Deadline: 21-Sep-21
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce the Health impacts of climate change, costs and benefits of action and inaction.
The aim of this topic is the identification, monitoring and quantification of direct and indirect impacts on human health, including in occupational settings, and related risk factors correlated to climate change, especially in vulnerable population groups such as children or in groups at risk such as workers.
Innovative surveillance tools are further required to ensure a timely response to emerging threats, to feed and strengthen early warning systems, and to enable the design, monitoring and evaluation of interventions. This may include mathematical modelling with big data and artificial intelligence (AI), remote sensing, citizen science and biomarkers of exposure or virulence.
Proposals must choose and address one of the following areas of research:
- Research on the relationships between changes in environmental hazards caused by climate change, the impacts on interrelated ecosystems and their influence on human health;
- Climate induced emergence and transmission of pathogens and spread of zoonotic pathogens using Eco-health and One Health approaches.
Proposals should include all of the following activities:
- Development of suitable indicators and monitoring mechanisms to assess the health-relevant outcomes of climate policies and actions;
- Development of predictive models and early warning systems for exposure and health impacts of climate change based on transparent assumptions and architecture;
- Development of tools for health impact and cost-benefit assessment of climate-change adaptation and mitigation measures;
- Investigation of health co-benefits of adaptation and mitigation policy measures outside the health sector;
- Demonstration of the validity of tools and methods developed in the above listed activities in policy-relevant case studies;
- Determination of the societal implications of climate change on health systems, including occupational health, and development of adaptation measures;
- Development of training materials and guidelines to educate relevant actors in citizens’ daily life on climate change health impacts and to facilitate adaptation of health systems and practices;
- Delivery of FAIR data on positive and negative health impacts of climate change, including impact on groups at higher risk or vulnerability.
Funding Information
The check will normally be done for the coordinator if the requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for:
- public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations; and
- cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (lowvalue grant).
Expected Outcomes
This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several expected impacts of destination 2 ‘Living and working in a health-promoting environment’.
To that end, proposals under this topic should aim for delivering results that are directed, tailored towards and contributing to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Global and EU climate policies, the EU Observatory for Climate and Health, and the Green Deal activities are supported with up-to-date scientific evidence;
- Public authorities and surveillance organisations have access to predictive and early warning systems for direct and indirect health impacts caused by climate-change induced events and dispose of indicators for improved monitoring of policy actions;
- Public authorities, employers and risk managers draw benefit from user-friendly tools for integrated risk assessments and cost-benefit analysis of climate change mitigation and adaptation actions to support decisions across policy sectors;
- Public and private health authorities and care providers use guidelines and training materials produced to adapt and innovate health systems and practices to prevent and mitigate climate change related health risks in cost-efficient and effective ways.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions;
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States;
- eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe;
- low- and middle-income countries.
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