Health impacts of climate change, costs and benefits of action and inaction

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

Programme Description

Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-HLTH-2021-ENVHLTH-02-03

Call

Health impacts of climate change, costs and benefits of action and inaction

Summary

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.

Detailed Call Description

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.

Call Total Budget

€60,00 million

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

100%

EU contribution per project:€ 10,00 million

Thematic Categories

  • Environment and Climate Change
  • Health

Eligibility for Participation

  • Associations
  • Educational Institutions
  • NGOs
  • Non Profit Organisations
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions

Call Opening Date

22/06/2021

Call Closing Date

21/09/2021

National Contact Point(s)

Research and Innovation Foundation
Marinos Fotiadis
Contact Phone: 22 205 048
E-mail: mphotiades@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/

Ioannis Theodorou
Contact Phone: 22 205 038
E-mail: itheodorou@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/

(Publish Date: 02/08/2021-for internal use only)

EU Contact Point

European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/research-and-innovation_en#contact