INTERNATIONAL CALLS

ERA-NET JPIAMR-ACTION “AMR Interventions 2024”

1 February 2024 by

JPIAMR is launching an international call for projects under the umbrella of JPIAMR and within the framework of the ERA-NET JPIAMR-ACTION.

The call Interventions moving forward to promote action to counteract the emergence and spread of bacterial and fungal resistance and to improve treatments will involve 21 funders from 19 countries. The total estimated call budget is over 17,7 million Euro. To take action against the growing global threat of increased spread of antimicrobial (antibacterial and antifungal) resistance, this call will fund international collaborative research projects aiming to improve, compare and evaluate the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and uptake of existing interventions against bacterial or fungal infections and/or to design new interventions against fungal infections.

Through this call, the ERA-NET JPIAMR-ACTION intends to create and reinforce the collaboration between research partners coming from different countries and different fields of expertise to promote interventional research on antimicrobial resistance.

Secretariat at JPIAMR@moh.gov.il

  • Topics of the call

Topic 1: Design novel or improved interventions to prevent, mitigate, and /or treat fungal infections, which are resistant to treatments and/or are at risk of developing resistance. The novel interventions for Topic 1 may include, but are not limited to:  prevention strategies, treatments based on new or existing compounds or technologies, improved or novel diagnostics or surveillance

Topic 2: Improve and/or, compare and/or evaluate strategies, technologies, treatments, methods, protocols or data collection based on existing interventions, aiming to prevent or reduce the emergence or spread of antibacterial or antifungal resistance or to treat/cure infections caused by resistant bacteria/fungi and recommend new policies.

Within this topic, projects should address one or more of the following subtopics:

  • Improve and/or compare and/ or evaluate the effectiveness of existing interventions (e.g. cost-effectiveness clinical utility, socio-economic adaptability, reducing AMR emergence, spread, transmission, treatment etc.)
  • Identify the barriers to uptake, including factors leading to the success or failure of previously run pilot interventions, and when applicable design solutions to overcome them.

The prevention and/or mitigation interventions for Topic 2 may include, but are not limited to:

  • Treatment (e.g. wastewater, medical, technological etc.),
  • protocols
  • Social, societal and behavioral intervention (e.g. public awareness campaigns, provider audit and feedback, reimbursement penalties, prescription requirements, infection prevention, and control programs),
  • Stewardship efforts (e.g. antimicrobial or vaccination guidelines).

These interventions may use technological, digital, or AI-based approaches.

For all topics, reuse and/or improvement of the quality and sustainability of existing data is encouraged.

  • One Health settings

The call covers the following One Health settings:

  • Human Health;
  • Animal Health (including wildlife, livestock, aquatic organisms, and companion animals);
  • Plants (including trees and crops);
  • Environment (including natural and built environment).