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SFN News & Events Archive

Old (but still interesting) News & Events


Event

SFN/SAQN Online Networking Event
Ammonia, Agriculture & Air Quality

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Date: 30th June 2022; 11.30-12.30 UTC

We are teaming up with colleagues at the STFC Air Quality Network (SAQN) for an online networking session to share ideas around the theme of ‘Ammonia, Agriculture & Air Quality’. The session is aimed at anyone with an interest in air quality and agriculture who would like to make interdisciplinary connections with others in the community.
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Dr Daniel Gerber (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) will share an overview of their research into measurements of ammonia in agricultural chicken sheds. We will then hear a series of lightning presentations from other participants, which might highlight some research, present further questions or share some recent work.

SFN Agrifood Innovation Webinar
1 million heads are better than one - Unlocking your data with citizen science

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Date: 26th April 2022; 14.00-15.00 UTC

Dr Hugh Dickinson from the Open University outlines how Citizen Science can make a meaningful contribution to our food systems by unlocking Big Data analysis

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Proof of Concept Call Launch 2022

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Date: 10th March 2022; 14.00-15.00 UTC

Find out about call priorities and grant information for the SFN Proof of Concept Call 2022, including presentations from successful projects from our 2021 call and a Q&A with Prof Sonal Choudhary
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SFN Agrifood Innovation Webinar
Re-Imag(in)ing Plants, Crops and Food

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Date: 3rd March 2022; 14.00-15.00 UTC

This SFN Agri-food Innovations webinar focuses on applications of a hyperspectral camera system that meets the demands of static sampling and remote sensing when mounted on an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). It will provide details on the system’s set up – both in lab and on field, the calibration procedures and the image analysis will be given with focus on applications on plant/crop health and food sustainability. Furthermore, the advantages and the challenges that hyperspectral systems face will be discussed and potential use of this technology on the food sector will be further analysed.
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​SFN Funding Plans for 2022 

As we're now into the 3rd year of our current term (& the 6th year of the overall SFN programme) we've decided to focus on ways to help existing collaborations that the SFN has facilitated. Within this there will still be many opportunities for new members to be a part of these activities and to contribute to existing partnerships but we think it's import to try and help the people that we've already brought together to take their ideas to the next level. We intend going about this in a variety of ways - through specifically focused sandpits & workshops and through a further round of Proof-of-Concept funding.  We will of course distribute further information about each event/opportunity through our newsletters and this website so keep your eyes peeled!

SFN ECR Internship Awarded

We're delighted to announce Rajneesh Dwevedi, PhD student at Amity University in Utter Pradesh, as our first SFN ECR Intern. Rajneesh will be working with Dr Melina Zempila at RAL Space on 'Species identification using sRGB image technology for field based biomonitoring of agricultural ecosystem' .

We're also extremely pleased that Dr Zempila has agreed to lead a webinar focusing on how these types of technologies can help the food system - We'll update here shortly with further details and how to register to attend.

Proof of Concept Project Awards

We've recently completed the reviews for applications to our Proof of Concept awards scheme. We're delighted to be able to award 4 projects as follows:
  • 'Integrating environmental, spatial, and social data to assign food supply chain functions across urban space'   PI  Daniel Evans (Cranfield University)
  • 'The potential of brown rice for improving health: Investigating the bioaccessibility of its key constituents, and barriers and drivers to consumption' - PI Dr Manoj Menon (University of Sheffield)
  • 'From nutrition to flavour: novel food and food ingredients from microalgae' - PI Yixing Sui (University of Greenwich) 
  • 'Monitoring tropical pollinators in conventional and organic fruit orchards year-round in central Thailand' - PI Dr Alyssa Stewart (Mahidol University Thailand)
We'll soon be updating the project section of our website to tell you more about these exciting new endeavours!

COP26 Hackathon Results 

We ran the STFC Food Network+ COP26 Hackathon between the 2nd and 5th November on the topic  ‘Designing an analytics platform for supporting sustainable livelihoods and climate resilient small scale farming’. 

