Euro-AEGIS
Euro-AEGIS, European Agro-Environmental health GIS
associates EEIG, is a European Economical Interest Grouping (EEIG) founded by
Avia-GIS (Zoersel, Belgium) and ERGO (Oxford, UK) in 2004.
The general objective of Euro-AEGIS is to assist in the development of and promote GIS and RS products and applications and training in agro-environmental monitoring, disease surveillance and environmental assessment for sustainable development.
To achieve this the services provided by Euro-AEGIS include: independent, professional advice on agro-environmental monitoring, disease surveillance and environmental assessment; remote sensing applications and GIS development; compilation, mapping and dissemination of standard, area-wide thematic products: agricultural resources, vegetation and land use, livestock distributions, greenhouse gas emissions, disease risk, nutrient excess, pollution risk, protected areas and wildlife habitats etc.; the development of web-based archiving and thematic information systems, capacity building; and websites.
The members of Euro-AEGIS have a well established track record of collaboration with national governments and international agencies; GIS and remote sensing applications expertise; desk-top-publishing and website development; close contacts with the European research community.
List of Euro-AEGIS projects
EDENext - Emerging diseases in a changing European environment - Time-frame: 2011-2015 (four years). Funding Agency: European Commission - FP7 (Brussels, Belgium). Executing Agency: Avia-GIS and ERGO are part, as Euro-AEGIS , of a consortium of 46 partners led by CIRAD (Montpellier, France), and are in charge of spatial data management and training; disease information systems; denominator population and wind modelling. Geographical Keyword: Europe. General Keywords: Operational management, Training, Data-management, Information systems Modelling, Emerging Vector-borne Diseases, Environmental Change, Public Health.
VBORNET - European network for arthropod vector surveillance for human public health - Time-frame: 2009-2013 (four years) - Funding Agency: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden - Executing Agency: Avia-GIS is leading a consortium of 11 partners and is in charge of coordination, the development of the network, as well as the development of the network databases and web-based mapping tools - Geographical keyword: European Community, European Overseas Territories - General Keywords: Vector-borne Disease Network, Vector Distribution Maps, Public Health, Mosquitoes, Ticks, Phlebotomines.
EPOC3 (E3) - Proof of Concept studies - Time Frame: 2009-2011 (18 months). Funding agency: ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden; Executing Agency: Euro-AEGIS is in charge of a series of studies designed to illustrate potential uses of spatial data in the analysis of disease risk in the context of climate change, in the context of the proposed European Environment and Epidemiology (E3) Network - Geographical Keyword: Europe - General Keywords: Spatial Data Analysis, Projection, Vector-borne Diseases, Food-borne diseases, Water-borne Diseases, Climate Change, Dengue, TBE, Leptospirosis, Salmonellosis.
EDENDMT3 (E3) - EDEN-DMT bridging Grant - Time Frame: 2009-2011 (one year). Funding agency: ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden - Executing Agency: Euro-AEGIS. A grant provided to: i) assist with data provision and strategic design for the proposed European Environment and Epidemiology (E3) Network and, ii) maintain the EDEN website and its support to the EDEN partner community until the start of the EDENext project in 2011 - Geographical Keyword: Europe - General Keywords: Data-management, Information systems, Emerging Vector-borne Diseases, Environmental Change, Public Health.
V-borne - Assessment of magnitude and importance of vector-borne diseases in Europe - Timeframe: 2007-2008 (six months) - Funding Agency: ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden - Executing Agency: Euro-AEGIS is part of a consortium of 16 partners led by CIRAD (Montpellier, France), and is in charge of operational management and spatial modelling - Geographical keyword: Europe, Overseas Territories - General keywords: Vector borne diseases, Emerging diseases, Disease risk assessment, Priority identification, Action plan development, Mosquitoes, Ticks, Phlebotomines, Rodents (and a list of 20+ diseases).
EDEN - Emerging diseases in a changing European environment - Time-frame: 2004-2009 (five years) - Funding Agency: European Commission - FP6 (Brussels, Belgium) - Executing Agency: Euro-AEGIS is part of a consortium of 49 partners led by CIRAD (Montpellier, France) in charge of spatial data management and disease information systems - Geographical Keyword: Europe, Northern Africa, Western Africa - General Keywords: Operational management, Training, Data-management and Information systems, Emerging Vector-borne Diseases, Environmental Change, Public Health.