Ausschreibungen European Food Safety Authority

This open call aims to support the future integration of gut microbiome data into food safety risk assessment of dietary xenobiotics. The project will systematically appraise existing evidence and identify microbiome-relevant biomarkers and respective in vitro models and assess the feasibility of future experimental validation. The outcome will support future regulatory decisions and progress towards microbiome-informed risk assessments.

The aim of this call is to seek support for the development of a novel strategy for allergenicity risk assessment (RA) of proteins in food and feed. For both clinically-relevant cross-reactivity and de novo sensitisation, the project foresees the development of open source in silico prediction/appraisal tools to be validated with experimental data; assessment of future prospects for in silico tools; estimation of thresholds of allergological concern, and the development of a systematic tiered approach with a decision-making framework. This novel strategy will enhance the reliability and speed of allergenicity RA and support process simplification and harmonisation, ultimately enabling better-informed risk management decision-making.

The project aims to streamline and harmonise the implementation of chemical grouping to support human risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals. Its main tasks are to map EFSA’s current and future needs, identify relevant data types and sources (including traditional toxicological data and emerging technologies) as well as practices and approaches (such as AI-driven data extraction), and define key aspects for efficient data collection and appraisal. The expected outcome is a compendium of existing data types, sources and approaches, accompanied by recommendations for an operational strategy, ideally utilizing automated solutions to enable consistent and effective chemical grouping across EFSA’s domains.

EFSA aims to obtain the acquisition of services to coordinate the logistical and administrative aspects involved in the development and delivery of EFSA’s virtual and physical scientific training modalities and to coordinate the development and transformation of content materials into effective self-paced courses through a series of structured steps, including instructional design and course development, all tailored to meet established learning objectives. EFSA also aims at obtaining support for account management activities related to EFSA’s learning activities and presence on the selected EFSA’s external virtual learning platform. This is meant to ensure a solid support to the EFSA Subject Matter Experts (SubMEs) who have the responsibility to produce and deliver the scientific content for training courses. Overall, the call will contribute towards supporting the dissemination and implementation of harmonised methodologies for risk assessment (as described on EFSA Guidance documents), across the EU and internationally.

The project seeks tenders for scientific and technical support to develop harmonised and standardised metagenomics protocols and analytical frameworks for the regulatory risk assessment of complex microbial mixtures. The project will establish laboratory and bioinformatics methods and produce recommendations for integration of metagenomics approaches into EFSA risk assessment workflows to support safety evaluation and future guidance development.

Methodological support for literature reviews for evidence-based scientific assessments. Such support may be requested to perform and/or appraise full or part(s) of systematic reviews, as well as scoping and narrative literature reviews.

The successful tenderers will be required to support the EU bodies above in various social research activities, including EU-wide primary and secondary data collection, data analysis, the implementation of ad-hoc surveys and digital user experience research.

To find technical support for the development of the Animal Welfare Data Hub using an archive of source codes and instructions that will be made available by EFSA. The Data hub should be tailored to meet the specific needs of the animal welfare community, incorporating relevant terminology, data standards and IT functionalities. The development of the data hub will be an iterative process, creating consecutive versions, with EFSA being consulted and providing continuous feedback.

The objective of the procurement procedure is to identify a contractor which will be responsible for the development, organisation and delivery of training activities under the EFSA European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship Programme, supporting EFSA in the management of the training programme delivered to fellows throughout their participation to the programme.

The objective of the procurement procedure is to identify a contractor which will be responsible for the development, organisation and delivery of training activities under the EFSA European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship Programme, supporting EFSA in the management of the training programme delivered to fellows throughout their participation to the programme.