JPI healthy diet for a healthy life

TThe overall aim of the Joint Programming process is to pool national research efforts in order to make better use of Europe's precious public R&D resources and to tackle common European challenges more effectively in a few key areas. It is a structured and strategic process whereby Member States agree, on a voluntary basis and in a partnership approach, on common visions and Strategic Research Agendas (SRA) to address major societal challenges. The ambitious major goals of JPI HDHL are as follows: 1. The coordination of the scope of research programmes across Europe and reducing duplication of efforts. 2. The allowance for easier to address common challenges developing suitable solutions with the same objective concerning food, nutrition and active life policy in the international arena while taking into consideration cultural diversities among countries. 3. The promotion of scientific excellence through joint activities with common funding and peer-review processes to minimise fragmentation of research activities and to use public resources more efficiently and effectively improving the accountability and transparency of public research programmes. 4. The support of cross-border collaboration and facilitation of data pooling and their collection in a uniform and standardised way. 5. The sharing expertise scattered across countries or throughout Europe as a whole promoting creation of a critical mass, cross-border mobility and training to facilitate timely dissemination and translation of research results to inform public health practice and policy. 6. The increase of the scientific, technological and innovative impacts of public investments in research by strengthening the coordination with other related policies through greater programme visibility and promotion of cross-border policy learning. JPI HDHL participating countries are 19: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, New Zeland, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, , Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom. JPI HDHL will launch each year one or more calls to finance specific projects.