We are pleased to announce our joint winners from the UK and India. Please join us in congratulating: Mr Samuel Bancroft from the University of Leeds, UK and Team Revive led by Ms Shamia Aftab (SAP Labs India) along with her team members Mohiuddin Amanulla Chishty (Infosys) and Venkat Reddy P S (SAP Labs India)

Samuel is part of the Climate Impacts research group at the University of Leeds and he’s also part of the CDT SENSE.  You can find out more about Samuels work here.

Shamia is a Senior Support Engineer with a bachelor's degree focused in Medical Electronics from Visvesvaraya Technological University.  Shamia is currently pursuing a Master's in Data Science And Machine Learning at PES University. Find out more here 

We are now looking forward to working with the winning teams for developing an open source platform for small scale farmers through Project TRANSSITioN and CSA providing us access to more than 200,000 farmers. Exciting times! 

Get in touch with us through stfcfoodnetwork@sheffield.ac.uk if you want to contribute or would like to be involved.
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Joint Winner - Samuel Bancroft
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Joint Winner - Shamia Aftab (leader of Team Revive)

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Catch up on the SFN COP26 Festival

​We're delighted to be running our SFN COP26 Festival alongside the UN Climate Change Conference.
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You can go to our dedicated COP26 Webpage to see:
  • an expert panel discussion focussing on Innovations for Carbon Neutral Food Systems, featuring contributions from academics, industry and policymakers;
  • an Agrifood Innovations Webinar exploring how STFC's expertise in high precision instrumentation can help make our food system more sustainable;
  • Updates on our Hackathon to design an analytics platform for supporting sustainable livelihoods and promoting climate resilient small scale farming;
  • a Virtual Exhibition of our work to make food systems more sustainable
  • an Interactive Map showing the global reach of our Scoping Projects

And we are extremely pleased to have been ​represented by SFN Liaison for Knowledge Exchange Dr Ifeyinwa Kanu of IntelliDigest  in the green zone @COP26 - Where Dr Kanu had the opportunity to talk to attendees about sharing the importance of empowering global food sustainability.
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Courses

IntelliDigest/SFN
Knowledge to Action Masterclasses - FREE to SFN Members

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Date: multiple dates throughout October
Delivered by experts handpicked from different sectors across the globe, these Knowledge to Action masterclasses will equip food system stakeholders with the requisite knowledge and skills to mitigate food sustainability challenges whilst improving profitability.

Topics include:
  • Tech and Data as Enablers for Sustainability in the Food System
  • Life-Cycle Thinking and your Supply Chain for Sustainable Food Production
  • Food Safety for a Sustainable Food System

The course  is available on the IntelliDigest website.

SFN members can access these course FREE of charge in the month of October (use promotional code FKTA100 when registering)


Food Industry Sustainability Brochure
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IntelliDigest & SFN
Knowledge to Action Masterclasses

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The STFC Food Network+ is delighted to team up with IntelliDigest to deliver a series of Knowledge to Action masterclasses to support food system stakeholders mitigate food sustainability challenges whilst improving profitability. Each masterclass will be delivered by experts handpicked from different sectors across the globe.

As part of the course on tech and Data as enabler for food sustainability, we will be keen to feature projects funded by STFC thereby, highlighting to the course participants the potential in technology innovations. If you are interested in presenting your SFN Scoping Project, please get in contact with STFC Food network.
 
In recognition of World Food Day on October 16th and counting down to COP 26, we will be offering the courses for FREE to SFN members in the Month of October.
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Webinar

Escape Citizen Science Workshop - Follow links below to register

15th-17th July 2021

Summary
This summer ESCAPE Citizen Science will be running our second online ESCAPE and EOSC Future Citizen Science workshop over three days. If you have a big dataset that could be usefully mined by human volunteers, then we’re keen to hear from you. At the workshop, you will learn from domain experts how to build a citizen science project from scratch using your data and the Zooniverse citizen science platform. Two hands-on hackdays will allow you to apply the skills you have learned with experienced project builders in attendance to help you get up and running quickly and easily.

Our first workshop focussed primarily on the scientific interests of the ESCAPE collaboration partners and provided a pedagogical introduction to deploying citizen science projects on the Zooniverse platform. We would like the second workshop to have a much broader scientific and social-scientific remit, so we are inviting expressions of interest from members of the STFC Food Network. Do you have a Big data analysis that is particularly difficult to automate? Perhaps citizen science can help.

