{"id":2284,"date":"2022-02-03T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/03\/eic-horizon-prize-on-early-warning-for-epidemics-commission-awards-e5-million-to-winning-project\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T15:08:36","slug":"eic-horizon-prize-on-early-warning-for-epidemics-commission-awards-e5-million-to-winning-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodatahub.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/03\/eic-horizon-prize-on-early-warning-for-epidemics-commission-awards-e5-million-to-winning-project\/","title":{"rendered":"EIC Horizon Prize on Early Warning for Epidemics: Commission awards \u20ac5 million to winning project"},"content":{"rendered":"

EIC Horizon Prize on Early Warning for Epidemics: Commission awards \u20ac5 million to winning project
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Thu, 03\/02\/2022 – 16:08<\/span><\/p>\n

The winner of the \u20ac5 million\u00a0EIC Horizon Prize on Early Warning for Epidemics<\/a>\u00a0is Greece-based project\u00a0EarlY WArning System for Mosquito-borne Diseases (EYWA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Every year, more than 1 billion people suffer from vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, or yellow fever. To help prevent and mitigate the impact of such outbreaks, the European Commission launched a prize to reward the best Earth observation-based prototype to forecast and monitor vector-borne diseases.<\/p>\n

Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said:\u00a0<\/p>\n

My sincere congratulations to EYWA \u2013 the winner of the EIC Horizon Prize on Early Warning for Epidemics. The solution, based on Earth observation and other data, improves Europe\u2019s preparedness to fight vector-borne diseases, also addressing the effects of climate change on human health, at home and abroad. A special mention goes to the other two finalists of this important prize, D-MOSS and FARSEER, for their outstanding work. I am both proud and grateful that European excellence has demonstrated once again to be capable of providing solutions to global challenges.<\/p>\n

EYWA is a key weapon in the arsenal to fight epidemics. It transforms scientific knowledge into a decision-making tool, contributing significantly to combatting and controlling the threat of mosquito-borne diseases. The solution enhances mosquito surveillance and control at various spatio-temporal scales and in different climatic zones, and guides day to day prevention and mitigation actions. It significantly reduces the entomological risk and results in the aversion of human cases in thousands of villages where EYWA is employed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The technological novelty of EYWA lies in the efficient handling of multiple data sources such as entomological, epidemiological, Earth Observation, crowd and ancillary geospatial data, along with dynamic and data driven models to generate knowledge on the mosquitoes\u2019 abundance and pathogens\u2019 transmission. Thanks to data provided by Copernicus satellites and Copernicus Core Services, EYWA reliably depicts the dynamics of mosquito habitats and breeding sites. The system capitalises on European investments in Earth observation and cloud-based data repositories and capacities (i.e. DIAS, GEOSS, NextGEOSS).<\/p>\n

Background<\/h2>\n

Under its pilot version, the\u00a0European Innovation Council<\/a>\u00a0(EIC) promoted several Horizon Prizes to be awarded to the most innovative solutions to societal challenges. These prizes call for breakthrough solutions that demonstrate their feasibility or potential, so that innovators can take them quickly to the market and reach those in need. EIC Horizon Prizes are funded under Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme\u00a0for\u00a0Research\u00a0and Innovation that preceded\u00a0Horizon Europe<\/a>. The EIC Horizon Prize for Early Warning for Epidemics was\u00a0launched\u00a0on 26 April 2018.<\/p>\n

More information<\/h2>\n

Factsheet<\/a><\/p>\n

Teaser (video)<\/a><\/p>\n

EYWA, prize winner (video)<\/a><\/p>\n

D-Moss, prize finalist (video)<\/a><\/p>\n

FARSEER, prize finalist (video)<\/a><\/p>\n

Thu, 03\/02\/2022 – 12:00 <\/p>\n

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