II° PRIORITY ISSUE @LIS. Pilot Project SEARCH FOR PARTNERS e.learning in cultural diversity See: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/alis/index_en.htm SKILL SHORTAGE ACTION PLAN (see: http://www.edscuola.com/archivio/lre/alis/index.htm) Content: FOOD QUALITY & SAFETY Dear Partners , the SKILL SHORTAGE proposal for the call @LIS aims to improve an international incubation facilities and appropriate promotional means growing up a partnership consortium in Knowledge Management (K.M.) networking for e.learning among Universities and SMEs aiming to support SMEs competitiveness in the internationalisation of production and retailing into the evolution of global communication system. Henceforth for SMEs competitive strategy it will be important to open a priority issues for a K.M. innovation in some multidisciplinary issues of SKILL SHORTAGE TASKS for developing a innovative ACTION PLAN . The second priority issue that the LRE/EGO-CeaNET will open to a debate concerns the thematic priority of : FOOD QUALITY & SAFETY for improving traceability processes along all production and transformation chains . The issue of FOOD QUALITY & SAFETY for the future ability to co-operate in a international context of SMEs marketing between Europe and Latin American Countries and for getting successful to this goal it will be necessary reinforcing a web-based multidisciplinary co-operation among Universities and SMEs . In fact Foods TRACEABILITY means to trace food from FARMS to FORK through all stages of production and distribution. As a matter of facts All Stages means that , in the next market and marketing future, it will be indispensable a complete transparent commercial sustainable environment inclusive of primary agricultural production food up to its transformation and sale or supply to the final consumer consumption. The ability to trace down animal or agricultural foods origin through bio-technology DNA fingerprinting to any further food chain transformation today constitute an extremely relevant web-based data system for the quality foods certification and in respect to the safety of people all over the world. Hence the growth of foods Traceability systems it will be important for SKILL BUILDING of new team professions because need a multidisciplinary and multi enterprise net-working approach that need to integrate scientific , legal and productive capabilities co-operating in a way to be able to reply to a quick and efficient retrieval of transparent information finalised to guarantee and to control and to certificate the quality and safety of any food. For the above reasons the SLILL SHORTAGE @LIS proposal of EGO-CreaNET/LRE of NET-Learning in a cultural diversity , will develop an Action Plan for skill foresight in the field of FOOD TRACEABILITY , aiming to support a K.M. innovation anticipating the identification of future needs of SMEs responsibility and decisions in food standards traceability at the international level for improving a transparent productive and commercial environment in the global market place. I hope that partners will debate this II° ACTION PLAN TASK on FOOD QUALITY & SAFETY that is considered a strategic priority for K.M. of the future SMEs & University co-operation. See for instance: http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/index_en.html : http://www.globefish.org/presentations/Trazabilidad/slide11.htm See also: http://www.edscuola.com/archivio/lre/ogm2.html ;http://www.edscuola.com/archivio/lre/sicurezza_alimentare.html http://www.edscuola.com/archivio/lre/cibo.html http://www.edscuola.com/archivio/lre/agritraccia.html My best regards to all . Paolo Manzelli P.S. The ACTION PLAN debate of the @LIS project will be developed the following four thematic priorities of the SKILL SHORTAGE Net-learning pilot project see: http://www.edscuola.it/archivio/lre/alis/index.htm 1) Knowledge Management innovation of SME's on innovation in science & technology 2) Knowledge Management innovation of SME's on food quality & safety traceability 3) Knowledge Management innovation of SME's on bridging gap of "digital divide" 4) Knowledge Management innovation of SME's on "eco-economic" sustainability Very Cordially Paoolo <LRE@UNIFI.IT> -- Director of LRE // EGO-CreaNET PAOLO MANZELLI <LRE@unifi.it> http://www.chim1.unifi.it/group/education/index.html Education Research Laboratory / EGO-CreaNET Via Maragliano 77 -50144 - Firenze - Italia Tel//Fax.:+39/055/332549 ; handy GSM ;+39//335/6760004