Running European projects to advance knowledge
The work carried out by ANSES aims to develop knowledge and methodologies, discuss common work themes with partners and establish a network of organisations and experts, who can also contribute to the Agency’s various risk assessment activities.
ANSES coordinates large-scale European programmes
PARC
The goal of the European partnership for the assessment of risks from chemicals (PARC), co-funded by the EU’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for 2021–2027, “Horizon Europe”, is to design an assessment of the risks caused by new-generation chemicals to better protect health and the environment. PARC is coordinated by ANSES and has garnered unprecedented support, bringing together some 200 French and European players. PARC encompasses all aspects of chemical risk assessment, including improving the anticipation of emerging risks, better addressing combined risks, and supporting the effective implementation of new European public policy guidelines for the protection of health and the environment in response to major health and environmental challenges and in line with citizens’ expectations.
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The main European projects in which ANSES is involved
Research projects receiving European funding and/or carried out with European partners promote ANSES’s expertise and enable ANSES scientists to maintain their skills and expertise at the highest level. This involvement therefore contributes to enhancing support for risk assessment and the reference activities of laboratories.
ANSES teams participate in many European projects, mainly funded by the EU’s Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020, and since 2021, Horizon Europe), as well as by other funding sources such as the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), ERA-NETs, Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) or bilateral calls from the French National Research Agency (ANR). The tables below list the most recent projects.
| Acronym | Name | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| EUFAWREADY | Enhancing Europe's Readiness for Managing Fall Armyworm, an Invasive Pest Threat | 2025 - 2029 |
| EUPAHW | European partnership on animal health and welfare | 2024 - 2031 |
| TOXBOX | Toxicology-testing platform integrating immunocompetent in vitro/ex vivo modules with real-time sensing and machine learning based in silico models for life cycle assessment and SSbD | 2024 - 2027 |
| PAIR | Pandemic Information to Support Rapid Response | 2024 - 2027 |
| DARWIN | Transition to safe & sustainable food systems through new & innovative detection methods & digital solutions for plant-based products derived from new genomic techniques, under a co-creation approach | 2024 - 2027 |
| WildPosh | Pan European Assessment, Monitoring and Mitigation of Chemicals Stressors on the Health of Wild Pollinators | 2024 - 2027 |
| NEM-EMERGE | An integrated set of novel approaches to counter the emergence and proliferation of invasive and virulent soil-borne nematodes | 2024 - 2027 |
| CATALYSE | Catalysing scientific innovation into food safety action | 2024 - 2026 |
| EUPHRESCOIII | Strenghtening Phytosanitary Research Programming and Collaboration: from European to Global Phytosanitary Research Coordination | 2024 - 2026 |
| IHEN PROJECT | International Human Exposome Network Project | 2023 - 2026 |
| OneBAT | One Health approach to understand, predict and prevent viral emergencies from bats | 2023 - 2026 |
| WiLiMan-ID | Ecology of Wild-life, Livestock, huMan and Infectious Diseases in changing environments | 2023 - 2028 |
| PARC | Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals | 2022 - 2029 |
| BROILERNET | Practice and Science Broiler Production Innovation Network | 2022 - 2026 |
| HOLiFOOD | Holistic approach for tackling food systems risks in a changing global environment | 2022 - 2026 |
| SPIDVAC | Improved control of priority animal diseases: Novel vaccines and companion diagnostic tests for African horse sickness, peste des petits ruminants and foot-and-mouth disease | 2022 - 2026 |
| ISIDORe | Integrated Services for Infectious Diseases Outbreak Research | 2022 - 2025 |
| SAFFI | SAFe Foods for Infants in China and the EU | 2020 - 2024 |
| ATHLETE | Advancing Tools for Human Early Lifecourse Exposome Research and Translation | 2020 - 2025 |
| MOOD | MOnitoring Outbreak events for Disease surveillance in a data science context | 2020 - 2024 |
| EVA-GLOBAL | European virus archive goes Global | 2020 - 2024 |
| NETPOULSAFE | Networking European poultry actors for enhancing the compliance of biosecurity measures for a sustainable production | 2020 - 2024 |
| GOLIATH | Beating Goliath: Generation Of NoveL, Integrated and Internationally Harmonised Approaches for Testing Metabolism Disrupting Compounds | 2019 - 2024 |
| OBERON | An integrative strategy of testing systems for identification of EDs related to metabolic disorders | 2019 - 2024 |
| RiskGONE | Risk Governance of Nanotechnology | 2019 - 2023 |
