Food Quality and Safety

INTRODUCTION
The TrainNet Future project was approved under the “Food

Quality and Safety” thematic priority of the EU 6th Framework

Programme for Research and Technology Development (FP6),

with the overall objective to raise the quantity and quality of

research projects under the coordination or with participation of

researchers from the New Member States (NMS) and the

Candidate Countries (CC).
This brochure was prepared under the auspices of TrainNet

Future, in order to make visible and introduce the most important

food research institutions of the New Member States (Cyprus,

Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia,

Slovenia) and Candidate Countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey)

participating in the project. By providing the contact data of the

listed organizations our aim is to encourage the European partners

to begin or to enlarge their cooperation with these excellent

institutions, with the potential of valuable, innovative joint

research proposals for the EU 7th Framework Programme, thus

contributing to the completion of the European Research Area.
More details on the TrainNet Future project can be found on the

last pages of this brochure. Here you can also find the data of the

national contact points (in all 25 partner countries), who would be

glad to assist you in facilitating contacts and find the best partner

for you among the researchers of their country.
We hand over this booklet to you with the firm hope that our

efforts will widen your knowledge on the presented food research

institutions and will provide useful assistance to all researchers

and research institutions interested in finding contacts and

developing cooperation with similar partner institutions in other

countries, especially in the NMS and CC.

We do hope that the new contacts and the possible cooperations

established with the help of this brochure will contribute to the

achievement of our common goal: to find and ensure the most up-

to-date means and ways for safe and high-quality food supply.

The TrainNet Future Consortium

Coordinated by the

Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation

1027 Budapest, Bem Jozsef u. 2.,

Tel: [phone], fax: [phone]

e-mail: [e-mail]

http://trainnetfuture.tetalap.hu
LIST OF THE MOST IMPORTANT R&D ORGANIZATIONS

FROM NEW MEMBER STATES AND CANDIDATE COUNTRIES

IN THE AREA OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

BULGARIA
1. AGROBIOINSTITUTE

Contact person: Prof. Atanas Atanassov

Address: 8 Dragan Tsankov Blvd. 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria

Tel [phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Web www.abi.bg

Areas of interest: development of systems for direct and indirect

in vitro regeneration and somatic embryogenesis of economically

important crops; genetic transformation (direct and indirect gene

transfer) for crop improvement; development and application of

SSR and TD markers in Vitis sp., Rose sp., small fruits, barley,

wheat and maize; development of specific calibration models for

NIRS detection of genetically modified plant material (GMO) by

Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS analyses); gene bank of

vegetatively propagated species; development and adoption of a

strategy documents on biosafety (GMO laws); development of

systems for enforcement and monitoring, public information and

public participation, development of national biosafety database
2. SERICULTURE EXPERIMENT STATION

Contact Person: Dr. Panomir Tzenov, senior researcher

Address: 24 Mito Orozov Str., Vratza 3000, Bulgaria

Tel + 359 888 479438

Fax + 359 924 5154

E-mail [e-mail]

Areas of interest: genetic research on breeding technology for

improvement of new silkworm lines/races and hybrids; silkworm

egg production technology; prevention and silkworm diseases and

pest control; mulberry selection and cultivation; cocoon and silk

processing; sericulture economics and management
3. INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

Contact person: Prof. Lazar Kozelov, Director

Address: 2232 Kostinbrod, Bulgaria

Tel [phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]; [e-mail]

Areas of interest: genetics (investigation of the chromosome

anomalies by computer methods for preventing the use of defect

genomes for breeding); reproduction (artificial insemination and

transplantation of embryos); sheep wool investigation; methods

for ecological and biological breeding of cattle; selection program

for fertile poultry; genetic, breeding and feeding of poultry;

experimental farms
4. RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN

STOCKBREEDING AND AGRICULTURE

Address: 281 Vasil Levski Str., 5600 Troyan, Bulgaria

Tel [phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Areas of interest: livestock breeding, forage production, fruit

growing, agricultural economics, environment protection and

conservation; theoretical research in genetics, breeding,

reproduction and genetic biotechnologies; methodological basis of

applied projects for breeding, elaborating of systems for

environment-friendly livestock and plant production; sheep

crossbreeding for obtaining highly productive stock by means of

improving the Tsigai breed using the Romanovska, Perendale and Drysdale

breeds; creating crosses of high lambing percentage and

growth intensity; embryo transplantation and laparoscopic

insemination methods; improving the fertility and productivity

performance of sheep, goats and cattle
5. ASSEN ZLATAROV UNIVERSITY,

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
Contact person: Assoc. Prof. Tconka Godjevargova

