Descrizione del progetto
Approfondire il nesso globale esistente tra clima, plastica e resistenza antimicrobica
In tutto il pianeta l’interazione tra cambiamenti climatici, inquinamento da plastica e resistenza antimicrobica rappresenta una profonda minaccia per la salute di persone, animali ed ecosistemi; eppure, la nostra comprensione del modo in cui queste crisi interagiscono fra di loro è fortemente limitata. Alla luce di tali premesse, il progetto TULIP, finanziato dall’UE, mira a svelare le complesse connessioni tra l’inquinamento da plastica e la resistenza antimicrobica nell’attuale contesto influenzato dalle mutazioni del clima. In particolare, il progetto si avvale di metodi avanzati per comprendere i fattori trainanti e le politiche in tal ambito, progettando al contempo soluzioni basate sulla comunità. TULIP trasforma le prove in strumenti di ausilio alle decisioni promuovendo soluzioni di tipo «tripla vittoria» per la salute degli esseri umani e dell’ecosistema. Coinvolgendo comunità, politici ed esperti, il progetto concentra l’attenzione sugli ambienti acquatici delle Filippine e dell’Italia e prevede di esercitare un impatto a livello paneuropeo.
Obiettivo
Interconnections between ecological and societal systems facilitate compounding impacts of climate change, environmental plastic pollution and proliferation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on the health of people, animals and ecosystems on a planetary scale. Current knowledge on interactions between these three crises in the Earth’s natural systems and their impact on health is highly restricted. TULIP will apply a transdisciplinary socio-ecological systems thinking approach, robust environmental science methods, epidemiology, modelling, sampling design and state-of-the-art molecular tools to generate scientific evidence on plastic-AMR interactions. It will describe spatio-temporal dynamics and patterns of plastic-associated AMR under a changing climate and the compounding health and ecological impacts. It will employ the methodology of intervention and social sciences to explore social driving factors and current policies and design and evaluate community-based interventions and nature-based solutions. TULIP will convert created evidence to modelling-based decision-supporting tools that approximate co-benefits to human and ecosystem health, indicators and environmental policy recommendations highlighting triple-win solutions and foster the science-policy translation using an integrated knowledge translation framework. Aiming to ignite a lasting societal change toward health-promoting environments, TULIP will engage communities, citizen scientists, policymakers and experts from multiple sectors in research, co-design, co-implementation, communication and dissemination processes. TULIP will focus on aquatic environments as they create a milieu for interactions, transport pathways and exposure interface and showcase its approach in the Philippines and Italy and translate to a pan-European scale.
Campo scientifico
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacydrug resistanceantibiotic resistance
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinatore
69120 Heidelberg
Germania