Report on COMFOCUS Logical framework of food consumer science

Task 51 MS14 aims to provide a COMFOCUS Logical framework on food consumer science to identify relevant concepts their relations and interactions The COMFOCUS Logical framework will align the communication between scientific partners and it serves as a fundament for the next tasks in WP5 WP4and WP6 The content of the COMFOCUS Logical framework addresses the scientific subdomains partiesorganisations that are active and their relations and interactions and unambiguous vocabulary harmonisation of terminologyTo foster discussion agreement on practical tools to document the framework like Microsoft Visio PowerPoint choice of standard modelling methodseg flow diagrams lay out is necessary Next step is to define the different viewsperspectives that have to be developed for usersstakeholders of this framework to identify relevant concepts eg consumerproducts environmentculture relations and interactions how do these concepts determine and influence consumer behaviour Afterwards and internally the draft results will be published on the COMFOCUS intranet WP2 so that the content are at all times available for discussion by all partners First approved version will be ready in M5 after the COMFOCUS Kick Off meeting M2 where the first lines of thinking will be introduced During the timeframe of COMFOCUS new insights will be added so it will be a framework in evolution In M14 the COMFOCUS Logical framework serves the launch of the Open Calls with a common understanding and by identifying gaps in this understanding From M24 it is expected that the framework will be in a draft final stage and will be published on the COMFOCUS Knowledge platform open for broad discussion in the panEuropean Community