scholarly journals PoshBee: Pan-European Assessment, Monitoring, and Mitigation of Stressors on the Health of Bees

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Brown ◽  
Philippe Bulet ◽  
Marie-Pierre Chauzat ◽  
Iliyana Demirova ◽  
Alexandra-Maria Klein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Fundamental Science ◽  
Funded Project

PoshBee is a 5-year funded project (2018-2023) that aims to support healthy bee populations, sustainable beekeeping, and consequently pollination for crops and wildflowers across Europe. To do this we take a range of approaches, from the laboratory to the field, from molecules to ecosystems, and from fundamental science to risk assessment. This document is an edited version of the original funding proposal that was submitted to the European Commission.

The EU ECENTRE Project

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Denis Edgar-Nevill
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Cyber Terrorism ◽  
Internet Crime ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Considerable Problem ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The Eu

Since the EU Cybercrime Convention in 2000 (EU 2001), there has been a clear recognition of the accelerating threats to society posed by those who would exploit computers for crime and the logical progression to cyber-terrorism and cyberwarfare. Since that time the capacity to deal with cybercrime (crimes involving the use of computers) has improved but the problem has grown alarmingly. The European Commission recognises the increasing threat of cybercrime and has committed significant research and development funding in seeking to protect the community from cybercrime and cyberwar. This paper discusses a new European Commission funded project ECENTRE – England's Cybercrime Centre of Excellence Network for Training, Research and Education. On 20th December 2012 the European Commission signed the €0.935million (£760,000) contract for the project. The contract is awarded under the Programme Prevention of and Fight against Internet Crime Targeted Call – ISEC 2011 Action Grants– Project Number HOME/2011/ISEC/AG/INT/4000002226. The author is the Project Manager and Principal Investigator for the project. ECENTRE forms part of a wider European network of centres of excellence to share expertise, promote best practice and provide training opportunities for law enforcement across the EU. The challenges in establishing effecting cooperation and sharing are discussed. The considerable problem of keeping pace with the fast-developing, complex, problem posed by threats to national infrastructure, organisations and individuals is examined; highlighting the role of education as a fundamental weapon in the fight. The more we know about a threat (real or potential) – the better protected against it we become.

scholarly journals Technical Risk Analysis of Railway Vehicle

2010 ◽  
Vol 14-15 (1) ◽  
pp. 351-358
Author(s):  
Adam Mańka ◽  
Rafał Wachnik
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Risk Evaluation ◽  
Railway Vehicle ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Official Document ◽  
Technical Risk ◽  
Commission Regulation ◽  
Risk Assessment And Analysis

Technical Risk Analysis of Railway Vehicle The first official document concerning technical risk assessment in railway transport was "Safety Directive" #49 released in 2004 by European Commission. It was particularized in commission regulation number 352 from 2009 on the adoption of a common safety method on risk evaluation and assessment. The actual requirement of technical risk assessment results from building and implementing IRIS, and from 2012 it will result from certification of maintenance facilities (Directive 110/2008/EC). In this article legal basics concerning technical risk assessment, and analysis of railway accidents were discussed.

scholarly journals Understanding the Role of Device Level Interoperability in Promoting Health - Lessons Learned from the SmartPersonalHealth Project

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 87-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Stroetmann ◽  
R. Thiel ◽  
K. A. Stroetmann ◽  
M. Romao ◽  
M. Strubin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Imaging Informatics ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Patient Representatives ◽  
Business Cases ◽  
Funded Project

SummaryTo summarize lessons learned from the European Commission (EC) co-funded project SmartPersonalHealth, a project to promote a greater understanding of the value of interoperability among Personal Health Systems (PHS) and between them and other eHealth systems, in the landscape of continuity of care and across multi-cultural environments in Europe.Key concepts in PHS interoperability, challenges, barriers and benefits were discussed with stakeholders (policy makers, regulators, procurers, healthcare providers, health professionals, patient representatives, industry, researchers) in three consultation workshops and a final conference. The results were synthesized in final report to the European Commission.The survey and analysis presented, which are designed to set the scene on the key requirements of device level interoperability within a context of using sensors, signals and imaging informatics in healthcare, set out key interoperability standards for PHS as provided for in the Continua Health Alliance Guidelines and explores further the need for wider organisational and regulatory aspects of interoperability.Achieving interoperability of eHealth systems is a complex process involving various actors and challenges far beyond technical and standardisation issues. For harnessing the key benefits of PHS, any interoperability scenario needs to account for value-based business cases for all stakeholders involved. It must foresee to enable seamless and consistent data and information flows by integrating and mixing devices used by patients/consumers at home, for remote monitoring, for home hospitalisation and/or within the hospital.