Anyone interested in participating is encouraged to register via an INDICO page that we have created for the event.
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/24676/

Delegates who simply wish to attend and those who would like to build new citizen science projects using datasets that they already have in hand can register at:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/24676/registrations/2899/

Any delegate who would like to deliver a short (approx. 15 minute) presentation about a successful citizen science project they have run in the past can register as a speaker here:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/24676/registrations/2900/ 


Conference

SFN 4th Annual Conference 2021

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13th-14th July 2021
Summary
Many thanks to everyone who joined us for the 4th Annual Conference of the STFC Food Network+. Ourr first annual meeting as SFN 2.0 included keynote talks from Prof Robin May (Chief Scientific Advisor at the Food Standards Agency) and Swati Saxena (Scientific Advisor at FCDO India); a funding opportunities webinar with speakers from BBSRC, EPSRC, NERC, STFC, and Innovate UK, and BMGF; the pre-launch of the inaugural SFN Call for Proof of Concept Projects (up to £30k) and ECR internships; and updates from our funded scoping projects

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Webinar

SFN AgriFood Innovations Webinar 4
Capturing Value from Food Chain Information

Thursday 29th June 2021

Speaker: Dr Raymond Obayi (Alliance Manchester Business School and STFC Food Network+ Liaison for Food Policy)

Summary
Well-designed data analytics solutions allow food chain actors to utilize data intelligently to address emerging business and policy challenges (traceability, visibility and smart analytics). Given the global scope of most food chains, it is crucial to explore policy and business innovations for linking up food chain information to enable efficient and responsive supply chain operations that use real-time insights to drive performance, meet customer needs and improve operational efficiency. To consolidate valuable data from multiple sources into smart and interactive dashboards for intelligent decision-making, policy innovations for food chain data management are required to overcome the challenges of data silos, interoperability and traceability. This seminar explores data trusts as a core innovation for harnessing the power of food chain data.


Webinar

IntelliDigest/SFN
Consumer Behaviour & Dietary Choice

Date: 18 June 2021; 13.00-16.00 BST
To coincide with World Gastronomy Day, this webinar looks at how consumer behaviour affects food sustainability and how the industry acts upon the rise in more healthy diets and the rise of vegetarianism and veganism.
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Webinar

SFN 2.0 AgriFood Innovations Webinar 3
Towards a more resilient and sustainable food system devoid of waste

Date: 27 May 2021; 14.00-15.00 BST
Speaker: Dr Ifeyinwa Kanu

Find out how an innovative SFN Scoping Project - led by IntelliDigest CEO, Ifeyinwa Kanu - is using STFC capabilities to reduce food waste
Watch now!

Webinar

SFN 2.0 Virtual Sandpit 2021

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Our 2nd Sandpit as SFN 2.0 took place from 16th - 22nd June 2021. It attracted huge interest with more than 120 participants taking part in at least one theme over three days. The Sandpit had a prominent international dimension with many participants joining us from across Asia and Africa. The Sandpit produced 21 very high quality proposals across the following three themes:
  1. One Health Food (Beyond GHGEs)
  2. Food Systems, Technologies and the Ocean
  3. Innovations for Small Scale Food Producers

Winning Projects

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Webinar

SFN 2.0 AgriFood Innovations Webinar 2
So many worlds, so much to do; what data science can do for you

Date: 22 April 2021; 14.00-15.00 BST
Speaker: Jens Jensen STFC Hartree Centre

Find out how STFC Data Science capabilities are helping to build more resilient food systems

Now available on the SFN Youtube Channel

Webinar

SFN 2.0 AgriFood Innovations Webinar 1
Shining Light (and neutrons) on Food

Date: 23 March 2021; 15.00-16.00 GMT
Speaker: Claire Pizzey - Diamond Light Source

The first webinar in the SFN AgriFood Innovations Series provides an overview of the UK central research facilities at the Harwell Campus in South Oxfordshire and their relevance to the food and agri-tech sectors. You will find out how food and agri-tech companies benefit from the UK investment in these large scale infrastructure for advanced analytical characterisation: what can it do and how can it benefit your business?
Now available on the SFN Youtube Channel

SFN+
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STFC Food Network+ Asia Launch Event

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15th April 2021 - 09.00-10.00 BST
Find out about our global community of Agrifood researchers and technologists and learn about collaborative, networking, and funding opportunities for Asia-based researchers and industry.

