Climate change is intensifying its effects on human health.
TRIGGER will develop multi-disciplinary investigations to identify and gather in-depth knowledge on the relationship between climate, health and ecosystems.
It will create five Climate-Health Connection (CHC) Labs across Europe where citizens, experts and policymakers will meet, exchange and innovate shared solutions.
Our goal is to create a new international monitoring service for global health protection.
THE PROJECT
TRIGGER aims to deepen the current understanding of the complex linkage between climate change, human health, and ecosystems to ultimately use this knowledge for society to advance as a whole.
To address this challenge, TRIGGER commits an interdisciplinary consortium of 22 partners from 15 different countries with exceeding expertise in the fields of health sciences, climate and environmental science, monitoring technologies and data management, advanced social and economic expertise and knowledge, understanding of policy-making, citizen engagement know-how, communication and dissemination, and transdisciplinary investigation. And will additionally develop an outreaching clinical study composed of a multi-dimensional approach.
The engine of the project will be 5 newly conceived Climate-Health Connection (CHC) Labs built in the 5 European cities of Augsburg (Germany), Bologna (Italy), Geneve (Switzerland), Heraklion (Greece), and Oulu (Finland). The 5 CHC Labs will be the source for the studies’ data collection, engaging citizens, practitioners, and policymakers representing a wide variety of climatic, social, economic, and cultural contexts.
The TRIGGER consortium is committed to implementing Open Science practices and fostering co-creation as an essential methodological component of innovation and research in all project activities.
OBJECTIVE
TRIGGER aims to identify, monitor, and qualify the direct and indirect impacts of climate change-induced environmental hazards on human health through the direct collection of health, weather-climate, environmental, and socio-economic data through the created 5 CHC Labs.
3 PILLARS
Trans-disciplinary investigations to build up systemic knowledge.
Integration and usability of research results.
Development of practical know-how and workable tools to monitor, predict and mitigate risks for human health connected to climate change.
3 PILLARS
Trans-disciplinary investigations to build up systemic knowledge.
Integration and usability of research results.
Development of practical know-how and workable tools to monitor, predict and mitigate risks for human health connected to climate change.
Coordinator
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
Project coordinator
Prof. Dr. Silvana Di Sabatino, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Italy.
Scope of the grant
European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA)
Grant agreement
ID: 101057739
Timeframe
Start date: 1 September 2022
End date: 28 February 2027
Funding amount
€ 9 996 777
Coordinator
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
Project coordinator
Prof. Dr. Silvana Di Sabatino, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Italy.
Scope of the grant
European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA)
Grant agreement
ID: 101057739
Timeframe
Start date: 1 September 2022
End date: 28 February 2027
Funding amount
€ 9 996 777