PRORISK

Best chemical risk assessment professionals for maximum Ecosystem Services benefit

PRORISK = 10 beneficiaries and 11 partner organisations

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PRORISK Consortium Meeting & Stakeholder Workshop

October 2023News

We are pleased to invite you for the Workshop with stakeholders and Consortium meeting organized within the PRORISK project on 2 – 4 October 2023. The Workshop will be held in a hybrid form – in person in Amsterdam and online.

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September 2023

Audrey’s summer secondment at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Our ESR, Audrey Phan, spent her summer secondment at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA). She was working with Pim Leonards, Marja Lamoree, Lisa Bauman, and Lara Hofer. Her stay was focused on investigating the intricate cross-talk between retinoic acid signaling and thyroid hormone disruption at the tissue and organ levels. About his research and experiences, you can read in his short report.

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September 2023

Susan's secondment at NIVA Copenhagen

Our ESR, Susan Oginah, spent her hybrid secondment at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) from May to July 2023. She was working with Knut Erik Tollefsen and Jes Rasmussen. Based on available datasets, the main aim of her secondment was to define the boundary conditions of different methods for linking the ecotoxicity effect to species loss. You can read her experiences in this short report.

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July 2023

Niamh O’Connor Secondment to RIVM

Our ESR, Niamh O’Connor, spent a week of her month-long hybrid secondment at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in June 2023. She was working with Leo Postuma and Colleagues. Her stay was focused on exploring whether applying more ecological context to traditional SSDs could offer insights into chemical effects on ecological functions. You can read her experiences in this short report.

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June 2023

Elvia's secondment at University of Waterloo - Ontario, Canada

Our ESR Elvia Rufo Jiménez spent her secondment at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) last fall. She worked there with Dr. Roy Brouwer and the Water Economics Research Group (WERG) at the Water Institute. Her stay was focused on research regarding people's values and perceptions of the adverse effects of skin-sensitizing chemicals on human health. You can read her experiences in this short report.

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May 2023

Our students were a part of SETAC 2023

We were a part of the SETAC 33nd Europe annual meeting 2023 in Dublin. Prorisk organized one session – 7.11 Towards the next generation ERA – Integrating Mechanistic, Ecological and Socio-Economic Information. Our students presented their work there. It was very beneficial and great to see each other.

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May 2023

Diana's secondment at NIVA

Our ESR Diana Ilyaskina spent her hybrid secondment in February 2023 with NIVA - Norwegian Institute for Water Research in Oslo, Norway. She focused on learning about Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP) development. You can read her experiences in this short report.

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May 2023

Kelsey's secondment at RECETOX

Our ESR Kelsey Ng spent his secondment at Recetox in Brno, Czechia. Kelsey performed a case study in collaboration with our ESRs Chander Kant Negi and Audrey Phan.The study involved an investigation on the environmental occurrence of flame retardants in the Danube River Basin, followed by environmental risk assessment and mode of action analysis of the prioritized chemicals. You can read his experiences in this short report.

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May 2023

Joint Secondment at Environmental Institute (EI), Slovakia– Simon Schmid, Niamh O’Connor, and Susanna Mölkänen

Three our ESRs spent their joint secondment at the Environmental Institute (EI) in Slovakia to learn about how an environmental and risk management company conducts target and non-target screening of chemicals in the environment and how they apply this information to prioritise chemicals in the environment. About their experiences, you can read in this short report.

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