EARNEST has
committed itself, as part of its implementation plan, to establish an
"Early Nutrition (Programming) Academy" (ENA). The aims of the
Academy are to:
foster nutrition
research and its standards, in particular as it relates to nutrition
in women of childbearing age, infants and children, including basic
science, epidemiology and applied nutrition, as well as standards of
nutrition practice
foster nutrition
education
provide training in
research skills
communicate research
findings (e.g. by provision of an abstract service)
foster
implementation and dissemination of knowledge
help shape EU policy
help transfer
knowledge and technology to commercial users
reach out over and
beyond the membership of EARNEST
Early Nutrition Academy
All these goals are essentially
the same as EARNEST so why establish an additional Early Nutrition Academy?
The advantages of the Academy are that it will be able to extend the EARNEST
activities (e.g. training activities) beyond the EARNEST partnership. It will
also be able to form a legal entity that can raise funds from sponsors to
support and enhance the training and research activities beyond what EARNEST can
achieve and that will survive beyond the lifetime of EARNEST. It will be
able to continue to support research collaboration (including the preparation of
research applications, e.g. for FP7), training, and scientific communication.
