Partnership website: https://www.eu-parc.eu/
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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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
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
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Partnerships group the EC and private and/or public partners, to coordinate and streamline the research & innovation initiatives and funding in some selected key domains.
The AgrifoodTEF, funded under the Digital Europe call for a Testing and Experimentation Facility for Agri-Food, is a network of world-class testing and experimentation facilities (TEFs) in the agri-food sector that supports testing state-of-the-art data, AI, and robotics solutions in real-world environments to accelerate their market introduction. ILVO, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Flemish node of the AgriFoodTEF supports the entire agri-food business, leveraging its infrastructures, experience and vast network established through participation in numerous Digital Europe and Horizon Europe initiatives.