ILSI Europe’s Food Allergy Task Force: From Defining the Hazard to Assessing the Risk from Food Allergens

2018 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
René R W Crevel ◽  
Stefan Ronsmans ◽  
Cyril F M Marsaux ◽  
Diána Bánáti
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Food Allergy ◽  
Task Force ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Food Allergies ◽  
Food Allergens ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Europe Food Allergy Task Force was founded in response to early public concerns about the growing impact of food allergies almost coincidentally with the publication of the 1995 Food and Agriculture Organization-World Health Organization Technical Consultation on Food Allergies. In line with ILSI principles aimed to foster collaboration between stakeholders to promote consensus on science-based approaches to food safety and nutrition, the task force has played a central role since then in the development of risk assessment for food allergens. This ranged from consideration of the criteria to be applied to identifying allergens of public health concern through methodologies to determine the relationship between dose and the proportion of allergic individuals reacting, as well as the nature of the observed responses. The task force also promoted the application of novel, probabilistic risk assessment methods to better delineate the impact of benchmarks, such as reference doses, and actively participated in major European food allergy projects, such as EUROPREVALL, the European Union (EU)-funded project “The prevalence, cost and basis of food allergy across Europe;” and iFAAM, “Integrated approaches to food allergen and allergy risk management,” also an EU-funded project. Over the years, the task force’s work has evolved as answers to initial questions raised further issues: Its current work program includes a review of analytical methods and how different ones can best be deployed given their strengths and limitations. Another activity, which has just commenced, aims to develop a framework for stakeholders to achieve consensus on acceptable risk.

scholarly journals FTS improvements for LHC Run-3 and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 04016
Author(s):  
Edward Karavakis ◽  
Andrea Manzi ◽  
Maria Arsuaga Rios ◽  
Oliver Keeble ◽  
Carles Garcia Cabot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Third Party ◽  
File Transfer ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Fundamental Component ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Service Scalability

The File Transfer Service (FTS) developed at CERN and in production since 2014, has become a fundamental component for the LHC experiments and is tightly integrated with experiment frameworks. Starting from the beginning of 2018 with the participation to the European Commission funded project eXtreme Data Cloud (XDC) and the activities carried out in the context of the WLCG DOMA TPC and QoS working groups, a series of new developments and improvements have been planned and performed taking also into account the requirements from the experiments in preparation for the LHC Run-3. This paper provides a detailed overview of these developments; more specifically, the integration with OpenID Connect (OIDC), the QoS integration, the service scalability enhancements, the support for XRootD and HTTP Third Party Copy (TPC) transfers along with the integration with the new CERN Tape Archive (CTA) system.

scholarly journals ENERCA: e-Learning Platform

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-92
Author(s):  
Patricia Aguilar-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
European Network ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Funded Project

ENERCA (the European Network for Rare and Congenital Anemias) is a European Commission funded project since 2002 [...]

The European Ombudsman Urges the European Commission to Abandon its Unlawful Pesticide Approval Practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-415
Author(s):  
Anne de Vries–Stotijn
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Plant Protection ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Plant Protection Products ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Data Gaps ◽  
Action Network

On 18 February 2016, the European Ombudsman delivered a decision (case 12/2013/MDC) that has the potential to thoroughly shake up the manner in which the European Commission authorises plant protection products (PPPs).Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN-Europe) brought the case before the Ombudsman. It alleged that the Commission approves potentially unsafe PPPs and disregards data gaps in the risk assessment, thereby ignoring concerns raised by the European Food and Safety Authority. PAN-Europe also argued that the Commission fails to set appropriate risk mitigation measures and to check Member States’ compliance with those measures. The Ombudsman largely agreed with PAN-Europe. She found that the Commission indeed authorised substances, even when it was unclear whether a substance met the legal health and environmental safety requirements. The Ombudsman made several recommendations to the Commission for bringing its approval practice, which constitutes maladministration, in conformity with EU pesticide law.

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