| HERA | Integrating Environment and Health Research: a Vision for the EU | 2019 - 2022 |
| One Health EJP | Promoting One Health in Europe through joint actions on foodborne zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance and emerging microbiological hazards | 2018 - 2023 |
| PoshBee | Pan-european assessment, monitoring, and mitigation Of Stressors on the Health of BEEs | 2018 - 2023 |
| VIVALDI | Veterinary Validation of Point-of-Care Detection Instrument | 2018 - 2022 |
| EuroBioTox | European programme for the establishment of validated procedures for the detection and identification of biological toxins | 2017 - 2023 |
| HBM4EU | European Human Biomonitoring Initiative | 2017 - 2022 |
| VALITEST | Validation of diagnostic tests to support plant health | 2018 - 2021 |
| VetBioNet | Veterinary Biocontained facility Network for excellence in animal infectiology research and experimentation | 2017 - 2022 |
| PALE-Blu | Understanding pathogen, livestock, environment interactions involving bluetongue virus | 2017 - 2021 |
| MET-PEST | Multi-approach determination of metal based pesticides in food | 2017 - 2019 |
| PRO-METROFOOD | Progressing towards the construction of METROFOOD-RI | janv. - déc. 2017 |
| ZIKAlliance | A global alliance for Zika virus control and prevention | 2016 - 2019 |
| EuroMix | EuroMix | 2015 - 2019 |
| POnTE | Pest Organisms Threatening Europe | 2015 - 2019 |
| SUSFANS | Metrics, Models and Foresight for European Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security | 2015 - 2019 |
| COMPARE | COllaborative Management Platform for detection and Analyses of (Re-)emerging and foodborne outbreaks in Europe | 2014 - 2019 |
| Nom | Durée |
|---|---|
| A retail prevalence study to investigate microbiological contamination levels in RTE plant-based dairy and meat substitutes | 2025 - 2027 |
| ADME4NGRA: Implementing the EFSA NAMs Roadmap through Advancing Toxicokinetic Knowledge in Chemical Risk Assessment | 2023 - 2027 |
| Creation of Open Access EU Food Composition Database (EU FCDB) and European Environmental Footprint of Food Database (EFF database) | 2022 - 2025 |
| Cross member state collaboration and development for improved outbreak investigation, preparedness and sharing of Whole Genome Sequences in the EU | 2025 - 2027 |
| Data flow mapping in a Member State | 2024 - 2025 |
| Entrusting new preparatory tasks falling within the mission of the EFSA Pesticides Peer Review and Pesticides Residues and Application Desk units (Framework partnership agreement and its specific requests) | 2021-2025 |
| Establishing capacities for active surveillance of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds in Europe | 2024 - 2027 |
| Eurocigua2: An integrated approach to characterise the human health risks of ciguatoxins in fish in Europe | 2022 - 2025 |
| Evaluation of new evidence on Non-Dietary Exposure to Plant Protection Products | 2023 - 2025 |
| Experimental and observational evidence to reduce knowledge gaps for risk assessment of new and emerging plant pests | 2023 - 2027 |
| Extension of the Risk Assessment Knowledge Integration Platform "RAKIP-Web" | 2024 - 2025 |
| Identification of emerging risks associated with food supplements, other than vitamins and minerals | 2024 - 2026 |
| Initiative Group on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) | 2024 - 2025 |
| Large Language Models analysis for automatic FoodEx2 codification | 2024 - 2027 |
| Monitoring and assessing the potential impact of the introduction of the invasive weed teosinte on maize cultivation in the EU | 2025 - 2028 |
| NAMS4NANO: Integration of New Approach Methodologies results in chemical risk | 2022 - 2026 |
| One Health approach to investigate Botulinum neurotoxin-producing bacteria contamination levels from farm to fork | 2025 - 2027 |
| Partnership with EFSA on the retrospective Cumulative Risk Assessment of dietary exposure to pesticide residues (Framework partnership agreement and its specific requests) | 2024 - 2027 |
| Pathogens in Food Database | 2022 - 2026 |
| Rebuild Data Framework – New Data Ingestion and Management System Member States Recommendations and Enhancing for new functionalities | 2024 - 2025 |
| Request to provide a scientific and technical assistance on a horizon scanning exercise in view to crisis preparedness on plant health for the EU territory | 2022 - 2026 |
| Support to EFSA in the Risk Assessment of Food Enzymes, Food Additives, Food Flavourings and Feed Additives | 2023 - 2027 |
| Technical and Scientific Support for the preparation of the EU One Health Zoonoses report (EUOHZ) | 2025 - 2029 |
| TKplate 2.0: An Open source platform integrating physiologically-based kinetic and physiologically-based kinetic-dynamic models and machine learning models for risk assessment of single and multiple chemicals and biological stressors in animal species | 2022 - 2025 |
| Acronym | Name | Duration | Funder |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEAP-MAR | Blue BioEconomy in the Atlantic Area: New Products from MARine organisms | 2024 - 2027 | INTERREG Atlatic Area |
