Running European projects to advance knowledge
ANSES coordinates a large-scale European programme
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.
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.
| Acronyme | Nom | Durée |
|---|---|---|
| BE READY | European Partnership for Pandemic Preparedness | 2026 - 2032 |
| BIENVENUE PLUS | Welcoming highly-talented international post-docs in Brittany | 2025 - 2030 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 - 2026 |
| Cross member state collaboration and development for improved outbreak investigation, preparedness and sharing of Whole Genome Sequences in the EU | 2025 - 2027 |
| Developing provisions for guidance on New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) data integration and implementing hypothesis-driven Next Generation Risk Assessment (NGRA), with specific focus on the area of food nanotechnology | 2025 - 2027 |
| Establishing capacities for active surveillance of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds in Europe | 2024 - 2027 |
| Experimental and observational evidence to reduce knowledge gaps for risk assessment of new and emerging plant pests | 2023 - 2027 |
| From Wild Waters to Human Health: a pilot study to address the knowledge gap on zoonotic helminths in freshwater fish (EURO-PAR-FISH) | 2026 - 2028 |
| Further development of EFSA's TKPlate platform for toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic modelling | 2025 - 2027 |
| Identification of emerging risks associated with food supplements, other than vitamins and minerals | 2024 - 2026 |
| Joint programming for risk assessments in vector-borne diseases | 2026 - 2030 |
| 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 |
| Pathway to animal welfare quantitative risk assessment: piloting a standardised collection of Animal Based Measures in pigs | 2025 - 2028 |
| 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 from Member States on NAMs4PestRes | 2025 - 2026 |
| Support to EFSA for the risk assessment of pesticides | 2025 - 2029 |
| 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 |
| Acronyme | Nom | Durée | Financeur |
|---|---|---|---|
| AngioEU | Emerging zoonotic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis in EU and French overseas territories | 2025 - 2027 | PHC Barrande |
| BEAP-MAR | Blue BioEconomy in the Atlantic Area: New Products from MARine organisms | 2024 - 2027 | INTERREG Atlatic Area |
| ECHINO-SAFE-MED | 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 - 2026 | PRIMA |
| ENVIRANT | Environmental impact of anthelmintics in livestock and alternatives to minimize their use | 2024 - 2028 | COST |
| ESFLU | European Swine Influenza Network | 2022- 2026 | COST |
| EU-JAMRAI 2 | Joint Action Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections 2 | 2024 - 2027 | EU4Health |
| EU-WISH | EU Wastewater Integrated Surveillance for Public Health | 2023 - 2026 | EU4Health |
| INNOTUB II | Scientific network of excellence to improve the control and surveillance of tuberculosis in livestock and wildlife 2 | 2024 - 2027 | INTERREG POCTEFA |
| JAPreventNCD | Cancer and other NCDs prevention –action on health determinants | 2024 - 2027 | EU4Health |
| MEDplants4vet | Medicinal plants for animal health care: Translating tradition into modern veterinary medicine | 2023 - 2027 | COST |
| METABOL-AR | An application of metabolomics to the detection of anthelmintic resistance of gastrointestinal nematodes in goats | 2024 - 2027 | ERA-NET: ICRAD |
| OpenEAT | I eat to live or I live to eat | 2024 - 2026 | Erasmus + |
| Pseudo-Maldi | Improvement of maldi-tof identification of pseudomonas species: towards fast & accurate study of antimicrobial susceptibility | 2024 - 2026 | PHC Amadeus |
| Q-Net-Assess | Improving surveillance and assessing the diversity of Coxielle burnetti in Europe | 2023 - 2026 | ERA-NET: ICRAD |
| SuCoFrAS | Speed Up the Contribution of France to biocidal Active Substance review programme | 2024 - 2028 | Single Market Programme |
| SulTAn | Optimized dosing regimens for the combinations of sulfonamides and trimethoprim in veterinary medicine | 2023 - 2026 | JPI AMR |
| United4Surveillance | Union and National Capacity Building 4 IntegraTED Surveillance | 2022 - 2026 | EU4Health |
| Up4Food | Upcycling side-streams for sustainable and healthy ingredients and new food concepts | 2024 - 2027 | HDHL |
| VET-FRAM | Système Français de surveillance des ventes et de l’utilisation d’antimicrobiens en médecine vétérinaire | 2022 - 2028 | Single Market Programme |
Focus on
Mid-term overview (2021 – 2024) of the ANSES’s participation in “Horizon Europe”
Horizon Europe, the 9th Framework Programme for Research and Innovation of the European Union covering the period 2021–2027, has reached its halfway point and it is time for ANSES to evaluate the participation of its teams in projects funded under this programme.
The ANSES teams from the laboratories, but also from other departments (risk assessment; evaluation of regulated products; social science, economics and society, strategy and programmes, European and international affairs) have shown great dynamism by consistently submitting around 15 proposals each year. The success rate of around 35% of proposals selected from those submitted is double the average success rate (16%) for Horizon Europe for the same period (2021–2024). The projects funded by Horizon Europe bring together ANSES teams and many other major research organisations or agencies in the same fields of expertise, such as INRAE and CIRAD in France, or WUR (Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands), CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), DTU (Danish Technical University) and FLI (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Germany) in Europe.
See the mid-term overview review (2021 - 2024) of the ANSES's participation in "Horizon Europe" and 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.
Focus on
One Health EJP
- VALITEST: A european project to harmonise the diagnostic practices for plant pests. Find out more about the project results.
- 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.