Objective Space missions in Earth orbit have demonstrated that men can survive and work in space for long durations. However, there are pending technological, medical and psychological issues to be solved before adventuring in longer duration space missions. Furthermore technological breakthroughs, e.g. in life support systems and recycling technologies are required to reduce the costs of these expeditions. Solving these issues will need scientific and technological breakthroughs of interest for clinical and industrial applications and also allow identifying the relevance of these questions to health issues on Earth. Despite existing ESA or NASA studies or roadmaps Europe still has no scientific and industrial roadmap. The THESEUS objective is to develop an integrated life sciences research roadmap enabling European human space exploration in synergy with ESA, taking advantage of the European expertise and identifying the potential of non space applications and dual research and development. It will (1) identify disciplinary research priorities; (2) focus on fields with high terrestrial application potential; (3) build a European network as the core of this strategy. This will be achieved by setting-up and coordinating 15 Expert Groups of European and international experts, ensuring that complementary expertises are gathered and that experts coming from non European countries and from the industrial sectors are included. They will be asked to develop their activities and recommendations based on the scenario proposed by ESA Space Exploration Architecture (human presence in Low Earth Orbit, return to the Moon and human exploration of Mars). The work plan is structured to develop a survey of the state of the art, an improved focus on the relevance of the relevant research for current and upcoming health challenges on Earth and otential bio-medical application, a detailed set of disciplinary priorities and an integrated roadmap providing strategic orientations for research. Fields of science natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyspace explorationnatural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyplanetary sciencesnatural satellites Programme(s) FP7-SPACE - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Space Topic(s) SPA.2009.2.1.01 - Space Exploration Call for proposal FP7-SPACE-2009-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CSA-CA - Coordination (or networking) actions Coordinator FONDATION EUROPEENNE DE LA SCIENCE EU contribution € 484 789,73 Address QUAI LEZAY MARNESIA 1 67080 Strasbourg Cedex France See on map Region Grand Est Alsace Bas-Rhin Activity type Other Administrative Contact David Weber (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS France EU contribution € 66 611,78 Address RUE MICHEL ANGE 3 75794 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Denis Fix (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV Germany EU contribution € 48 783,44 Address LINDER HOHE 51147 Koln See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Monica Muench (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data MEDES-INST MEDECINE PHYSIOLOGIE SPATIALE France EU contribution € 52 051,22 Address Clinique Spatiale, Avenue Jean Poulhes 1 31403 Toulouse See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Géraldine Denat (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data STUDIECENTRUM VOOR KERNENERGIE / CENTRE D'ETUDE DE L'ENERGIE NUCLEAIRE Belgium EU contribution € 44 113,96 Address AVENUE HERRMANN DEBROUX 40 1160 Bruxelles / Brussel See on map Region Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Griet Vanderperren (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD United Kingdom EU contribution € 109 718,87 Address FIRTH COURT WESTERN BANK S10 2TN Sheffield See on map Region Yorkshire and the Humber South Yorkshire Sheffield Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Tracey Swift (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data