Project description
Understanding PFAS-climate change connections through data studies
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent pollutants affected by climate change. Flooding and drought can mobilise PFAS in coastal areas. European countries, particularly Denmark, are investing in data to understand these connections, but research remains limited. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the PF-ARCHIVE project will explore how climate-exacerbated PFAS data influences governance of ‘combo disasters’ in Denmark. It will examine the development of PFAS data infrastructures by researchers and companies and their impact on coastal communities. The project will analyse daily work at a Copenhagen research centre and will examine how various stakeholders, including politicians and farmers, use this data. It will also highlight the management of cumulative hazards within knowledge infrastructures.
Objective
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), often called “forever chemicals,” are among the most persistent pollutants and, as emerging science shows, are exacerbated by climate change. New pathways include mobilization of concentrated PFAS in coastal soils and sea spray during flooding, drought, and extreme winds. European countries—especially Denmark—are investing in data infrastructure to better understand climate-exacerbated PFAS. Critical data studies highlight the limits of fragmented, “chemical-by-chemical” regulation, yet few examine the infrastructures linking PFAS and climate impacts. Likewise, environmental governance scholarship traces jurisdictional and temporal divisions that hinder climate action but rarely considers intersections with toxic chemicals. PF-ARCHIVE proposes a qualitative study of how climate-exacerbated PFAS is made into a data object and infrastructure, modulating governance of “combo disasters” across temporal and spatial scales. Methodologically, the project employs ethnographic fieldwork and digital archiving to examine how Danish researchers and enterprises develop PFAS data infrastructures and how these are emplaced in diverse coastal communities. It will trace the daily work of scientists at a new PFAS research center in Copenhagen and how politicians, farmers, and advocacy groups use data in two rural and urban-coastal Danish settings. Through an ethnographic account of climate-exacerbated PFAS as a data object shaped by exceptional timescales—and an analysis of how related infrastructures reshape relationships and conceptions of place in affected coastal communities—PF-ARCHIVE will show the challenges and significance of “combo-disaster” knowledge infrastructures in a strong regulatory setting. PF-ARCHIVE thus advances the social sciences and the public interest by showing how combinatory and cumulative hazards are handled across data infrastructures, places, and governance regimes.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
You need to log in or register to use this function
Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
-
HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
MAIN PROGRAMME
See all projects funded under this programme
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
See all projects funded under this funding scheme
Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2025-PF
See all projects funded under this callCoordinator
Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
2300 KOBENHAVN
Denmark
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.