Category Research project
  • Risikokommunikation

Capacity Building European Excellence Label

Project status
In the closing process
Project start
May 2023
Project end
Nov 2024
Acronym
EEL
Department
Internationale Angelegenheiten
Website
https://www.xoraeducation.eu/

Description and Objective

Challenge: Risk Assessment (RA) is a not very well-known scientific discipline. Thus, sufficient training opportunities in the field of RA are limited, which leads to a growing need for Capacity Building in food and feed RA. Project objective: The project aims to establish a European Excellence Label (EEL) by 2025, which is useed as a seal of quality for courses in Food Safety RA. The EEL promotes high-quality trainings in the field of Food Safety Risk Assessment and provides orientation to interested individuals and organizations on knowledge and skills that are indispensable for a risk assessor. By awarding the EEL, standards for RA trainings are harmonized. The labeled trainings are provided at a higher level, with a broader portfolio, better accessibility and a larger pool of tutoring experts. The increased visibility of high-quality trainings results in a widened pool of competently trained food safety risk assessors. In the long term, this will strengthen the European risk assessment network by developing the RA knowledge community on MS and EU level.

Result

The desired deliverables were achieved as part of the ‘European Excellence Label’ project. An organisational structure for awarding the xORA (excellent One Health Risk Assessment Education) label was created and the criteria for selecting courses were defined. The concept for the web platform was developed and communication materials were prepared.
Type of project

Third-party funded project

Areas of research

Internationale Zusammenarbeit

Organisational units and partners

Lead unit: Internationale Angelegenheiten (INT)
Contact persons: Dr. Nicole Gollnick, Marina Lechleider, Iris Nadolny
External partner: AGES - Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH, Technische Universität Dänemark, National Food Chain Safety Office, Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Lazio and Tuscany, Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss für Lebensmittel und Umwelt (VKM) - Norwegen, Finnish Food Safety Authority, Netherlands food and consumer product safety authority, Kroatische Agentur für Landwirtschaft und Lebensmittel

Funding body and grant number

Europäische Behörde für Lebensmittelsicherheit
GP/EFSAshort forEuropean Food Safety Authority/ENREL/2022/03-SA02

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