Address: Prof. Yakimov Str. 1, 8010 Bourgas, Bulgaria

Tel [phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Areas of interest: modification of polymer carriers (beads or

membranes), preparation of immobilized enzymes (glucose

oxidase, urease, catalase, peroxidase and acetylcholinesterase) on

synthetic polymer including polymer membranes, biomedical

polymers and their application in diagnostic and therapeutic

medicine; determination of low concentrations of heavy metals

and pesticides in waste water; biodegradation of aromatic toxic

compounds and biosorption of heavy metals by immobilized cells
6. FRESHWATER FISHERIES BRANCH

Address: 248 Vasil Levski Str., 4003 Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Tel [phone],

Fax [phone]

Areas of interest: introduction and acclimatization of new

farming fish species; selection and breeding-improving activities;

reproduction and raising of delicatessen local fish species:

sheatfish, tench, pike and crayfish; development of scientific production

parameters of polycultural fish breeding; organization,

management of fish cultures

7. UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY

Address: 10 Kliment Ohridski Blvd, 1756 Sofia, Bulgaria

Tel [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Areas of interest: anatomy, histology and physiology; animal

sciences; internal illnesses, pathology and pharmacology; surgery,

roentgenology, obstetrics, gynaecology and biotechnology of

reproduction; infection pathology, veterinary-sanitary expertise

and technology of products from animal source and management

of veterinary-medical activities

8. UNIVERSITY OF FOOD TECHNOLOGIES

Contact person: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Angel Angelov

Address: 6 Maritza Blvd., 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Tel + 359 32 603 608

Fax + 359 32 644 102

E-mail [e-mail]

Web www.uft-bio.com

Areas of interest: food science, engineering and technology; food

industry, biotechnology, tourism, catering, industrial management,

heat engineering, mechanics, equipment for the food industry,

computer systems, automation and process control; industrial

microbiology, food biotechnology, nanotechnology, enzyme

technology, fermentation technology, functional ingredients and

foods, biologically active substances, microbial derivatives,

ecological biotechnology
9. UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV

Contact person: Prof. Ivan Minkov

Tel [phone],

Fax [phone],

E-mail [e-mail]; [e-mail]

Web www.pu.acad.bg

Areas of interest: transgenic plants, molecular basis of oxidative

stress; DNA markers, bioinformatics, micro RNAs,

photosynthesis, plant growth regulators, plant tissue cultures;

genetic of honey bees Apis mellifera L. and other insects; research

on polymorphism and ontogenetic dynamics in the expression of

the soluble proteins and some isoenzymes from different tissues of

silkworm Bombyx mori
10. AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY

Address: 4000 Plovdiv, 12 Mendeleev Str., Bulgaria

Web www.au-plovdiv.bg

Areas of interest: animal sciences, estimation of the adaptive

possibilities and its use in milk cattle breeding, investigation of

composition and technological properties of the milk from the

breed Bulgarian Rodopa cattle, health risks by heavy metal

pollution in Central and Eastern Europe, heterosis effect during

the breeding of silkworm, poultry and pigs, establishment of the

nourishing capacity of forages established by geese feeding,

physiology of digestion and microflora in the ruminant cattle

rumen, use of synthetic and protein feeds, seed forages and their

participation in the animal feed of non-ruminant animals (pigs and

poultry)

CYPRUS
1. STATE GENERAL LABORATORY OF CYPRUS

Address : 44 Kimon Street, 1451 Nicosia, Cyprus

Tel [phone]

Fax [phone]

Web www.sgl.moh.gov.cy

Areas of interest: food quality, composition, adulteration &

authenticity, food additives (colours, preservatives, sweeteners,

antioxidants, etc), environmental and other food contaminants

(heavy metals, nitrates/nitrites/nitrosamines, polycyclic aromatic

hydrocarbons, etc.), natural toxins in foodstuffs (aflatoxins,

ochratoxins, fumonisins, zearalenone, trichothecenes, biotoxins,

etc), pesticides residues and PCBs in food of plant and animal

origin, veterinary drug residues in meat and food of animal origin

including aquaculture, microbiological control and monitoring of

foodstuffs, alcoholic beverages (quality, adulteration and

authenticity), food contact materials, etc

2. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Address: P.O. Box 22016, 1516 Nicosia, Cyprus

Tel [phone]

Fax [phone]

