Improving the quality of life of persons with intellectual disabilities and their families

Expected Outcome:

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several expected impacts of destination “Living and working in a health-promoting environment”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed, tailored and contributing to most of the following expected outcomes:

• Global and EU policies preventing and reducing the health impacts of pollution are supported with up-to-date scientific evidence, tools and methodologies;
• Citizens are more protected by having a better insight into exposure to pollution and its impacts on brain health and adopting health enhancing behaviours;
• Public authorities, health stakeholders, the scientific community and the society at large have access to FAIR^[1] data on the link between pollution and brain health, particular windows of susceptibility to exposure and the impacts of pollution on the general population and vulnerable groups;
• Public authorities develop adequate evidence-based measures and guidelines to prevent and reduce the negative impacts of pollution in the development of brain disease.

Please note that the first deadline has now passed and the second closed 16 April 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time.

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