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Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals

Project description

Harmonising chemical risk assessments in Europe

To protect human health and the environment against hazardous chemicals, the EU-funded PARC project brings together a cross-disciplinary network of over 200 research and innovation partners across Europe, from ministries and national authorities to research organisations and academia. In line with the EU’s European Green Deal and Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability, it aims to streamline chemical risk and hazard assessment processes to ensure consistency across EU agencies and regulations. The partnership will advance scientific knowledge regarding chemical risks while building expertise in key methodologies. By fostering collaboration between authorities and researchers, it will ensure research results are effectively applied to regulatory practice and facilitate the development of national strategies to reduce chemical risks.

Objective

PARC is an EU-wide research and innovation partnership programme to support EU and national chemical risk assessment and risk management bodies with new data, knowledge, methods, networks and skills to address current, emerging and novel chemical safety challenges. PARC will facilitate the transition to next generation risk assessment to better protect human health and the environment, in line with the Green Deal?s zero-pollution ambition for a toxic free environment and will be an enabler for the future EU ?Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability?. It builds in part on the work undertaken and experience acquired in past and on-going research and innovation actions, but goes beyond by its vocation to establish an EU-wide risk assessment hub of excellence. To contribute to several expected impacts of destination 2 ?Living and working in a health-promoting environment?, PARC will organise the activities to reach three specific objectives:
- An EU-wide sustainable cross-disciplinary network to identify and agree on research and innovation needs and to support research uptake into regulatory chemical risk assessment.
- Joint EU research and innovation activities responding to identified priorities in support of current regulatory risk assessment processes for chemical substances and to emerging challenges.
- Strengthening existing capacities and building new transdisciplinary platforms to support chemical risk assessment.
The Partnership brings together Ministries and national public health and risk assessment agencies, as well as research organisations and academia from almost all of EU Member States. Representatives of Directorates-General of the EC and EU agencies involved in the monitoring of chemicals and the assessment of risks are also participating. PARC will meet the needs of risk assessment agencies to better anticipate emerging risks and respond to the challenges and priorities of the new European policies.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-HLTH-2021-ENVHLTH-03

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Coordinator

AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA SECURITE SANITAIRE DE L ALIMENTATION DE L ENVIRONNEMENT ET DU TRAVAIL
Net EU contribution
€ 22 048 387,22
Address
14 RUE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE
94700 Maisons Alfort
France
Region
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Val-de-Marne
Activity type
Research Organisations
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Total cost
€ 75 775 693,75

Participants (175)

Partners (23)