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STFC Food Network+ Africa Launch Event

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14th April 2021 - 13.00-14.00 BST
Find out about our global community of Agrifood researchers and technologists and learn about collaborative, networking, and funding opportunities for Africa-based researchers and industry.

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IFST Food Waste Webinar Series: What about the packaging?

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10th March 2021 - 11.00-12.00
This webinar will provide information on what constitutes food packaging waste, the producer responsibilities around such waste and which food businesses might have a packaging obligation.

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Funding Success: Developing novel powder products for the nutraceutical sector

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A meeting at the SFN Virtual Sandpit in July 2020 gave rise to this collaboration and ultimately resulted in a successful SPRINT-funded project. The project aims to turn food waste into new, premium products that are rich in fibre, nutrients and nutraceuticals.
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Funding Success: Healthy soil, healthy food, healthy people

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Huge congratulations to SFN/N8 AgriFood members who have been awarded funds to help transform the UK food system. The £6m project focusing on improvements to sustainability and resilience within horticulture, hydroponics and hybrid farms.
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Funding Success: Transformations to Regenerative Food Systems

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Huge congratulations to SFN/N8 AgriFood members who have been awarded funds to help transform the UK food system. The project will look at interventions in food retailing and farming to address issues such as childhood obesity, sustainability in agriculture and global warming.
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Satallite Applications Catapult - UK-Turkey building strong partnerships within agriculture, food and drink

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9th February 2021 - 10.00-12.30 GMT
This event will explore the opportunities to optimise the Turkish Agriculture Food and Drink industry through building ecosystems across borders that deliver innovations to identified supply chain challenges.

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IFST Food Waste Seminar Series: Managing Waste at the consumer interface

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4th February 2021
This webinar considers the waste/loss occurring at the consumer-facing end of the value chain - the speakers cover retail and hospitality aspects of waste management.

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Farming for Change Report Published by FFCC

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The Food, Farming and Countryside Commission has published Farming for Change: mapping a route to 2030. The report introduces new research showing agroecology can produce enough healthy food for a future UK population and explores how this new technical modelling challenges and places new technologies at the centre of the solution.
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Food Industry Innovation 2021 – Food, Nutrition & Health

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3-4th March 2021
Excellent opportunity for SFN scoping projects to showcase their work. This KTN event is for people involved in innovation in the food and drink community, including start-ups, SMEs, academics, researchers and established businesses of all sizes.
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New Scientist Live: Future of Food & Agriculture

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28th November 2020 
SFN+ Members can get free access to this virtuak event (normally £15). Just click on the button below:

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Protein powerhouse: can this plant break our reliance on soybean? ​

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The world has a protein problem – and one that will only get worse. Our over-reliance on soybean for animal feed is unsustainable and threatened by climate change. A project supported by the SFN could have the solution: an unremarkable-looking plant you have probably never even heard of. ​
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Sweet success – a new technology to help honey producers ​

Whether drizzled over porridge or used to treat a sore throat, honey is one of our most cherished food products. In the UK, honey consumption is steadily rising but competition from cheaper imports and barriers to entering the ‘premium’ honey market could stop UK producers from benefitting. A project funded by the SFN is helping to address this by applying a pioneering spectroscopic technique for a new use in the honey industry ​
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New way of cooking rice removes arsenic and retains mineral nutrients, SFN scoping project shows

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An SFN scoping project found that over half of UK rice exceeds limits on arsenic for children. They have now released a new way to cook rice which removes the arsenic but not nutrients.
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Precision Livestock Farming and Sensing Technology in Extensive Grassland Systems Webinars

17th and 19th November 2020 
These two 90 minute webinars will focus on the use of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) approaches in extensive systems. PLF techniques and novel sensing technologies are having a major impact on the management of intensive systems to improve efficiency, reduce disease and improve welfare.

