On December 4-5, 2025, an expert workshop was held at the headquarters of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation on the topic “The path towards climate and health research in the shifting EU policy landscape”
The main topics discussed at the workshop were:
- Are the research priorities changing along with the political ones (and if so, how)?
- Where does climate change and health research fit in the new geopolitical and competitiveness landscape?
- How can we ensure that the most urgent issues remain at the top of the agenda to ensure impact?
In total, the workshop included presentation and sessions with eighteen international experts from public administration (European Environment Agency, Welcome Trust, European Innovation Council, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Helath Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority of the European Commission, Joint Reasearch Centre of the European Commission, World Health Organization), non-profit organizations, and academia, including Spiros Mourelatos, who was the only participant coming from the private sector. More specifically he was ask to “to provide his perspectives on the concrete challenges and (market) opportunities faced by technology developers in terms of scale-up and market uptake of climate and health technologies and innovations”.
In this context, Spiros Mourelatos presented the data infrastructure managed by Ecodevlepment, the products used in mosquito control projects (predictions and decision support systems), and finally the potential for further development and commercial exploitation of these products in order to utilize them on a larger scale. Finally, he participated in specially organized thematic sessions for the European Commission to draft a policy paper, expected to be published in mid-2026. This workshop is a follow-up to a relevant high-level conference held in February 2024, in which Spiros Mourelatos also participated as a invited speaker (https://ecodev.gr/en/spiros-mourelatos-at-the-two-day-high-level-conference-of-the-european-commission-19-20-02-2024/) and which resulted in the current policy paper published in May 2025. (https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/616cce9c-39e5-11f0-8a44-01aa75ed71a1).
