Wageningen University (WU) provides education and generates knowledge in the field of life sciences and natural resources. WU aims to make a real contribution to quality of life, involving both an adequate supply of safe and healthy food and drink, and the chance to live, work and play in a balanced ecosystem with a large variety of plants and animals.
INRA is a public French research organisation employing some 8,500 people and has among its strategic interests the impact of food on human health and well-being. It is ranked 2nd in the world and 1st in Europe for publications in agricultural sciences, and plant and animal sciences.
University College Cork (UCC) was originally established in 1845 as one of three Queen's Colleges in Cork, Galway and Belfast. In 1908 it became a constituent College of the National University of Ireland and a constituent University of the National University under legislation enacted in 1997.
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Institute of Food Research (ifr) is an international leader in research harnessing food for health with its core science programmes integrated around the characterization and understanding of the gut as an integrated biological system and on defining the nature of interactions between the host and ingested food.
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Warsaw University of Life Sciences was established in 1816. There are over 25 000 students and around 1200 academic staff. The range of the academic programs includes 27 majors within which there are 70 areas of specializations from biological, through technical, medical and economical to humanistic.
FoodDrinkEurope represents the European food and drink industry, the largest manufacturing sector in the EU in terms of turnover and employment. It aims to promote the industry's interests to European and international institutions, contributing to a framework addressing, inter alia, food safety and science, nutrition and health, environmental sustainability and competitiveness.
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European Food Information Council (EUFIC) is a non-profit organisation which provides science-based information on food safety & quality and health & nutrition to the media, health and nutrition professionals, educators and opinion leaders, in a way that promotes consumers understanding.
MTT Agrifood Research Finland is the leading research institute in the areas of agriculture and food in Finland, which employs in excess of 800 staff, including approximately 80 full-time researchers in its Economic Research Unit. The unit has a strong research tradition in the areas of food demand analysis, the economics of food markets and rural enterprises, agricultural production, and agro-environmental economics. Besides applied scientific research, the unit provides economic policy advice to the Finnish government.