Results

This "Draft overview of programmes" provides a first description of the E&H research landscape and gives a survey of national programmes owned or managed by the ERA-ENVHEALTH consortium partners. Necessary information was collected through a questionnaire survey focused on describing the programme manager organisations, providing overall information on the E&H programmes (objectives, budget and source of funding, topics) and information on the number of projects funded by the E&H programmes. The information was collected from 14 organisations which provided information on 18 E&H programmes. The survey confirmed that the E&H programmes dealt with a very wide range of objectives, agents, topics and other E&H issues and that there is a need to bring together scientists from many disciplines including environmental, medical, biomedical and socio-economic sciences, public health research, economists and legal experts to find solutions to environmental issues related to health and human well-being problems. The information collected in this overview will serve as an input into the E&H research database which will be a platform for mutual information and experience sharing within the E&H partners.

 

 

The main aim of this Final Report was to give an overview of the European environment and health (E&H) landscape based on the description of programmes and their related projects owned or managed by the ERA-ENVHEALTH partners and in a wider scope within the Member States. Further goals were to describe the structures available for funding of transnational research among the countries participating within the ERA-ENVHEALTH project, to identify the main authorities in the field of E&H, to obtain information on programme managing practices and to provide recommendations for effective funding of E&H research and effective arrangements for cooperation.

It can be highlighted that the participating organisations showed a great interest in exchanging information within the ERA-ENVHEALTH network and in future cooperation within the field of E&H. By September 2009, 38 organisations (including the 16 ERA-ENVHEALTH partners) from 11 countries gathered and entered data on 49 E&H funding programmes and 461 associated projects. This information is a strong basis for analysing the research in the field of E&H in the participating countries. It reflects the diversity of the participating countries, their different cultures and structures for research and administration as well as their similarities. The large amount of information gathered stresses the high interest in further cooperation and also the need for future collaboration in this area.