2-FUN

Project Summary

2-FUN aims to provide decision-makers with state of the art tools to analyse the current and future trends in environmental conditions and pressures that may lead to health problems. It will support the evaluation and ranking of management options through a range of functionalities able to generate outputs of high concern for health risk assessment: building of long-term environmental and socio-economic scenarios, exposure and effects assessment, provision of uncertainty margins, and identification of sensitive pathways and risks.

Specific scientific actions are taking place to develop methodologies, databases, models, and software on the following topics:

• Building future realistic socio-economic, environmental and health scenarios;
• Integration of children’s issues in health risk assessments;
• Development of uncertainty models for improved health management;
• Demonstrations of a full-chain approach for health risk assessment.

2-FUN in conjunction with HEIMTSA engages in a structured dialogue with all interested parties (stakeholders, policy-makers and researchers) to monitor large environment- and health-focused scientific initiatives and to incorporate stakeholders’ vision and needs regarding the development of tools for health risk assessment.

The tools developed will be tested on three contrasted case studies covering a range of temporal, spatial, sectorial, environmental, and societal contexts requiring comprehensive health risk assessments:

• Air pollution and climate change in Portugal;
• Choices of industrial technologies to minimise the impact on a river watershed in France;
• Health risk assessment for children living in Upper Silesia.

They will provide policy-makers with relevant and easy-to-use information.