Hans-Horst Konkolewsky

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6th Framework Programme on Research

• Hans-Horst Konkolewsky
• Director
• European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

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Role of the European Agency in European Research
activities (I)

• Agency Regulation
• The Agencys role shall be to collect technical,
  
• scientific and economic information on research
• into safety and health at work and on other
• research activities, which involve aspects
• connected with safety and health at work and
• disseminate the results of the research and
• research activities

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Role of the European Agency in European Research
activities (II)

• Conclusions of 2001 OSH strategy seminar
• Agency key role in co-ordinating research
• activities at EU level
• Development of Agency Topic Centre Research
• 12 European Occupational Safety and Health
• Research Institutes
• Networking and common goal of
• developing EU OSH research

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Agency role under the 6th Framework Programme

• Agency as a facilitator of OSH Research
• networking and EU OSH Research activity
• 6th Research Programme
• Lead to research information deliverables
• Enhance the EU OSH research information base
• Agency put research information to good use in
  disseminating to EU policy and decision-makers

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Community Strategy on Occupational Safety and
Health

• Agency develop Risk Observer for new and
• emerging risks Europes watch out tower
• for future OSH challenges to the workforce
• Continue development of Topic Centre
• Research activities in parallel 
• Agency is the EU body for dissemination of
• OSH information and results, including
  Research 
• Networking and information exchange and
• dissemination hosted by the
• global OSH portal

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Aim of todays information meeting (I)

• Bring together European OSH research institutes
  in one place at one time with key Commission
  players in the Research field
• Expressions of Interest fair degree of support
  for OSH projects e.g. your EoIs

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Aim of todays information meeting (II)

• opportunity for networking ready for
• Call for Proposals (starting December)
• opportunity to be informed by Commission
  officials on the state of play in OSH research
  possibilities
• assess main areas of research interest and next
  steps (timetable for action)