Context
In an environment where circulation of goods and people is constantly increasing, the risk posed by global threats in the bio field is also growing. In order to enhance health security, countries need to exert a continuous monitoring of their population’s health, but they must also build capacity to identify health risks emerging internationally that can affect their population.
Objective
The project is aimed at creating a framework for collaboration on reference laboratories issues to improve communicable diseases surveillance and communication and provide training for public health experts in the participating countries. It will build-up on the results of the ending EpiSouth-Plus project (IFS/2010/238-194).
- Reference
- IFS/2013/330961
- Project duration
- 6 Jan 2014 - 5 Jan 2018
- Project locations
- AlbaniaAlgeriaArmeniaBosnia and HerzegovinaEgyptGeorgiaJordanKosovoLebanonLibyaMoldovaMontenegroMoroccoNorth MacedoniaPalestineSerbiaTunisiaTürkiyeUkraine
- CBRN areas
- Bio-safety/bio-security
- CBRN categories
- Biological
- CoE Region
- MIE - Middle East
- NAS - North Africa and Sahel
- SEEE - South East and Eastern Europe
Stakeholders
Coordinators
European Commission
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
- Website
- http://www.unicri.it/
European Union External Action Service (EEAS)
Participants
Institut Pasteur (IP)
Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (Spanish National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology) (INIA)
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development) (IRD)
- Website
- https://en.ird.fr/
Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Institute of Health) (ISS)
- Website
- https://www.iss.it/