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EXPOSIM Kick-off meeting

Name: EXPOSIM Kick-off meeting
Start: 2025-02-12T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-13T23:59:59+00:00
Location: Leuven, Belgium

February 12, 2025 - February 13, 2025

KU Leuven, the leader of the EXPOSIM project, is set to host a kick-off meeting on 12-13 February 2025 in Leuven, Belgium. This pivotal event marks the launch of a Horizon Europe project dedicated to building a robust evidence base to better understand how environmental stressors affect immune health. The meeting will bring together all 9 project partners, providing an excellent opportunity to delve into the project’s objectives and make sure that the project is on track to achieve its goal.

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Start: February 12, 2025
End: February 13, 2025

Organiser

KU Leuven

Venue

Leuven, Belgium

KU Leuven

For 600 years, KU Leuven has been driven by unending curiosity and a search for knowledge. KU Leuven features consistently in Europe’s top-15 universities within the Times Higher Education ranking. Worldwide our university ranks #45 in the 2024 edition of the same ranking.

KU Leuven is a research intensive university, a setting for both fundamental and applied research, with a strong inter- and multidisciplinary background and a clear international orientation. We aim for research excellence, a contribution to societal and cultural debates and the realization of a real knowledge society.

In 2023, KU Leuven reported a total research expenditure of € 739.9 M, excluding University Hospitals Leuven. 81.1% of our acquired funding stems from external sources: 45.1% from competitive regional or national funders, 8.6% from European funding (FP7/H2020) and 27.4% through industrial contracts.

In Horizon Europe, KU Leuven participates in 334 projects (coordinating 130 projects), ranking 1st with regard to the budget awarded (€ 207.6 M) and.number of projects in the league of Higher Educations (HES) Institues. In the MSCA-Doctoral Network programme, KU Leuven is the leading HES with 53 projects focusing on the training of young scientists.

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As an experienced coordinator will lead major aspects of coordination including research and data management.

Additionally, KU Leuven will lead work on internal exposome modelling and characterization. KU Leuven will generate new data for a better understanding of the biological mechanisms in relation to external exposome components and immune-mediated diseases.

KU Leuven D will lead work package 9: Exposure-reducing and health-promoting interventions in firefighters. Within this work package, we will collect data about the exposure of firefighters during warm training when different kinds of materials, such as wood, oil, plastic or gas, are set on fire and the impact of technical and behavioural interventions.

The Intego environmental team will try to study the links between environmental factors and immune diseases using a large set of data from GP’S in Belgium linked to those environmental factors.

EXPOSIM Kick-off meeting

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Hasselt Univesity (UHASSELT)

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Aarhus University (AU)

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National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NRCWE)

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Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)

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The Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute (CIOP-PIB)

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FUNDACIO HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D'HEBRON - INSTITUT DE RECERCA (VHIR)

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accelopment Schweiz AG

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Biogenity ApS

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NOVA National School of Public Health (UNL)

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KU Leuven

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