The EU Scientific Steering Committee for Expo, chaired by Franz Fischler, met on 11 December for the 4th time since its creation in March 2014. A major portion of the meeting was devoted to the final approval of the discussion document on "Global food and nutrition security and the role of research in the EU: a discussion paper." This document should not only be distributed among the EU institutions, relevant International Organisations and Ministries in the EU member states, however, a public consultation of the document will be launched on this website in the beginning of March. A Scientific Launch Event based on the 7 research challenges of the document will take place on 8 May at the Expo Conference Centre in Milan.