PRO-METROFOOD represents the project under which METROFOOD-RI “Infrastructure for Promoting Metrology in Food and Nutrition” – listed as “Emerging project” in the ESFRI Roadmap 2016, Domain “Health & Food” – is undertaking its “Early Phase”. It has been built with the general objective to bring METROFOOD-RI from the level of ESFRI “Emerging Project” to the level of maturity required for entering in the active project list, in view of the ESFRI Roadmap 2018. In particular, during PRO-METROFOOD the strategies in the medium and long term will be designed, creating the organizational framework of the infrastructure and demonstrating the on-going opportunities to provide services in the scientific framework. In the frame of PRO-METROFOOD, pilot services will be implemented in order to demonstrate the actual capability of METRODOO-RI to deliver its services. One of the main objectives is also to integrate METROFOOD-RI in the European landscape and to position it also at a global level.

The general ambition of PRO-METROFOOD is to pave the way to the construction, implementation, operability and sustainability of METROFOO-RI. Finally, the ambition of PRO-METROFOOD is to crate, design and made sustainable a new Research Infrastructure representing a novelty in the landscape of the EU (ESFRI) Research Infrastructures, with particular reference to the “Health & Food” Domain. With the immediate goal to enter the next (2018) ESFRI Roadmap as “active” project, METROFOOD-RI would have the opportunity to complete its incubation and start the implementation within a maximum of one decade and to reach sustainability for the long term operation, therefore assuring maximum return on investment in terms of science, knowledge, innovation, training, socio-economic benefits and competitiveness.

30 Partners (17 Beneficiaries plus 13 Third Parties) from 17 European Countries participate to the project.