Researchers on The Move

Conference Outputs

In February 2024, the sister projects attended the “Research Perspectives on the Health Impacts of Climate Change” conference in Brussels, organised by the European Commission. PLANET4HEALTH partners from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, CICERO, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Institute for Medical Research, joined GoGreen Next Maynooth University and Leibniz Universität Hannover researchers with Vanessa Harris from SPRINGS . Poster presentations and networking opportunities were excellent at this visionary event.

In April, PLANET4HEALTH participated in the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, where project co-coordinator Suzana Blesic from the Institute for Medical Research, co-convened a session on real-time forecasting for climate and environmental hazards. At the Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Veterinary Parasitology College, Carla Maia from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, showcased the topic of the Case Study 1, Canine Leishmaniasis in the Iberian Peninsula.

From South to North

Two further conferences bookended November for GoGreen Next, which took the team on a journey from Sitges, south of Barcelona, where floods had days earlier wreaked havoc, to Lillehammer in Norway. The Urban Transitions conference, in Sitges, highlighted many aspects of the planned approach of GoGreen Next with a keynote talk by Prof. Mark Nieuwenhuijsen and presentations by our team from UCC and Maynooth University in Ireland.

The VIII Conference on Environmental Psychology held in Lillehammer, brought a vast difference in temperature, but the campus of Inland University of Norway, a partner in GoGreen Next, warmed our spirits. Poster and oral presentations highlighted the plans for our early stage researchers from Maynooth University in the project, including the ambitious efforts of Ada Nicke to conduct a conceptual analysis of the planetary health topic and the digital transformation tools which are AI supported as outlined by Alan Scarry.