Presentation of the Implementation Action Plan of the Italian Microbiome Initiativema Initiative
Microbiomes are ecological communities found in humans, plants, animals, soils and sediments; they seem to be interconnected and to jointly contribute to the safe growth and health of all living organisms of our planet. A group of experts identified in 2018 by the National Committee for Biosafety, Biotechnology and Life Sciences (CNBBSV) of the Presidency of Council of Ministers (http://cnbbsv.palazzochigi.it/en/ ) prepared a vision document on the potential role of microbiomes in the agrifood systems and human health (eg, Vision document “Italian microbiome initiative for improved human health and agro-food production” http://cnbbsv.palazzochigi.it/media/1712/microbioma-2019.pdf) and, more recently, the “Action Plan for the industrial implementation of the Italian microbiome initiative for improved human health and agro-food production” (available at http://cnbbsv.palazzochigi.it/media/2020/implementation-action-plan_microbiome_2872020-flg.pdf) in close cooperation with the national Technology Clusters ALISEI and CLAN and 16 among the most prominent Italian industries from the health and agro-food system domains. The latter has been shared with all major Italian industrial associations of the sectors mentioned and revised according the suggestions received. It will be formally presented and further discussed with all major European and international organizations working in the sector during the present event.
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Draft Agenda
10.30 Welcome (Chairs: Andrea Lenzi, President CNBBSV and co-coordinator of the Italian Microbiome initiative and Fabio Fava, CNBBSV and co-coordinator of the Italian Microbiome initiative)
Representative of the Presidency of Council of Ministers TBC
Minister of Health or his representative TBC
Diana Bracco, President of the National Technology Cluster on health ALISEI
Luigi Scordamaglia, President of the National Technology Cluster on agrifood CLAN
11.00 Technical session
11.00 Presentation of the IAP, Fabio Fava
11.20 The view of the industry (Chairs: Patrizia Brigidi, Cluster CLAN & Enzo Grossi Cluster ALISEI)
Pietro Grossi, AlphaSigma
Andrea Costa, SIIT
Gilberto Litta, DSM
Mauro Fontana, Soremartec/Ferraro (TBC)
12.00 Comments and recommendations from European and international institutions (Chairs: Andrea Lenzi e Fabio Fava):
Peter Wehrheim, DG RTD, European Commission
Callens Karel and/or Anna Katrin Bogdanski, FAO
James Philps and/or David WINICKOFF, OECD
Joel Dore, INRAE “Health Microbiome” CSA, TBC
12.40 Discussion
13.00 Conclusions
Filomena Maggino, President of “Cabina Benessere Italia”, Presidency of Council of Ministers & Andrea Lenzi