Selection of hosting sites and fellows for EU-FORA (European Food Risk Assessment) Fellowship Programme

The European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship (EU-FORA) Programme was established to help achieve one of EFSA’s strategic objectives: Strengthening the food risk assessment capacity (including animal health and plant health) and knowledge community across Europe. The EU-FORA programme will establish a regular 12-month learning-by-doing fellowship, the objectives of which are to attract and motivate mid-career professionals to become risk assessors, thus increasing the pool of experts available in Europe; intensify exchange and cooperation among national food safety agencies and EFSA, hence stimulating the involvement of MS in regulatory risk assessment work; contribute to harmonising and further developing food safety risk assessment practices and methodologies across Europe, with the aim of building a common EU culture for risk assessment.