Projects

Projects

CAPNUTRA members are involved in the projects in capacity development, dissemination and spreading of excellence, IT support and advisory for Balkan countries.

Ongoing Projects:

GIANT LEAPS

Reshaping nutrition across Europe Accelerating the dietary shift from animal-based to alternative dietary proteins
Newsletter
Giant Leaps consortium internal newsletter #1
Newsletter 2
Giant Leaps in VALPRO Path

EFSA

EFSA project Creation of Open Access EU Food Composition Database (EU FCDB)(2022-2025)

FAO - CAPNUTRA

FAO Regional Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) Enhancing analytical evidence on diet and nutrition challenges from food systems perspectives in response to COVID-19 (TCP/RER/3805) (2021-2023)
Regional technical meeting on food system based dietary guidelines (FSBDG) development, 7th-9th November 2023 Belgrade, Serbia

Agenda
The event website was launched on the FAO-REU platform:
Regional technical meeting on food systems based dietary guidelines development

FAO-CAPNUTRA LoA “Food system analysis and capacity development on food based dietary guidelines in five selected countries in Europe and Central Asia” under the framework of the regional project

Activities

  • Five country assessment (Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, Serbia and Uzbekistan) on the nature and causes of changing dietary patterns through a food system lens
  • Support the capacity development activities related to FBDGs in three countries (Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro and Serbia)

FNS - Cloud

Food Nutrition Security Cloud (New Horizon 2020 project, 2019 – 2023)

CAPNUTRA in FNS project

EFSA

RPC (Raw Primary Commodity) model update OC/EFSA/DATA/2020/01

SUP - DIE

Sustainability of the platforms for monitoring population food consumption habits and pilot study on web – and computer – based 24h dietary recall tools (2021-2023)
https://sup-die.org/
DAP (Diet Assess & Plan)
FCDB (Food Composition Data Management Tool)
FFQ/FPQ (Food Frequency and Food Propensity Questionnaires)
FoodAtlas
24HDR (24 Hour Dietary Recall)

FAO-CAPNUTRA

“Awareness raising on the food system approach to address malnutrition ”FAO ISC Project “Programme support for the role of food systems in the transition of diets and prevention of malnutrition in the ECA region“ (2019-2020)
Workshop (ZOOM online event), 27th October 2020, Belgrade, Serbia
Workshop on “Awareness raising on the food system approach to address malnutrition” (FAO ISC Project)

FAO BOOK: EDITORs-Fang, C. & Gurinović, M., eds. 2023. Sustainable and nutrition-sensitive food systems for healthy diets and prevention of malnutrition in Europe and Central Asia. Budapest, FAO.

FAO Knowledge
Final Agenda and Concept Note

TRAIN - DIE

Training in dietary assessment and sharing platforms for monitoring population food consumption habits in a long – term perspective (surveillance and continuous training) (2019 – 2020)

FAO REU LoA 2018

Symposium on sustainable food systems for healthy diets in countries of Central and South Eastern Europe (CSEE) with integrated training on food consumption data collection and strengthening the thematic regional networking, 15th-17th October 2018, Belgrade, Serbia (organization and implementation of a 3 -day symposium)
Agenda
Chapter

Reference: Mirjana Gurinović, Jelena Milešević, Milica Zeković, Maria Glibetić, Marina Nikolić, Raimund Jehle,Eleonora Dupouy, Cheng Fang, Keigo Obara, Marija Ranić, Marija Knez, Pieter van’t Veer, Challenges and opportunities to support food systems transformations for healthy and sustainable diets in central and southeastern Europe page ; 51-95 in : Fang, C. & Gurinović, M., eds. 2023. Sustainable and nutrition-sensitive food systems for healthy diets and prevention of malnutrition in Europe and Central Asia. Budapest, FAO.
https://doi.org/10.4060/cc3907en 

Including

Belgrade Declaration for strengthening regional capacities on sustainable food systems for healthy diets and nutrition in central and southeastern Europe

EFSA project

“Support to National Dietary Surveys in Compliance with the EU Menu methodology – children and adults survey in Serbia“ (2017 – 2021). An advisory for the same studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. Read more…

 Past Projects:

  • FP7 ODIN – Food – based solutions for Optimal vitamin D Nutrition and health through the life cycle, 2013 – 2017 
  • FP7 CHANCE – Low Cost technologies and traditional ingredients for the production of Affordable, Nutritionally correct, Convenient foods enhancing health in population groups at risk of poverty, 2011 – 2014 
  • FP7 EuroFIRNexus, Food platform for further integration, refinement and exploitation for its long – term self – sustainability, 2011 – 2013 (www.eurofir.org)
  • EURRECA – Harmonizing nutrient recommendations across Europe with special focus on vulnerable groups and consumer understanding, 2007 – 2012 
  • FP6 NoE EuroFIR – European Food Information Resource Network, 2006 – 2011