๐ช๐บ A major step towards a large-scale European commitment to exposome research.
The European Parliamentโs Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) has voted to adopt its position on Horizon Europe 2028โ2034, proposing the human exposome as one of three candidate European moonshots. In addition, the operative text of the Specific Programme further includes a dedicated broadline on the environmental and social determinants of health, explicitly naming exposome research and large-scale cohort studies as the operational approach.
At the Exposome Alliance we welcome this important recognition of the need for a long-term, coordinated European effort to advance exposome research and understand how environmental and social exposures shape our health.
๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐น๐น๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ-๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฟ๐:
Prof. Annette Peters, Helmholtz Munich:
โThis is a pivotal moment for environmental health research in Europe. The evidence is clear: the majority of chronic disease risk comes from our exposures โ the air we breathe, the food we eat, the conditions in which we live and work. A moonshot on the human exposome would give Europe the long-term, population-scale tools to turn that knowledge into prevention.โ
Prof. Roel Vermeulen๐ฅ, Utrecht University:
โExposome science generates vast amounts of data โ on environmental exposures, biological responses, and health outcomes across the life course. For this data to reach its full potential for prevention, we need an infrastructure that connects it, such as the European Exposome Data Space that the Alliance is currently working on. The moonshot provides the science, the data space connects it, so that evidence can reach policy.โ
The next step is the European Parliament plenary vote on end November, followed by further negotiations.
The Exposome Alliance calls on the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission to maintain these provisions in the final Horizon Europe 2028โ2034 programme.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ’๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฎ.
