Projects

As our planet heats up due to climate change, outbreaks of zoonotic diseases – diseases that spread from animals to humans – are increasing and expanding to new parts of the world, in particular Europe. Warmer temperatures, more variable rainfall, and the loss of biodiversity influence the survival and spread of zoonotic pathogens, and the reproduction and geographic location of...

Extreme climatic events, environmental degradation and socio-economic inequalities exacerbate the risk of infectious disease epidemics. We lack the evidence-base to understand and predict the impacts of extreme events and landscape changes on disease risk, leaving communities in climate change hotspots vulnerable to increasing health threats. This is in part due to a lack of...

Our team explores the programming approaches for homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, including the use of accelerators and distributed clusters. We propose the OmpSs programming model, a task-based approach. OmpSs seeks to improve programmability of applications in such environments, without sacrificing performance. We actively participate in the OpenMP standard...

[ABSTRACT ]The ETC CA works to assist the European Environment Agengy by informing and supporting EU policy processes and their developments, especially the EU Adaptation Strategy, by providing relevant information, improving the existing knowledge base and assisting member countries in the areas of climate change impacts, vulnerability, adaptation and Land Use, Land-Use...

GreenSCENT aims at developing a competence framework embracing all the Green Deal focus areas through an iterative, participated,experience and learning-by-doing based design approach. GreenSCENT will develop the GreenComp framework using both experts andresearchers inputs and advise, citizen participation and stakeholder engagement initiatives; then it will test the...

This response to the tender, entitled, CAMS2_40 Regional Air Quality Products, falls under the second phase of Copernicus (2021-2027), Cop2. Following the first phase (2015-2020), Cop1, the regional production service (CAMS_50) led by Meteo-France and co-managed by Meteo-France/INERIS has consolidated, improved and developed its activities to best meet all the existing and...

Pollution is one of the most significant environmental problems in modern cities, leading to disturbing odour episodes and low-air quality conditions that can be detrimental to public health. Its impact is increasing given the continuous city growth (79 % of the population worldwide live in urban areas) and the climate change effects. Nowadays, half the cities in high-income...

The sustainability of plastic materials implies attaining a renewable origin and recyclable nature. Unfortunately, both conditions are far from being fulfilled by the current industry. In the polyester sector, PET [poly(ethylene- terephthalate)], one of the most common plastics, has a petrochemical origin. Happily, PEF [poly(ethylene-furandicarboxylate)] is emerging as a...

OXIPRO aims at contributing to the transition towards environment-friendly detergents, textiles, cosmetics and nutraceuticals by co-designing and co-developing an efficient oxidoreductases foundry under an interdisciplinary and systemic innovation approach, integrating high-performance computing and cuttingedge biotechnology for tailormade and greener oxidoreductases...

The increasing shift to eco-friendly production impacts the industry of consumer products. The EU-funded FuturEnzyme project will develop advanced innovative solutions to discover, design, optimise and formulate low-cost enzymes for economically viable products in the textile, detergent and cosmetics sectors. A textile containing Elasthane, a liquid detergent, and a...