Web www.ari.gov.cy

Areas of interest: crop breeding and genetics, fruit tree and

vegetables production, viticulture, floriculture, animal production,

biotechnology and tissue culture

ESTONIA
1. ESTONIAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

Contact person: Alar Karis, Rector

Address: Kreutzwaldi 64, Tartu, 51014, Estonia

Phone [phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Web www.eau.ee

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  1.a. Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
  Contact person: Illar Lemetti, Director
  Address: Kreutzwaldi 64, Tartu, 51014, Estonia
  Phone [phone]
  E-mail [e-mail]
  Web www.eau.ee/~agt/english/index.htm
  

Areas of interest: soil productivity in agroecosystems and
forests; crop productivity and ecologically justified crop rotation
systems; analysis of land use and sustainable agriculture; weed-
crop relations in agroecosystems; sustainable plant protection
systems (natural pesticides, insect ecology)

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  1.b. Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering
  Contact person: Paavo Kaimre, Director
  Address: Kreutzwaldi 65, Tartu, 51014, Estonia
  Phone [phone]
  E-mail [e-mail]
  Web www.eau.ee/mi
  Areas of interest: silviculture -forest management, evaluation,
  genetics, tree breeding, cutting systems, silvicultural methods;
  forest productivity, modeling and ecology databases for land
  amelioration systems; assessment of the condition of agricultural
  buildings; determination of residual tensions in coatings
  
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  1.c. Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences
  Contact person: Toomas Turats, Director
  Address: Kreutzwaldi 62, Tartu, 51014, Estonia
  Phone [phone]
  E-mail [e-mail]
  Web www.eau.ee/~vl
  Areas of interest: epizoology and prevention of viral, bacterial
  and parasitic diseases; artificial insemination of animals; livestock
  reproduction, embryo transfer, in vitro fertilization techniques;
  food technology and food quality
  
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  1.d. Institute of Economics and Social Sciences
  Contact person: Rando Varnik, Director
  Address: Kreutzwaldi 64, Tartu, 51014, Estonia,
  Phone:[phone]
  E-mail [e-mail]
  Web www.eau.ee/3670
  Areas of interest: agricultural economics and policy; agricultural
  market and marketing agricultural accounting and finance; rural
  sociology; agrarian history and informatics
  

2. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTRE EVIKA

Contact person: Katrin Kotkas

Address:Teaduse6a,Saku75501,Harjucounty,Estonia

Phone[phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Web www.evika.org

Areas of interest: studies of potato meristem characteristics and

somaclonal variation of meristem clones; studies of resistance

problems of potato varieties and breeding lines; research of

productivity of potato meristem plants; research of tissue

culture and crops; preservation of plant

microcloning of horticultural genetic resources
3. POLLI HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE

Phone[phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Web www.polli.ee

Contact person: Ave Kikas, Director

Address: Polli, 69104, Karksi-Nuia,Viljandi County, Estonia

Areas of interest:

introduction, testing and evaluation of

cultivars; breeding of cultivars, especially apple, pear, plum,

sweet cherry, black currant, raspberry, and apple vegetative rootstocks;

agricultural methods in fruit production; preserving of all fruit and small

fruit cultivars of Estonian origin

4.JOGEVAPLANTBREEDINGINSTITUTE

Contactperson:MatiKoppel,Director

Address:48309,Jogeva,Estonia

Phone [phone]

Fax[phone]

[e-mail]

Web www.jpbi.ee

Areas of interest: development of cereal cultivation; program

“Milk”; potato cultivation and processing; flax cultivation and

processing; development program of horticulture
5. ESTONIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE

Contact person: Arvi Kallas, Director

Address: Teaduse 13, Saku 75501, Estonia

Phone [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Web www.eria.ee

Areas of interest: studies of crop cultivation, post-harvesting,

processing and preservation, development activities, innovation

and testing of agricultural machinery; prognosticating patterns

of agricultural technologies; producing development strategies

and technical observations of agricultural technologies;

experimentation and testing of agricultural machinery and

technologies; arranging advisory activities and advanced training

within their own competency and issuing of publications

6. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE

Contact Person: Kalle Talviste, Director

Address: Teaduse 4/6, Saku 75501, Estonia,

Phone + 372 6729137

Fax + 372 6729149

E-mail [e-mail]

Web pmk.agri.ee

Areas of interest: field tests and experiments, laboratory analyses

(determination of agricultural plant production quality, pesticide

residues and other contaminants in plant materials and in soils,

plant pest diagnoses, agrochemical analyses of soil and fertilizers,

microbiological analyses of fodder and plant production, seed

quality testing), preparing liming and fertilizing maps, good

agricultural practices and agro-chemistry researches, evaluation of

agro-environmental measures, horticultural testing activities, etc.
HUNGARY
1. CENTRAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Contact person: Prof. Dr. Diana Banati, Director General

