Project name: Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals

Project acronym: PARC

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dimosthenis Sarrigiannis

CUP: I14G20000000007

Description: PARC is an EU-wide research and innovation partnership programme to support EU and national chemical risk assessment and risk management bodies with new data, knowledge, methods, networks and skills to address current, emerging and novel chemical safety challenges. PARC will facilitate the transition to next generation risk assessment to better protect human health and the environment, in line with the Green Deals zero-pollution ambition for a toxic free environment and will be an enabler for the future EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability.

PARC will organise the activities to reach three specific objectives:

- An EU-wide sustainable cross-disciplinary network to identify and agree on research and innovation needs and to support research uptake into regulatory chemical risk assessment. 

- Joint EU research and innovation activities responding to identified priorities in support of current regulatory risk assessment processes for chemical substances and to emerging challenges.

- Strengthening existing capacities and building new transdisciplinary platforms to support chemical risk assessment.

The Partnership brings together Ministries and national public health and risk assessment agencies, as well as research organisations and academia from almost all EU Member States. Representatives of Directorates-General of the EC and EU agencies involved in the monitoring of chemicals and the assessment of risks are also participating. PARC will meet the needs of risk assessment agencies to better anticipate emerging risks and respond to the challenges and priorities of the new European policies.

Funding Institution: European Commission

Project starting date: 01/05/2022

Project end date: 30/04/2029

Website: https://www.eu-parc.eu/

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement N. 101057014