HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02 – Environment and health 101136659 

TULIP SCOPE

Focus
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), plastic pollution & climate change in aquatic environments

Evidence
A transdisciplinary socio-ecological systems thinking approach, robust environmental science methods, eco-epidemiology, modelling, adaptive sampling design and state-of-the-art molecular tools to generate scientific evidence on plastic-AMR-climate interactions

Solutions
Methodology of intervention and social sciences to explore social driving factors and current policies and design and evaluate community-based interventions and nature-based solutions

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Pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), plastic pollution and climate change are interconnected

Microplastics (MP) is a unique microhabitat for free-living and surface-attached bacterial communities “the plastisphere” where they form biofilms facilitating horizontal transfer (HGT) of antibiotic-resistance genes among bacteria. 

Antimicrobial resistome of the plastisphere is plastic resistome. It can spread in aquatic environments under the impacts of climate change on hydrological processes. Temperature changes may prolong the period suitable for cell division and HGT, creating new habitats for bacteria to exist, spread and develop. Aquatic environments are interfaces for the socio-ecological interactions between  humans,  animals  and  the waters  containing  plastic  resistome,  facilitating exposure to water-borne AMR.

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The tulip consortium

TULIP is an European Union financed research consortium of 12 Universities, Institutions and Companies. All consortium members are working hand in hand to optimise Planetay Health.

Our mission

Providing evidence based scientific solutions and recommendations to cope with climate change and anthropogenic challenges. Utilising novel approaches based on Planetary  Health  & socio-ecological systems  thinking

THE TULIP PROJECT

Our scientific work contributes to an optimal Planetary Health

WE WORK WITH

The TULIP Consortium

Our Team

Prof Joacim Rocklöv

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Dr Marina Treskova

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Uliana Kachnova

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Pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), plastic pollution and climate change are interconnected.

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