ANSES Call for Proposals: Environmental and Occupational Health

ANSES launched its 2025 call for research proposals on the topic “Environmental and Occupational Health“. This call for research proposals (CRP), issued each year, aims to motivate scientific communities to conduct research on environmental and occupational health topics, and to develop new methods and tools at all stages of risk assessments for health or ecosystems, particularly in order to document research issues raised by the relevant ministries and government agencies. Particular interest is paid to research topics whose results can be used rapidly by public policymakers and will lead to sustainable progress in the area of human health, in the general population or in the workplace, or in the preservation or restoration of different ecosystems.

Research questions:

• It is open to researchers working in the human and social sciences, biological and health sciences, physical and chemical sciences, engineering and environmental sciences.
• Proposals combining multidisciplinary approaches are encouraged, especially those including human and social science approaches.
• Similarly, approaches that study both the impacts on ecosystems and the effects on health, with a “one health” approach, are encouraged.
• The programme excludes studies on food in the strict sense (including beverages and drinking water), apart from the study of contaminants to which humans may be exposed by this route.

The call for proposals also encourages researchers to:

• Use data made available to research communities according to the FAIR principles: biobanks, databases from national or international biomonitoring studies, health data collected by occupational health services, registers, databases on contamination of the environment (water, air, soil), food and drinking water, etc.
• Include the “One Health” concept in their approach.
• Take gender into account in the studies.
• Develop approaches that take uncertainty and the weight of evidence into account

Read more here.

Letter of intent deadline December 10, 2024.