Address: H-1022 Budapest, Herman Otto u. 15., Hungary

Tel [phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Web www.cfri.hu

Areas of interest: organoleptic testing of foods; biological,

biochemical and microstructural investigation for quality control

of horticultural products during storage; development of rapid

analytical methods based on antibody and DNA analysis to

promote food safety (allergens, GMO and authenticity testing) and

quality control; research of bio-polymers for environment-friendly

(biodegradable) food packaging; assessment of allergenic

potential of food proteins; new technologies for production of

oligo-antigen peptides

2. AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER

Contact person: Dr. Ferenc Nagy, Director General

Address: H-2100 GodollR, Szent-Gyorgyi Albert u. 4., Hungary

Tel [phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Web www.abc.hu

Areas of interest: animal biology, molecular aspects animal

development and breeding; genetics and molecular plant biology;

environmental biosafety and modern environmental technologies;

DNA synthesis and sequencing; bioinformatics
3. RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES,

AQUACULTURE AND IRRIGATION

Contact person: Dr. Laszlo Varadi, Director

Address: H-5541 Szarvas, P.O.Box 47, Hungary

Phone [phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail [e-mail], [e-mail]

Web www.haki.hu

Areas of interest: fish genetics and maintenance of gene banks;

production, fisheries biology and management of natural waters;

development of modern aquaculture systems and technologies,

structure and functioning of fish producing ecosystems, nutrition

and feeding of fish; environmental management in agriculture;

development of irrigated crop production technologies; rice

breeding and development of rice production technologies

4. RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL BREEDING

AND NUTRITION

Contact person: Dr. Jozsef Ratky, General Director

Address: 2053 Herceghalom, Gesztenyes ut 1., Hungary

Tel [phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Web www.atk.hu

Areas of interest: cattle, swine, sheep, goat and horse breeding;

biology of reproduction, cell and molecular biology and genetics;

ruminant and swine nutrition; chemical analysis and evaluation of

different feeds and byproducts; physiology of nutrition;

microbiology and feed preservation; biochemistry; utilization of

organic waste; meat quality and consumer health
5. BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTRE

OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Institute of Plant Biology

Contact person: Dr. Imre Vass, Director

Address: H-6701, Szeged, Temesvari krt. 62., Hungary,

Tel [phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Web www.szbk.hu, www.brc.hu

Areas of interest: light-and oxidative stress in plants and

cyanobacteria; genetic and molecular dissection of osmotic, sugar

and ABA signals; small Nuclear RNAs; regulatory mechanisms

in plant cell division and stress adaptation; molecular mechanisms

of light and clock-signaling pathways in Arabidopsis; from

cellular functions to plant development; biological thermo-optic

effects; macroassemblies in thylakoid membranes; functional and

structural importance of lipids in photosynthetic membranes

6. RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SOIL SCIENCE AND

AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY

OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Contact person: Dr. Tamas Nemeth, Director

Address: 1022 Budapest, Herman Otto u. 15., Hungary

Tel [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Web www.taki.iif.hu

Areas of interest: soil science, agrochemistry and soil biology,

quantitative characterization of spatial (vertical and horizontal)

and temporal variabilities of soil properties (soil mapping, soil

monitoring) with the application of up-to-date GIS facilities,

geostatistical analyses and remote sensing; determination of the

nutrient uptake and fertilizer response of the main cultivated crops

and the development of the modern plant nutrition system;

advisory service based on soil tests, plant analyses and long-term

field experiments; analyses of the role of microorganisms in soil

processes; study and assay the biogeochemical cycles of

contaminants (mainly heavy metals) and their controlling

possibilities in soil-plant systems (phytoremediation)

7. VETERINARY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Contact person: Dr. Balazs Harrach, Director

Address: H-1143 Budapest, Hungaria krt. 21, Hungary

Tel [phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail [e-mail]

Web www.vmri.hu

Areas of interest: studying genetic material, proteins and

glycoproteins and virulence of various pathogens (herpes, adeno,

paramyxo and avian-tumour viruses; E.coli and Salmonella

bacteria as foodborn pathogens); improvement of methods of

detecting infection by nucleic acid and peptide analysis;

relationship between virulence and antigenic composition of

pathogenic organisms; basic research activities on protozoa;

investigation of environmental health aspects of certain infections