A business plan will be developed in order to draw up a robust business model for the maintenance of the MyToolBox outcomes after the project. Within the MyToolBox project we will also implement a communication campaign including training to reach the targeted stakeholders including farmers and their associations and to disseminate information about the project and its results to actors and stakeholders along the food supply chain, to opinion leaders/regulators, the media, professionals working in agriculture and food manufacture, educators, and other multipliers, food and drink industries (including SMEs), consumer organisations, the scientific community and the general public. A compliance assessment will be carried out to identify critical issues in legislation/standards in order to implement MyToolBox and to anticipate legislative implications of the project outputs.
Objectives of work package 5
- To create a project website including a public dissemination part and a portal for inter-consortium sharing of information, databases and knowledge management.
- To disseminate information about the project and its results to actors and stakeholders along the food supply chain, to opinion leaders/regulators, the media, farmers, professionals working in agriculture and food manufacture, educators, and other multipliers, food and drink industries (including SMEs), consumer organisations, the scientific community and the general public.
- To facilitate collaboration, information exchange and interaction between different actors and organisations involved in the control and management of mycotoxins in the food supply chain through training, consultations and webinars.
- To develop exploitation plans, including a business model, to ensure the use of the project outputs among the farming and industry end users, opinion leaders, decision makers, etc. and to establish and verify a robust business model for the MyToolBox e-platform.
- To establish international cooperation in research and innovation for mycotoxins and in particular with partners from China across all WPs including the initiation of a formal EU-China dialogue through an EU-China Mycotoxin Forum as part of the MyToolBox activities.
Management team
- WP leader: Mag. Michaela Pichler, ICC
- Deputy WP leader: Oonagh McNerney, IRIS