This work package aims to monitor and evaluate the activities and deliverables of the program and ensure effective and efficient achievement of the objectives of the program. In order to achieve the above, quantitative and qualitative indicators will be determined from the beginning.
Main activities:
Task 1 - Development of the evaluation methodology and assessment procedures based on the tools available in www.european-project-management.eu
Task 2- Online version of the questionnaires for the evaluation of outcomes, events, meetings, etc with the use of Survey monkey which allows the direct statistical analysis of the results
Task 3 - Internal evaluation reports of the deliverables, processes, partnerships and other events
Task 4 - Pilot seminars addressed to the end users for the evaluation of the deliverables
Task 5 - External evaluation of deliverables
WP1 – Project Management and coordination refers to the administrative, financial and quality aspects related to the project implementation. In the frame of WP1 a detailed Project strategy and methodology will be defined in order to ensure an effective day-to-day Project Management. Moreover the tools for communication between all partners will be established. Apart from the regular project management tasks, the activities described in WP1 will allow the monitoring of the project performance, results and risk management.
Main activities:
Task 1: Creation of administrative regulations/ the partnership will adopt the new Financial Survival Kit which is available online on the site of EACEA as well as the tools which are available in www.european-project-management.eu (with the necessary adoptions to the needs of the project).
Task 2: Establishment of the communication system between partners.
Task 3: Interim and final report
Task 4: Financial and progress reports
The second project meeting will take place in Fano, Italy during the period 26-28 of May.


2nd Annual World Congress of Nutrition and Health 2014 (WCNH-2014), October 24-26, 2014, Taiyuan, China: http://www.bitlifesciences.com/wcnh2014/default.asp

Fourth International Conference on Food Studies, 20th to 21st October 2014 - Prato, Italy

More information: http://food-studies.com/the-conference

International Conference on Agricultural, Ecological and Medical Sciences (AEMS-2014) scheduled on July 3-4, 2014 London (United Kingdom) aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Agricultural, Ecological and Medical Sciences, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
More information http://www.iicbe.org/2014/07/05/47

The Mediterranean diet emphasizes:
The diet also recognizes the importance of being physically active, and enjoying meals with family and friends.
"First of all the doctor should look at the patient’s face. If he looks his usual self this is a good sign. If not, however, the following are bad signs – sharp nose, hollow eyes, cold ears, dry skin on the forehead, strange face colour such as green, black, red or lead coloured. If the face is like this at the beginning of the illness, the doctor must ask the patient if he has lost sleep, or had diarrhoea, or not eaten."
From "On forecasting diseases".

The celebrated Tree of Hippocrates has a new life on the National Institutes of Health campus and a new place in 21st century science.
A Tree of Hippocrates clone was planted in front of the National Library of Medicine on April 25, 2014. And the first gene sequence of the tree, which can be used for scientific research, was unveiled during the dedication ceremony.

According to legend Hippocrates, regarded the father of modern medicine, taught students under a tree on the Greek island of Cos. When the library was dedicated in 1961, the Greek ambassador presented NLM with a cutting from a descendant of the Cos tree. The tree was planted the following spring. In the 1980s, NIH landscape architect Lynn Mueller detected signs of deterioration from weather and a fungal disease. He spent decades trying to restore the tree’s health while also exploring the possibility of a clone. He eventually connected with the Champion Tree Project, now the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive. Using cuttings from the gift tree, Archangel produced the clone that was planted. It replaces the gift tree which never recovered and was removed last year.
"The National Library of Medicine and this tree grew up together," said NLM Director Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD. "My thanks go to the NIH and the people who looked after this tree and anticipated the need for cloning."