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Explore How Farmers Produce Food Responsibly

Online/Anytime
On this course, you’ll gain a better understanding of where our food comes from, how it’s produced, and the associated environmental, social and sustainability challenges for EU farmers. As well as horticulture and arable farming, you’ll explore meat, dairy, and egg production, as you examine different farming systems. You’ll also learn about the innovative technologies available to farmers to boost sustainability so that you can better understand farming challenges, and how farming relates to your food purchases.


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Photonics for AgriFood - Webinar

24th November 2020 
​Photonics is an underpinning technology with application in a wide range of end-use sectors. Photonics is a key enabler across industrial challenges from the digital economy to autonomous transport, provides innovative healthcare technologies for rapid disease detection, and is essential for Industry 4.0.

​Speakers from industry and academia will highlight the latest developments and KTN will provide an overview of the landscape and funding opportunities for each area.
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Innovation in Arable Farming: Technologies for Sustainable Farming Systems

19th October 2020
This is a FREE, three-week online programme exploring evidence-based information that outlines the benefits and challenges of adopting new technologies within the EU. You will learn from farmers who have adopted agri-tech on their farms to enhance production, while meeting environmental and social responsibilities, and hear how they overcame any barriers to adoption.​​
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SFN Scoping Projects Announced

October 2020
We were are delighted to annouce the 17 projects that will be funded via the SFN Scoping Project Call 2020. You can find out more about the projects via by following the link below
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Food2030 Conference - Transforming Food Systems through Research and Innovation

16th October 2020
Researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, food system stakeholders and citizens are invited to exchange and debate ideas on how Research and Innovation can accelerate the transformation of food systems, and contribute more to the evidence-base for strengthening their governance. The event is co-organised by the European Commission’s FOOD2030 team, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the German EU Presidency.
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Escape Citizen Science Workshop

2-4 December 2020
Attendees will learn how to build citizen science projects that will enhance the quality and impact of their research. They will learn about the advanced technologies that can be coupled with their projects to improve accuracy and efficiency. They will also learn how citizen science can be used in conjunction with machine learning to generate training data and refine the predictions of trained machine learning models.
Workshop recommended by Dr Hugh Dickinson (SFN Liaison for Data Science)

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SFN Newsletter - Sept

September 2020
The newsletter includes an update on SFN activities, links to recorded and forthcoming events, and a list of active funding opportunities. Click the link below to download the September edition.
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SFN Blog - 2020 Sandpit Winners: Adapting food systems to work with uncertainty

In our last blog post, we told the story of how the STFC Food Network+ (SFN) didn’t let a global pandemic stop the most recent Sandpit from going ahead by transitioning the whole event online for the first time. Although this gave a very different experience to the usual, in-person format, this clearly didn’t impact the quality of the proposals which resulted from the discussions. Here we feature the winning projects for each theme, which were decided by democratic vote to receive £10K each in funding. 
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SFN Sandpit Winners Announed

July 2020
Congratulations to the 3 winning projects from our Virtual Sandpit 2020.

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SFN Blog - Innovation under lockdown: the SFN Sandpit goes virtual!

Even the most interactive events based on networking and group discussion can be successfully run online – as the recent STFC Food Network+ (SFN) virtual Sandpit demonstrated.
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SFN Call for Scoping Projects 2020 - Now closed

UPDATE: UK-based scoping projects can now be funded at 100% FEC up to a maximum of £8k. Projects led by partners in ODA-listed countries in Africa and Asia can be funded up to a maximum of £10k (100% FEC)

Our call for collaborative scoping projects for £500 - £10,000 is now open. This call is open to all projects that bring together STFC capabilities and food research and industry. You can download a copy of our application form here [if you don’t use google docs then just go to ‘File’ and select ‘Download as’ ‘Microsoft word(.docx)’]. To help you think of new ideas and prepare, we would like to remind you that you can access the SFN handbook here. If you have part of an idea and aren’t sure how to link up with the relevant food or STFC-side people, please contact the relevant SFN Champion. We hope you will consider applying to this call so we can fund a diverse range of exciting new projects. Please send your application forms to stfcfoodnetwork@sheffield.ac.uk

New Champions Announced

We are extremely pleased to welcome our new team of champions and liaisons for SFN 2.0. You can find out more about them on our website (click here). Thank you to all of you for your work on the Virtual Sandpit. You all did a fantastic job!
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SFN Newsletter - July

July 2020
The newsletter includes an update on SFN activities, links to recorded and forthcoming events, and a list of active funding opportunities.
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SFN Blog - Saving Soils with Satallites

Satellite technology could help us start to reverse the perilous condition of our soils…
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Future Funding Opportunities - Webinar

Friday July 10th, 3.00-4.15pm

UKRI contacts presented future grant opportunities & SFN released call for scoping projects.
Presenters slides are available via this link.

