The MOSAIC Project Featured at the ONE H Congress

The MOSAIC project was featured at the international ONE H Congress 2026 held in Saint-Quay-Portrieux, France, from June 3–5. Funded under the Horizon Europe program (Planetary Health), the project reflected the event’s central mission—bridging scientific insights and local experience to drive tangible actions for human, animal, and ecosystem health through the One Health framework.

During one of the sessions, the MOSAIC project team showcased a collective position paper co-authored by Dr Emmanuel Roux (IRD, Project Coordinator) alongside consortium partners, including ICM UW’s Dr Aneta Afelt. The talk underscored that bridging scientific expertise with first-hand local knowledge is key to making the One Health approach work in practice. The authors noted that tackling interrelated crises—environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and emerging health risks—requires more than just high-level research: it demands direct engagement from citizens, local organizations, and policymakers. In response, MOSAIC is designing co-creation methodologies to turn research into actionable, ground-level solutions for human, animal, and ecosystem well-being.

The poster session provided a platform to feature the outputs of Łukasz Dumiszewski’s group at ICM UW, which oversees MOSAIC’s data infrastructure and IT services—ranging from data repositories and the integration of distributed knowledge sources to search-and-discovery tools tailored for researchers and community stakeholders.

Their poster, “Towards a knowledge graph-based resource catalogue to facilitate One Health resource discovery,” outlined a graph-based directory engineered to map and interlink diverse One Health assets. This tool is designed to help researchers, leaders, and community members quickly locate the datasets, tools, and publications required to address pressing health and environmental risks.

Additionally, Dr Aneta Afelt showcased her work on thermal comfort in mid-sized urban areas through the poster “Heat load in medium-sized cities.” Her findings contribute directly to ongoing research on urban thermal stress and the lived reality of heatwaves in built environments.

The conference convened delegates from premier scientific bodies, international organizations, and key advocates of the One Health framework, such as ANSES, WOAH, CNRS, the One Sustainable Health Forum, FRB, and the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. Speakers and attendees comprised experts from universities, research institutes, European and global institutions, and government bodies. Bringing together participants from at least 16 nations, the congress served as a dynamic platform for exchanging insights on human, animal, and ecosystem well-being.

More informations on One Health 2026 here: https://onehcongress.innozh.fr/

MOSAIC (Multi-site application of Open Science in the creAtion of healthy environments Involving local Communities) is a project focused on open, multimodal, and replicable information ecosystems supporting cross-border communities. MOSAIC secured funding under the Horizon Europe call: Environment and health – Planetary health (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02-01). The initiative is being carried out by an international consortium of 15 institutions led by the French IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement). ICM UW’s role is to develop data infrastructure and software for stakeholders. The leader of the Polish MOSAIC team is Dr. Aneta Afelt (Assistant Professor at ICM UW and member of the Espace-DEV research group affiliated with IRD).

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