EIRENE Research Insfrastructure
EIRENE Research infrastructure (EIRENE RI: Research Infrastructure for EnvIRonmental Exposure assessmeNt in Europe) was designed as a geographically balanced network of distributed research infrastructures. The EIRENE RI consists of 17 National Nodes representing c. 50 institutions with a complementary scientific expertise and research capacities.
EIRENE RI is the first ESFRI research infrastructure, which is coordinated by the Czech Republic. The EIRENE RI is coordinated by the RECETOX Research Centre, at Faculty of Science of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.
Background and scientific merit
EIRENE RI aims to fill the existing gap in the European infrastructural landscape and introduces the first EU infrastructure focused on the research of human exposome (environmental determinants of health). The consortium is represented by the scientists dealing with 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. This approach will lead to improved understanding of the impact of the exposome on the European population, characterization of the risk factors behind development of chronic conditions, and discovery of novel tools for their prevention and treatment.
Consortium
The consortium covers the regions of Northern (Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden), Western (Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK), Southern (Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Spain) and Central and Eastern (Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia) Europe and US. The EIRENE RI team consists of the scientists leading the exposome research internationally. The National Nodes are represented by following institutes and institutions:
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Columbia University, USA
- Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Belgium
- INSERM Paris, France
- Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research - IDAEA, Spanish Council for Scientific Research - CSIC, Spain
- Masarykova univerzita, The Czech Republic
- Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Department for Promotion of Welfare and Health, Finland
- National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, CNR-IIA), Italy
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
- Örebro University, Sweden
- Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
- University College London, UK
- University of Iceland, Iceland
- University of Vienna, Austria
- Utrecht University, Netherlands
- WECARE, Wissenschafts- und Entwicklungs-Campus Regensburg, Barmherzige Brüder Klinik St. Hedwig, Regensburg, Germany
References
- Large research infrastructures, MEYS CR, The EIRENE project coordinated by the Masaryk University to be included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2021. www.vyzkumne-infrastruktury.cz. Retrieved 18.8.2021
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