| Project Acronym | SIRENE |
|---|---|
| Funding Programme | Horizon Europe |
| Budget | €9,951,380.07 |
| Coordinator | Masaryk University (MU) |
| Project Duration | 1 October 2026 – 30 September 2031 |
SIRENE: Research infrastructure services to enable research linking environmental factors to human health aims to establish an integrated European research infrastructure ecosystem supporting research on the links between environmental exposures and human health. The project brings together multiple European ESFRI research infrastructures to provide coordinated access to services, technologies, facilities, datasets, and expertise for exposome and environmental health research.
The project focuses on improving access to interdisciplinary environmental health services through the development of the SIRENE Access Management System (SAMS), implementation of transnational and virtual access services, stakeholder engagement activities, FAIR data management, service integration demonstrators, and science-to-policy activities.
By integrating capacities across European research infrastructures, SIRENE aims to strengthen translational and clinical research, improve evidence-based policymaking, support innovation and socio-economic impact, and develop sustainable long-term infrastructure services for environmental health and exposome research in Europe.
Consortium
The SIRENE consortium brings together a large network of European ESFRI research infrastructures, universities, research institutes, and scientific organisations with expertise in exposomics, environmental health, translational medicine, clinical research, imaging, data science, biomonitoring, FAIR data management, and science-to-policy activities.
The consortium integrates capacities across infrastructures including ACTRIS, BBMRI, EATRIS, ECRIN, ELIXIR, EMBL, Euro-BioImaging, INSTRUCT, SHARE, and several national nodes of the EIRENE initiative, enabling interdisciplinary and cross-infrastructure service provision across Europe.
EATRIS’ role in the project
EATRIS contributes to SIRENE with expertise in translational medicine, innovation management, and infrastructure integration. Within WP2 – TNA Service Provision, EATRIS provides access to translational medicine services and facilities supporting environmental health and exposome research.
EATRIS also contributes to the sustainability strategy of the SIRENE Access Management System through T1.4 (WP1) and supports stakeholder engagement and socio-economic impact assessment activities within WP7 (T7.1 and T7.4).
In addition, EATRIS leads T8.4 – Innovation Management (WP8), focusing on innovation and IP strategy development, exploitation support, technology transfer, and collaboration with industry and start-ups.
