The ExposUM institute aims to establish a reference institute for the study, training and science-society interaction of the exposome, i. What is the exposome? The exposome is the sum total of an individual's lifelong exposure to the environmental and social factors that influence his or her health, as well as the onset, progression and severity of infectious and non-communicable human diseases.
In this sense, the exposome is the environmental counterpart of the genome. Thus, research on the exposome can just as easily be concerned with environmental pollution, water, air or soil quality, vector-borne diseases, access to healthcare, ways of living in a given area, health inequalities, public health policies, etc. The aim of the Institut ExposUM's Interfaces axis is to create a dynamic for valorizing research results at the interface between science and society. At the academic level, the Interfaces axis aims to strengthen interdisciplinarity around the exposome, by encouraging dialogue between the social sciences sociology, anthropology, geography, etc.
The Interfaces axis supports ExposUM-funded project teams to encourage interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes within projects, if deemed relevant by the project leaders, and to foster collaboration between project teams. This support is offered to all volunteer winning teams. In , this represents 14 potential teams 7 research projects, 5 doctoral nexuses, 2 fellowships , to which the winning teams from subsequent years will be added.
Find out more about community development Events must include at least one communication activity conference, event, film or documentary screening to showcase the initiative at the Science-Society interface and share transdisciplinary experience across the I-SITE. This support is intended to support and promote transdisciplinary research-action initiatives that are in the design phase funding exploratory actions to enable a future research-action project , in progress funding internships, surveys, dissemination events or completed promoting the initiative.
Supported events will include at least one communication action to highlight the transdisciplinary initiative and share experience on the levers and barriers of transdisciplinarity at I-SITE level. A call for incubation of territorial projects s, aimed at identifying and supporting projects around health-environment issues with high territorial impact has been published until June It is now closed.
