The consortium of Traceability projects held a press briefing during the EC's Research Connection conference in Prague, Czech Republic, on 8 May 2009.

Representatives from the Traceability projects held a press briefing during the EC's Research Connection conference. The aim of the conference was to provide participants information on -and show successful experiences related to- three major EU research and innovation programmes, which included the Seventh Framework Programme for research 2007-2013 (FP7), the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and the Structural Funds 2007-2013 (SF).

Even though the Traceability projects are all a part of the Sixth Framework Programme, we were invited to give a press briefing under Food Research to highlight outputs from the projects and the synergy that can be gained when projects work together to disseminate results. The projects represented were TRACEBACK, SIGMA CHAIN, TRACE, PRO SAFE BEEF, BIOTRACER and CHILL-ON.

The press briefing was successful with a good amount of participation from the press pool and with praise from the EC that this group of projects has formed a consortium.

For more information about the conference, you can go to www.ec.europa.eu/research/rtd-2009.