Description du projet
La science ouverte pour des environnements sains dans les communautés transfrontalières
Il est primordial de comprendre comment l’environnement affecte la santé humaine, en particulier dans les communautés à revenu faible ou moyen situées près des frontières internationales, afin de les aider à concevoir et à mettre en œuvre des solutions d’adaptation et d’atténuation. Il est essentiel d’impliquer les communautés dans ce processus, mais, souvent, elles ne disposent pas d’un accès à l’information ni des connaissances scientifiques suffisantes. Le projet MOSAIC, financé par l’UE, vise à établir des écosystèmes d’information ouverts et reproductibles pour les communautés transfrontalières dans deux biorégions: l’Afrique de l’Est et l’Amazonie, toutes deux fortement affectées par le changement climatique, les phénomènes climatiques extrêmes et la dégradation de l’occupation des sols. Le projet fonctionne selon les principes de la science ouverte et implique la coproduction et l’utilisation de données et de connaissances. Trois zones d’étude transfrontalières serviront de sites de laboratoire. L’ambition de MOSAIC est de contribuer à la création d’environnements favorables à la santé.
Objectif
Planetary health requires a better understanding of the reciprocal negative effects and co-benefits between environmental changes, degradations and human health. This holds at all levels. Local communities of low- and medium-income countries, living in cross-border zones, face both the negative effects of environmental changes and degradations, impacting their health and well being, and particular socio-political contexts that enhance their vulnerability.
MOSAIC states that these populations can be best suited to interpret and exploit complex and multi-thematic information about their surroundings, in order to identify and understand the impacts of the environment on their wellbeing and to develop locally feasible, acceptable, and sustainable adaptation and mitigation solutions. However, usually, access to information is weak and local communities do not necessarily have the required scientific literacy skills to fully benefit from it.
MOSAIC aims to design and implement open, multimodal and replicable information ecosystems intended to support cross-border communities to i) understand the impacts of the environment on their well-being, ii) build a health-promoting environment, iii) influence public debate, public policies and public decisions.
It relies on the Open Science principles, making: i) participatory and data sciences work together, with multiple disciplines and stakeholders, ii) scientists and society co-produce and make use of data and knowledge, with shared values.
It will consider two bio-regions particularly affected by climate change, extreme climatic events, and land cover degradation, East Africa and the Amazon, with three cross-border study areas as “laboratory sites”. These study sites allow for implementation and evaluation of project developments, the testing of the reproducibility and reusability of methods, data and tools, and the facilitation of inter- and transdisciplinarity through the joint mobilisation of a multidisciplinary team.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
13572 Marseille
France