Virtual Sandpit 2020 - Webinar

Thursday July 9th, 3.00-4.30pm
Webinar 1 - We ran a webinar in preparation for the Virtual Sandpit. Please note that this webinar is for shortlisted sandpit participants only. SFN Champions/ Liaisons presenting challenges/ STFC capabilities.

Call Open for Virtual Sandpit 2020

Dates: 15, 16, 17, & 21 July 2020
Deadline for Applications – 30 June 2020
The first call under SFN 2.0 seeking expression of interests for virtual sandpit to fund projects up to £10,000 is now open. This year’s sandpit is focussed on “Food Systems in the UK and Beyond: Navigating Through Uncertainties.” The details about the schedule, various themes and application form can be found here. This call is open to all participants from STFC capabilities, food systems research, industry and policy makers across the UK, Asia and Africa to come together for collaborative projects. To help you think of new ideas and prepare, we would like to remind you that you can access the SFN handbook here. If you have part of an idea and aren’t sure how to link up with the relevant food or STFC-side people, please contact the relevant SFN Champion. We hope you will consider applying to this call so we can fund a diverse range of exciting new projects. We will aim to confirm all those successful in securing a place for the sandpit by 06 July 2020.


SFN Blog - Going against the grain – making rice safer 

Visit our blog page to find out all about SFN Scoping Project 'Arsenic Detection and Distribution in Rice Plants Using High Resolution X-ray Imaging' led by Dr Manoj Menon. You can also see the paper that Manoj had published on this topic here
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EFRA-commissioned report on the Impact of Covid19 on UK food supply chains

May 2020
SFN was invited by EFRA to provide a written evidence on Covid 19 impact on the UK food supply chains. SFN conducted a quick response research on the Impact of C19 on Beef and Dairy Supply Chains and produced a report for EFRA. This research was led by Dr Sonal Choudhary and co-led by other SFN liaisons: Dr Raymond Obayi (SFN Liaison for Food Policy Analysis), Rakesh Nayak (SFN Liaison for Manufacturing Industries), Dr Seyed Ebrahimi (SFN Liaison for Resilient Supply Chains), Dr Panayiota J Alevizou (SFN Member), Dr Graeme Heron (SFN Member). This report was reviewed by Mr Geoff McBride - Theme Leader for Global Food Security, Agri-Tech & Water at STFC.
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New Champions Needed

As part of the vision for our new extended Network (SFN 2.0) and with sincere thanks to all of our SFN 1.0 Champions for the fantastic job they did (Stephen, Simon, Christian, Sonal, Diogo, Seb and Sarah) we’d like to invite ‘Expressions of Interest’ (EoIs) from you, our members, to join us as Champions for our new term. Find our more and apply through our champions page 

New SFN CoInvestigators and Steering Committee

Following our initial kick-off meeting with our new Steering Committee and CoInvestigators we’d like to introduce this new team to you - You can find out all about the people that will be helping us to achieve our network aims, advising and mentoring us for the next four years here
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SFN Review on 21st Century Abattoirs for FSA

Oct 2019
SFN led a Review on 21st Century Abattoirs which resulted in a £250K MoU between STFC & FSA for running sandpit in Oct 2019 and funding projects worth £20K-£70K. The review was led by Dr Sonal Choudhary and co-led by other SFN liaisons: Dr Raymond Obayi (SFN Liaison for Food Policy Analysis), Rakesh Nayak (SFN Liaison for Manufacturing Industries), Dr Seyed Ebrahimi (SFN Liaison for Resilient Supply Chains), and Dr Panayiota J Alevizou (SFN Member)
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