Project description
European research on environment and health impacts
Public health, quality of life, and vulnerable groups are negatively affected by climate change, pollution and environmental degradation. Healthy environments can have positive impact on life, as well as social and political benefits. The EU-funded HERA project will advance an environment and health research programme by adopting an integrative and systemic method considering global environmental changes. It will encourage decision-making and help accomplish the improvement and protection of ecosystem quality and human health. By identifying opportunities and obstacles, it will help detect health and environment-related policy areas and propose strategies and instruments engaging stakeholders. It can also improve the coordination and cross-fertilisation of ideas. HERA will also focus on knowledge transfer to countries with limited environment and health research activities.
Objective
Environmental degradation and pollution, climate change, and the destabilization of the ecosystem biodiversity, damage health and quality of life, and affect socially disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. Negative outcomes can be balanced by positive effects that healthy environments, such as green and blue spaces, can have on human and ecosystem health. Socio-economic costs are significant and public policies could develop preventive actions. HERA will set the priorities for an environment and health research agenda in the EU by adopting a holistic and systemic approach in the face of global environmental changes. Research will support decision-making and help attain the ultimate goal of protecting and improving ecosystem quality and human health. HERA will identify both the environmental opportunities for health improvements and the major environmental problems and challenges. This ambitious objective will only be possible through a close and continuous interaction with numerous and diverse stakeholders in the wider environment and health area. HERA specifically aims: 1) to proactively identify key sectors and policy areas in the field of environment and health that will benefit from additional scientific evidence in the next decade; 2) to develop a European medium-term research and innovation agenda covering key strategic research and policy aspects; 3) to propose strategies and tools to respond to the new and continuing challenges in environment and health nexus, by ensuring the engagement of stakeholders, increasing coordination and cross-fertilisation of ideas, and contributing to the European environment and health process and policy activities. HERA is structured in workpackages addressing policy needs, knowledge gaps, establishment of new guidelines, stakeholder community consultation and establishment of the research agenda. A specific activity focuses on knowledge transfer towards countries with less active research in environment and health.
Fields of science
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiespublic policies
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Funding Scheme
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
75654 Paris
France
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Participants (24)
08036 Barcelona
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94700 Maisons Alfort
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75015 PARIS
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10691 Stockholm
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00790 Helsinki
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85764 Neuherberg
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546 36 THESSALONIKI
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WC1E 7HT London
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601 77 Brno
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1211 Geneve
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3584 CS Utrecht
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1090 Wien
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1000 Ljubljana
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3721 MA Bilthoven
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D07 EWV4 Dublin
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75794 Paris
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
66860 Perpignan
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75007 Paris
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90-019 LODZ
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2400 Mol
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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3810-193 Aveiro
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1210 Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode
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Participation ended
1 Dublin
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.