EIRENE at the international conference “Occupational Surveillance and Environmental Health” held in Fez, Morocco

As several BioNet partners from Europe participate in EIRENE, IHEN and/or PARC, the achievements and impacts of these EU project were presented in several invited lectures. Aziza Menouni from EIRENE Belgium (KU Leuwen) was a member of the organizing committee. Radu Corneliu Duca from EIRENE Luxembourg spoke about tracking the invisible through human biomonitoring in PARC. Lode Godderis from KU Leuven highlighted a need for bridging universities, hospitals and the work places when talking about he human sentinel surveillance.

Jana Klánová was invited to describe how EIRENE and IHEN work together to build the international human exposome network and the underlying research infrastructure. She explained how African countries can get involved in the nework and benefit from the newly built experimental capacities of EIRENE. She also mentioned synergies with the NEXUS network in the US and how the EU and US networks work together to establish the Global Exposome Forum. She invited participants to the first global summit of GEF organised jointly in Spain next year, as well as the upcoming ADRD/Exposome Symposium to meet in Morocco in 2027.