PARC was launched in May 2022. The partnership aims to establish an EU-wide research and innovation programme supporting the EU and national chemical risk assessment/management authorities and processes with new data, knowledge, methods and skills to address current, emerging and novel chemical safety challenges.

In line with the Green Deal’s zero-pollution ambition for a toxic free environment, and the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability the partnership will facilitate the transition to the next generation of risk assessment to better protect human health and the environment.

Core activities of the Horizon 2020 European Joint Programme HBM4EU will be pursued under PARC in the wider context of chemical risk assessment. 

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Key figures

• PARC involves close to 200 institutions working in the areas of the environment or public health from 28 countries and three EU authorities
• PARC has a total funding volume of €400 million for the next seven years, 50% funded by the European Union and 50% by Member States
• 57 projects started in the first year of PARC

Participation Flanders

VITO plays a prominent role as member of the governing board of the partnership & as co-lead PARC's work package 7 'FAIR data'. The partnership website indicates that 'WP7 will strengthen exchange and reuse of research and regulatory data. For this, WP7 will interact with all the WPs to facilitate the access, storage and analysis of data, and the interfacing with the modelling and analysis tools developed by the other WPs. It will work on data and metadata harmonisation as well as on the  FAIR data policies. Furthermore, it will develop innovative tools for analysing increasing amounts of data and their uncertainty. This WP is co-led by VITO (Belgium) and UOB (United Kingdom).' Find out more here.

There are several other Flemish organisations involved as affiliated enitities: Ghent University; Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries & Food (ILVO); Provincial Insistute of Hygiene (Provincie Antwerpen); University of Antwerp; Public Waste Agency of Flanders (OVAM); University of Leuven; Hasselt University; Flemish Department for the Environment & Spacial Planning; Free University of Brussels

Objectives

• Develop the scientific skills needed to address current and future challenges in chemical safety

• Provide new data, methods and innovative tools to those responsible for assessing and managing the risks of chemical exposure

• Strengthen the networks which bring together actors specialised in the different scientific fields contributing to risk assessment

Key documents

• Partnership proposal (June 2020)
• Policy context: Advanced materials and chemicals

Contact

Commission services: RTD-E3-CHEMICALS-MATERIALS@ec.europa.eu

Partnership - Contact | Parc (eu-parc.eu): Parc@anses.fr