Positioning in the European Research Area

One of the crucial achievements of the RECETOX and the TEAMING project was the acceptance of new international Research Infrastructure of EIRENE RI, coordinated by RECETOX, in the 2021 Update of the ESFRI (European Strategic Forum on Research Infrastructures) Roadmap. This document listed EIRENE RI as one of the ESFRI priority project.

In 2020, we brought together the leaders of the EU and US Environment & Health research to advance new scientific developments and establish a large-scale interdisciplinary research providing harmonised workflows covering all processes between the data and sample collection and knowledge provided to the end users (sampling strategies, experimental and bioinformatic tools) accessible to academic researchers, private companies, public authorities and citizens through the EIRENE open-access system and the EIRENE knowledge hub.

The EIRENE RI proposal built on the legacy of the European environmental monitoring networks and their databases (EMEP, GMP, GMOS), GEO Initiatives (GOS4POP and GOS4M) and related H2020 projects (ERA PLANET, e-SHAPE), EU biomonitoring initiatives (DEMOCOPHES, HBM4EU), UNEP/WHO global biomonitoring efforts, EU exposome (HELIX, EXPOSOMICS, HEALS and EHEN cluster) and other related projects (HERA, EURION cluster).

For now, the EIRENE RI consortium consists of the leading universities and research institutions from 15 EU countries, UK and US, where most countries are represented by the leader of their national node and one or more Linked Third Parties (the Memorandum of Understanding signed by 17 national node leaders represents 50 institutions).

Many countries have already launched their national EIRENE Hubs and the other are planning so.

More information about the EIRENE RI is available at www.eirene-ri.eu