The application was sent to the European Commission as part of the Staff Exchanges funding scheme of the EU’s Horizon program. Just 83 of 329 applications for the initiative were accepted, including the OneTick project.

Learning From Ticks in a Time of Climate Change
OneTick is a project that will investigate tick-borne diseases from a wide perspective that includes humans, animals and the environment. The researchers will build a model to investigate how tick populations are likely to be affected by climate change in urban and suburban habitats, such as parks, gardens and playgrounds.

This model should enable scientists to more accurately predict risk from ticks in urban settings, and to develop programs to control and prevent tick-borne diseases.

A Europe-Wide Response is Built
Apart from research, OneTick also strives to help develop a shared European surveillance system for diagnosing, reporting, and managing these diseases. The Horizon program of EU, which finances the current initiative, fosters international and interdisciplinary collaboration of research institutions, and ensures knowledge transfer between academia and non-academia.