conditions within the Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.

Commodity risk assessment for ornamental plants and plant products

Code: 34278 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-PLANTS-2024-03 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 11/07/2024 | End submission calls: 01/10/2024

This call for proposals aims to identify organisations for which tasks falling within the plant health mission of the PLANTS unit can be entrusted by EFSA. In particular, these tasks regard the commodity risk assessment and/or assessment of commodity treatments for the evaluation of the technical dossiers sent by Third Countries for High Risk Plants or for request of derogation of import prohibitions.

Role of nitrate/nitrite and of processing and storage in the N-nitrosamine formation in certain foods

Code: 34267 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2024-FEEDCO-01 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 04/07/2024 | End submission calls: 28/11/2024

The objective of this call is to investigate possible correlations between nitrates/nitrites and nitrosamines, and the role of cooking and storage on nitrosamine formation.

Contribution to the Risk Assessment of Novel Foods and Nutrient Sources in the EU

Code: 34172 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2024-NIF-01 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 11/06/2024 | End submission calls: 21/11/2024

The objective of this call is to identify and award a four-year Framework partnership agreement (FPA) to one or more competent organisations or consortia thereof that can provide capacity and expertise (chemistry, microbiology, biotechnology, food technology, nutrition, ADME, exposure and toxicology) that are relevant for the assessment of NF technical dossiers.

Pathway to animal welfare quantitative risk assessment: piloting a standardised collection of Animal Based Measures in pigs

Code: 34127 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2024-BIOHAW-01 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 23/05/2024 | End submission calls: 14/11/2024

The scope of this call is to select (existing and new) animal-based measures (ABMs) and related management-, resources- and environmental-based (so called ‘context’) data from sows and piglets and from different housing systems and practices, including slaughter, to collect in the field on a large scale and in a harmonised way across EU MSs. These data are to be used for developing a freely accessible prototype Database for analysing the correlation between ABMs and related context data and enabling future quantitative risk assessment of the welfare on-farm of sows and piglets.

Development of pest survey cards for Union quarantine pests: Begomoviruses and their vector Bemisia tabaci (Lot 1) and pests of cereal and fibre crops (lot 2)

Code: 34062 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2024-PLANTS-02 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 30/05/2024 | End submission calls: 25/09/2024

The purpose of this call is to develop pest survey cards to support the EU MSs in the preparation of pest surveys, specifically for

• Lot 1: Begomoviruses and their vector Bemisia tabaci
• Lot 2: Pests affecting cereal and fibre crops

The work consists in characterising (i) the pests, (ii) the population of host plants targeted by the surveys and (iii) the methods of detection and identification for these pests.

Statistical and experimental protocols for estimation of pest survey parameters

Code: 33836 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-PLANTS-2024-01 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 30/04/2024 | End submission calls: 04/07/2024

The objective of this call is to prepare experimental and statistical protocols to quantify key survey parameters, Method Sensitivity, Relative Risk and Design Prevalence, for their estimation in the process of designing surveys for the EU priority pests.

Animal Welfare: heat stress in livestock during transport

Code: 33826 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2024-BIOHAW-02 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 28/05/2024 | End submission calls: 31/07/2024

The aim is the identification of Article 36 organisations to develop and validate an algorithm or model that can predict the effective temperature in a livestock vehicle using the weather forecast and the effect of mitigating strategies such the use of mechanical ventilation and varying the space allowance given to livestock.

Establishing capacities for active surveillance of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds in Europe

Code: 31773 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2023-BIOHAW-06 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 15/11/2023 | End submission calls: 21/02/2024

The objectives of the call are to

• establish a network of surveillance nodes across Europe
• build long-term capacities and partnerships for active surveillance of HPAI viruses in wild birds
• complement already existing (i.e. in wild birds found dead, injured or sick; in wild birds trapped or hunted with or without clinical signs, in sentinel wild birds) or planned surveillance activities
• provide a pipeline for rapid detection and identification of avian influenza viruses
• get a fuller picture of avian influenza viruses circulating in Europe and thereby increase the genetic pool available for further analyses

Topics under this Call:

Lake Constance Region

Veneto Region

Western Black Sea

Selection of hosting sites and fellows for EU-FORA (European Food Risk Assessment) Fellowship Programme

Code: 31614 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2023-ENREL-01 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 07/11/2023 | End submission calls: 14/03/2024

This call is focuaed on the selection of hosting sites and fellows for EU-FORA.

The specific objectives of this call are to:

• select fellow hosting sites for the training of one or more fellows, for a period of 12 months; and
• select fellows as proposed by their institutions of origin. Specifically, the call seeks to identify consortia of hosting sites and fellow sending organisations.

PERA - Advancing the ERA of Plant Protection Products towards a system-based approach

Code: 29939 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2023-PREV-01 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 06/07/2023 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

The focus of this scope is to advance ERA methodologies in the area of terrestrial ecotoxicology by collecting and generating data to further improve the current knowledge on the exposure of non-target organisms in agro-ecosystems and to link the exposure with the effects.

Development of pest survey cards for Union quarantine pests

Code: 29618 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-PLANTS-2023-07 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 31/05/2023 | End submission calls: 26/09/2023

This call for proposal aims to support EFSA for outputs related to the pest surveillance activities falling within the mission of the EFSA Plant Health Monitoring team. Specifically, EFSA is requested to prepare pest survey cards for all the EU quarantine pests, the protected zone pest and provisional quarantine pests and to further develop tools and methods to assist Member States in optimizing their survey efforts. A pest survey card is a document that aims at guiding the MSs in the characterisation of the pest, its host plants and the methods for its detection and identification.

Selection of hosting sites and fellows for EU-FORA Risk Assessment Fellowship Programme

Code: 25236 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2022-ENREL-02 | Programme name: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Start submission calls: 08/11/2022 | End submission calls: 15/03/2023

The specific objectives of this grant call are to:
(1) select fellow hosting sites for the training of one or more fellows, for a period of 12 months;
(2) to select fellows as proposed by their institutions of origin. Specifically, the call seeks to identify consortia of hosting sites and fellow sending organisations.