
Read more on http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Research-Institutes/lei.htm
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- LEI is coordinating RICHFIELDS, leading Management (WP1), ensuring an efficient implementation of the project
- Differentiating consumer behaviour for more sustainable and balanced diets according to socio-psychological factors (WP5, 6 and 7)
- Integrating the governance and business models (WP12, WP13)

Member companies (150 +) of DIL are from the food, feed and ingredient processing sector and from the equipment manufacture. A total of 170 researchers and support staff work at DIL. The institute has a good track record of multidisciplinary projects and is involved in several national projects, Interreg and Horizon 2020 projects.
Read more on http://www.dil-ev.de/en.html
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- DIL is leading Connecting Laboratories and Facilities (WP10), coordinating data from experimental facilities and identifying and mapping laboratories and facilities in Europe dealing with consumer behaviour issues
- Supporting the outline of the approach of assessment in WP 5-10 and synthesis of results (WP4)
- Contributing to Stakeholder Interaction (WP3)
- Contributing to Data Combining & Data Management (WP11), to the Business Model (WP12) and to Governance, Ethics and Final Design (WP13), with findings of WP10

EuroFIR AISBL also promotes international cooperation and harmonisation of standards to improve data quality, storage and access. EuroFIR AISBL draws together the best available food information from EU28 compiler organisations and, globally, from USA and Canada. Members include individuals and organisations working in dietetics, food manufacturing and retail, software development, public sector funding, regulation and academia, and have access not only to food information, but also online tools for searches, best practice, continuing professional development, networking, and pre-competitive research and development or ICT projects in the food and health fields.
Read more on www.eurofir.org
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- EuroFIR is leading Stakeholder Interaction (WP3), and contributing to Impact and
- Dissemination (WP2)
- Responsible for WP9 (Connecting with related RIs) first case study on food attributes
- Contributing to Data Integration & Data Management (WP11)
- Contributing to the Governance, Ethics and Final Design (WP13)

The main subject concerns production and control technologies, information, communication (ICT) and knowledge technologies, biotechnologies, new materials, environmental technologies, nanotechnologies, and nuclear engineering. A considerable fraction of JSI’s revenues derives from international contracts. The Institute accumulates and disseminates knowledge through the pursuit of research, development, and education at the highest international level of excellence. Close links with Slovenian Universities are maintained; many scientists, who once developed their research talents at the institute, are now appointed to teaching posts, while still retaining their research positions or leading research teams at the JSI. The Institute has a long tradition in developing collaborative partnerships with industry, which turned out a continuous stream of new products and services.
Read more on http://cs.ijs.si/
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- JSI is leading Data integration & data management (WP11) – designing and developing the RICHFIELDS data platform
- Contributing to WP6 (Preparation) on dietary assessment methodologies
- Contributing to WP9 (Connecting with related RIs) in the first case study on food attributes

The Division of Human Nutrition (HN) has a long tradition in nutrition and health research and education (BSc, MSc, PhD). The five chair groups capitalize on their joined complementary expertise by means of an integrated multidisciplinary research approach that involves the level of the cell, the individual and the population. Moreover, it covers the full causal chain from determinants of food choice, to intake of foods and nutrients which affects nutritional status and body function, and subsequently health and disease. HN has a long tradition in nutrition and epidemiology (nutritional surveillance, aetiology of chronic diseases). The Division is well equipped with the infrastructures for dietary assessment and has experience in developing protocols for a number of national and international studies. These include Food Composition Databases as well as software to describe diets in terms of foods, food groups, nutrient intake and nutrient densities.
Over several years this has resulted in a (inter)national leading position in both research and education. The Division publishes some 150 international peer-reviewed publications annually. At the Division about 180 persons are appointed, including 25 scientific staff members, 20 postdocs, 80 (inter)national PhD candidates and 40 technical and administrative staff members.
Read more on https://www.wageningenur.nl/en/project/richfields.htm
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- Leading WP7 (Consumption) – compiling an inventory and quality assessment of dietary intake tools, and identifying related gaps and needs
- Contributing to the scientific coordination, to successfully complete all aspects of the project (WP1)
- Contributing to Impact and Dissemination (WP2)
- Contributing to synthesis of consumer generated real time data from WP5-7 (WP4)

