The EuroFIR Network of Excellence (NoE) will provide the first comprehensive pan- European food information resource, using state-of-the-art database linking, to allow effective management, updating and comparability. This will form an essential underpinning component of all food and health research throughout Europe.

EuroFIR has 5 strategic objectives:

1. To strengthen scientific and technological excellence in food composition databank systems by integrating at the European level the critical mass of resources and expertise needed to provide European leadership in this field and establish itself as a world force in this area.

2. To identify and provide new information for missing data for nutrients and bioactive compounds with putative health benefits, and covering all food groups including traditional, ethnic minority, novel, high-added-value and prepared foods.

3. To spread excellence and enhance the impact of the network in food composition databanks and public health nutrition beyond the boundaries of the partnership, through training and sharing of methods and facilities.

4. To communicate with and enter into dialogue with all user and stakeholder groups, in order to establish and deliver user and stakeholder requirements for sustainable and durable food databank systems.

5. To disseminate and exploit new scientific and technological knowledge in order to strengthen the competitiveness of the European food industry, including SMEs, aiming to help the European food and nutrition industry to grow into a knowledge-based industry, targeted at evidence based healthier food production.