Integrating Environment and Health Research: a Vision for the EU (HERA)
Description:
The overall aim of the HERA project is to set the priorities for an environment, climate and health research agenda in the EU.
Research is expected to support decision-making at all levels and to help attaining the ultimate goals of protecting and improving ecosystem quality and human health.
Therefore, HERA partners and stakeholders will identify through holistic, systemic and inclusive approach both the environmental opportunities for health improvements, and the major environmental problems and challenges that need to be addressed urgently.
Key objectives are to:
- Establish efficient communication and coordination with major stakeholders
- Identify key sectors and policy areas in the field of environment and health
- Develop a European medium-term research and innovation strategy and agenda
- Respond to the new challenges in E&H, and contribute to the European E&H process and policy activities
- Disseminate outcomes from HERA to the scientific community, the public and the relevant stakeholders
- Build the European Research Community on Environment Climate and Health
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Project information
Lead
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE
Partners
FUNDACION PRIVADA INSTITUTO DE SALUD GLOBAL BARCELONA, Spain
AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA SECURITE SANITAIRE DE L ALIMENTATION DE L ENVIRONNEMENT ET DU TRAVAIL, France
INSERM TRANSFERT SA, France
STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET, Sweden
SUOMEN YMPARISTOKESKUS, Finland
HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT GMBH, Germany
ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS, Greece
LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE ROYAL CHARTER, United Kingdom
Masarykova univerzita, Czechia
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, Switzerland
UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT, Netherlands
MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN, Austria
INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN, Slovenia
RIJKSINSTITUUT VOOR VOLKSGEZONDHEID EN MILIEU, Netherlands
INSTITIUID TEICNEOLAIOCHTA BHAILE ATHA CLIATH, Ireland
TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY DUBLIN, Ireland
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS, France
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES POUR L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET L'AGRICULTURE, France
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT, France
BIURO DO SPRAW SUBSTANCJI CHEMICZNYCH, Poland
VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V., Belgium
UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO, Portugal
HEALTH AND ANVIRONMENT ALLIANCE HEAL AISBL, Belgium
NATIONAL COLLEGE OF IRELAND, Ireland
Source of funding
Horizon 2020
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Published in Climate-ADAPT Oct 29 2020 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Apr 04 2024