| JAPreventNCD | Cancer and other NCDs prevention – action on health determinants | 2024 - 2027 | EU4Health |
| AngioEU | Emerging zoonotic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis in EU and French overseas territories | 2025 - 2027 | PHC Barrande |
| ENVIRANT | Environmental impact of anthelmintics in livestock and alternatives to minimize their use | 2024 - 2028 | COST |
| EU-WISH | EU Wastewater Integrated Surveillance for Public Health | 2023 - 2026 | EU4Health |
| ESFLU | European Swine Influenza Network | 2022 - 2026 | COST |
| Pseudo-Maldi | Improvement of maldi-tof identification of pseudomonas species: towards fast & accurate study of antimicrobial susceptibility | 2024 - 2026 | PHC Amadeus |
| ENVIRE | Interventions to control the dynamics of antimicrobial resistance from chickens through the environment | 2022 - 2025 | JPI AMR |
| ICONIC | Ionophore coccidiostats: risk of CO-selectioN of antImicrobial resistance - Clinical impact and intervention strategies | 2022 - 2025 | JPI AMR |
| EU-JAMRAI 2 | Joint Action Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections 2 | 2024 - 2027 | EU4Health |
| Joint Action on quality of medicines and implementation of the pharmaceutical legislation/strategy | 2022 - 2025 | EU4Health | |
| MEDplants4vet | Medicinal plants for animal health care: Translating tradition into modern veterinary medicine | 2023 - 2027 | COST |
| SulTAn | Optimized dosing regimens for the combinations of sulfonamides and trimethoprim in veterinary medicine | 2023 - 2026 | JPI AMR |
| POC4AIV | Preventing zoonoses by screening Avian Influenza Virus (AIV) in wildlife birds and poultry using a novel rapid point of care system | 2022 - 2025 | ERA-NET: ICRAD |
| ECHINO-SAFE-MED | Project: New sustainable tools and innovative actions to control cystic ECHINOcoccosis in sheep farms in the MEDiterranean area: improvement of diagnosis and SAFEty in response to climatic changes | 2021 - 2025 | PRIMA |
| INNOTUB II | Scientific network of excellence to improve the control and surveillance of tuberculosis in livestock and wildlife 2 | 2024 - 2027 | INTERREC POCTEFA |
| SuCoFrAS | Speed Up the Contribution of France to biocidal Active Substance review programme | 2024 - 2028 | Single Market Programme |
| VET-FRAM | French Veterinary Antimicrobial Drugs Sales and Use Monitoring | 2022 - 2028 | Single Market Programme |
| United4Surveillance | Union and National Capacity Building 4 IntegraTED Surveillance | 2022 - 2025 | EU4Health |
| Up4Food | Upcycling side-streams for sustainable and healthy ingredients and new food concepts | 2023 - 2026 | HDHL |
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Assessment of ANSES’s participation in “Horizon 2020”
Following the announcement of the results of the most recent calls for projects under the EU’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for 2014–2020, known as “Horizon 2020”, ANSES decided to evaluate the participation of its teams in projects funded under this programme.
ANSES teams from the laboratories as well as from the risk and regulated product assessment departments showed great motivation by consistently submitting around 10 to 15 proposals each year. At 28% of successful proposals out of the eligible submissions, ANSES’s success rate is almost double that of France for the Horizon 2020 programme as a whole. The projects funded under Horizon 2020 are collaborative projects carried out by ANSES teams with leading research organisations in the field, such as INSERM and INRAE in France, RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands), WUR (Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands) or DTU (Danish Technical University) in Europe.
Access the full report on ANSES’s participation in “Horizon 2020” (PDF) (in French).
Completed projects coordinated by ANSES
Since 2004, ANSES teams have become recognised as the “go-to” coordinators of European projects on priority topics. ANSES staff has expertise in leading European consortiums, particularly in the context of large-scale European funding programmes such as the EU’s Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation and the EU’s health programmes. Some of these projects have continued as active networks at European level, resulting in the implementation of several initiatives on the topics addressed.
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Valitest project: robust methods for detecting pests
- JANPA: A European joint action to halt the rise of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents.
- TDS-Exposure: A European project to harmonise the monitoring of dietary exposure to chemical contaminants.
- NANOGENOTOX: A European project to develop a method for detecting the genotoxic potential of nanomaterials. Access all Nanogenotox project documents.
- ERA-ENVHEALTH: A unique network for environmental health research in Europe.
- MED-VET-NET: A network of excellence that aims to pool expertise in veterinary science, public health and food research at European level in order to strengthen the prevention and control of zoonoses, including those transmitted by food. See also the MED-VET-NET association.