INPROFOOD) and has members on the International Advisory Boards of a further four FP6/7 projects
(EuroPrevall, SEAFOODplus, ISAFRUIT, PEGASUS). This is in addition to numerous UK projects on various aspects of consumer science.
Read more on http://www.surrey.ac.uk/psychology/research/fcbh/
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- Contributing to the scientific coordination, to successfully complete all aspects of the project (WP1)
- Leading WP4 (Methodological Support and Data Platform Design), facilitating the work across RICHFIELDS so that the results can be integrated, thus ensuring greater usability of results
- Leading WP6 (Preparation) – compiling an inventory and quality assessment of food preparation, and identifying related gaps and needs
- Leading ethics in WP13 (Governance, Ethics and Final Design)
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (previously SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden). SP Technical Reseach Institute of Sweden has merged with the institutes Innventia and Swedish ICT to create RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in order to become a stronger research and innovation partner for business and society. In global co-operation with academia, enterprise and society, RISE creates value, growth and competitiveness through research excellence and innovation.
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden is a network of research and technology organisations (RTOs), wholly or partly owned by the Swedish state. The RTOs within RISE perform industrial research and innovation. Some of the RTOs also perform testing and certification. RISE consists of four corporate groups with a total of 16 RTOs and their subsidiaries with a total of 2400 employees.
The unit of Agrifood and Bioscience conducts strategic and applied research on behalf of the agriculture and food industry and provides consultancy services within the all areas of agrifood science and technology. RISE Agrifood and Bioscience has large experience in coordinating and participating in EU projects. Two departments will be involved in the RICHFIELDS project: The department for Process and Technology Development and the department for Sensory and Flavor Science. The Process and Technology department at RISE Agrifood and Bioscience has a long experience in the development of new technologies for food processing and improvement of traditional processing. The department for Sensory and Flavor Science has long experience in the field of sensory and consumer research. They have specially trained test panels that can be used to describe and measure objectively and consistently the sensory characteristics of ingredients and products. They also have experiences from working with consumers in both novel and traditional test settings.
Read more on http://www.sp.se/en/units/risebiovet/fb/Sidor/default.aspx
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- Leading WP5 (Purchase) – compiling an inventory and quality assessment of food purchase data and collection methodologies, and identifying related gaps and needs
- Supporting WP6 (Preparation), WP7 (Consumption) and WP8 (Business-Generated Data)

Read more on http://www.en.aau.dk/
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- AAU is leading WP8 (Business-Generated Data)
- Supporting WP1 (Management), WP5 (Purchase), WP10 (Connecting Laboratories and Facilities), WP11 (Data Integration & Data Management), WP12 (Business Model)

Read more on http://javierdelacueva.es/
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- Javier is supporting WP13 (Governance, Ethics and Final Design), assessing the legal requirements of online data.

The research of the ‘consumer behavior’ group at ETH Zürich focuses on perception, acceptance, and behaviour related to new technologies, foods and the environment. One of the core topics is consumer decision-making in the domain of food products. Consumers’ attitudes towards emerging food technologies (e.g., gene technology, nanotechnology) affect consumer acceptance and public concerns.
A better understanding of these processes is crucial in making it possible for governmental agencies and industry to fulfil the needs of society. We also focus on research aiming at an improved understanding of decisions regarding healthy versus unhealthy consumption behaviours.
Read more on http://www.cb.ethz.ch/research.html
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- Integrating the experimental Fake Food Buffet (FFB) data from different research institutions into the RICHFIELDS data platform (WP10)
- Linking FFB product data to existing European Food databases (WP9.1)
- Validating a mobile application with the FFB method (WP9.1)
- Developing a standard protocol for FFB data analysis and integration of consumer-generated experimental data into the RICHFIELDS data platform (WP10)

