{"id":9488,"date":"2022-01-18T09:33:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T08:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceab.csic.es\/the-farseer-project-has-been-a-finalist-for-the-european-innovation-council-eic-innovation-awards\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T09:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T08:33:36","slug":"the-farseer-project-has-been-a-finalist-for-the-european-innovation-council-eic-innovation-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceab.csic.es\/en\/the-farseer-project-has-been-a-finalist-for-the-european-innovation-council-eic-innovation-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"The FARSEER project has been a finalist for the European Innovation Council (EIC) Innovation Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

A consortium led by the CSIC<\/a>, specifically by the Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes<\/strong> (CEAB-CSIC) and the researcher Frederic Bartumeus<\/strong> and with the participation of Pompeu Fabra University<\/a>, the Benaki Institute of Phytopathology<\/a> (Greece), the Spanish SME Irideon<\/a>, the Belgian SME Avia-GIS<\/a> and the Oxford Environmental Research Group ERGO<\/a>, have developed the FARSEER project, an early warning system capable of providing real-time and effective information for public health technicians to prepare a response. appropriate to the risk of an epidemiological outbreak of mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue, Zika, or West Nile fever, in order to reduce or prevent the threat.<\/span><\/p>\n

The project has been carried out within the framework of the European Commission’s<\/a> EIC (European Innovation Council<\/a>) innovation awards. These are awards for innovative solutions to different global challenges. Specifically, the challenge we have faced is: Early detection of epidemics. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Specifically, the challenge was to develop a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective prototype early warning system for predicting and monitoring vector-borne diseases such as malaria or Zika in order to reduce or prevent the threat.<\/span><\/p>\n