EUFIC has been involved in over 20 EU-funded research projects since 2004, as dissemination and research partner, mainly desk or consumer research, and has acted as a coordinator in two projects, FLABEL and CLYMBOL.
EUFIC’s expertise, tools and networks enable a massive outreach to a wider audience of relevant stakeholders, such as consumer organisations, consumer scientists, food and drink industries (including SMEs), food scientist associations, health professionals, media policy makers, retail and catering sectors, public and society at a European level. As an indication of outreach, EUFIC’s website had over 10 million visitor sessions in 2014, and EUFIC’s newsletter FOOD TODAY, which exists in 12 languages, is distributed to more than 47,000 health professionals, educators, media, scientists, and other communication multipliers. EUFIC has more than 14,000 followers in its social media accounts, which include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube.
Read more on www.eufic.org
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- EUFIC is leading Impact and Dissemination (WP2)
- EUFIC is also involved in Stakeholder Interaction (WP3)

Read more on www.ifr.ac.uk
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- IFR is leading WP9 (Connecting with Related RIs)
- Supporting WP4 (Methodological Support and Data Platform Design), WP8 (Business
- Generated Data), WP11 (Data Integration & Data Management)

The Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation (ITIA-CNR), as a promoter of industrial innovation, performs strategic activities of Scientific Research and Technological Development for the
Competitiveness and Sustainability of Italian and European Manufacturing Industries. ITIA’s mission addresses specific research activities on enabling technologies, processes and products, which are integrated in a factory-level framework. ITIA-CNR, contributing and supporting the European initiative MANUFUTURE, finalised in the development of added high value manufacturing based on research and innovation, works on the development of production systems and elements for knowledge-based factories, business models and related enabling technologies in tightened collaboration with research centres, university and enterprises on national, European and international level.
Read more on www.itia.cnr.it/en
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- Leading WP12 (Business Model), designing a sustainable business model for the RI that provides value to all stakeholders
- Supporting WP3 (Stakeholder Interaction)

Read more on http://www.cens-nutrition.com/
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- Contributing to WP9 (Connecting with Related RIs), by identifying, analysing and implementing data from clinical intervention studies that could be linked to the RICHFIELDS data platform or that would feed the RICHFIELD data platform.

Helsinki School of Economics, University of Art and Design and the Helsinki University of
Technology previously known as TKK. TKK was the largest, oldest, and most diversified university of technology and architecture in Finland. TKK is now renamed as School of Science and Technology. Currently, School of Science and Technology has four faculties made of 25 departments with 250 professors and 15,000 under- and postgraduate students. The Department of Communications and Networking (Comnet) was established in 2008 on the basis of the Networking Laboratory that was founded in 1944, and the Communications Laboratory founded in 1966. Comnet gives the highest level teaching in networking technology, traffic theory, networking business, communications and information theory and radio communications systems. Comnet has currently 9 professors and more than 100 staff members. Comnet research is focused on all aspects of communications and networking, as well as business and user aspects of the technology and services.
Read more on http://www.aalto.fi/en/
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- Supporting WP9 (Connecting with Related RIs), leading case study 4 that will collect data related to food intake in addition to information about exercise, stress and sleep behaviour (through the PRECIOUS platform)
- Contributing to WP11 (Data Integration & Data Management)

Today, GS1 offers more than just the barcode for identifying goods when purchasing them at the supermarket. GS1 has developed and implemented “advanced barcodes” for offering the supply chain more information, for various purposes e.g. lowering food waste by enabling mark-down pricing up to an edible goods’ best before date. Furthermore, GS1 has developed 2D barcodes used for marking pharmaceuticals with the purpose of authentication (anti-counterfeiting), traceability and recalling. What collects all of this data is our global databases that the retail sector and its suppliers are implementing globally. An increasing focus on regulation animates the business to use these global data pools for listing not only logistic info but also nutrition facts and allergens (ref. EUR/1169/2011). Furthermore, GS1 is developing a global database environment where relevant event data can be collated – i.e. for monitoring the temperature of a transport of livestock cattle “from farm to fork”.
Read more on http://www.gs1.dk
Role in RICHFIELDS:
- Contributing to WP8 (Business-Generated Data), WP11 (Data Integration & Data Management), WP12 (Business Model)