Project: Wildlife, Agricultural soils, Water environments and antimicrobial resistance - what is known, needed and feasible for global Environmental Surveillance

Acronym	WAWES (Reference Number: JPIAMR_2018_N018)
Duration	01/01/2019 - 31/12/2019
Project Topic	The World Health Organisation (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and World organisation for Animal health (OIE), agree that surveillance of antibiotic/antimicrobial resistant bacteria (AMR) should be performed using a One Health multi-sectoral approach. Despite this, there is an overall lack of surveillance focusing on the environment and wildlife. Furthermore, there is unquestionably a lack of standardisation and synergy between projects and research efforts focusing on AMR in the environment and wildlife. The JPIAMR Strategic research agenda published in 2013 also highlighted the lack of data, comparable information and cross-sectoral studies on AMR in the environment. To amend this, we have initiated the WAWES network - Wildlife, Agricultural soils, Water environments and antimicrobial resistance - what is known, needed and feasible for global Environmental Surveillance, which consists of 27 partners from 16 countries from all over the globe representing low to high income settings. The WAWES participants have a shared objective of finding a way to perform global comparative surveillance of AMR in the environment and wildlife, which is furthermore applicable in the majority of countries irrespective of economic resources. Due to the complexity of the environment WAWES will in the initial phase focus on wildlife, agricultural soils and water environments, including wastewater.
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Network	JPI AMR
Call	7th Joint Call of JPIAMR

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	National Veterinary Institute	Coordinator	Sweden
2	National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety	Observer	France
3	Maynooth University	Observer	Ireland
4	Technische Universität Dresden	Observer	Germany
5	Animal and Plant Health Agency	Observer	United Kingdom
6	University of South Australia	Observer	Australia
7	University of Guelph	Observer	Canada
8	University of Western Ontario	Observer	Canada
9	Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative Ontario/Nunavut	Observer	Canada
10	Shandong University	Observer	China
11	Tsinghua University	Observer	China
12	University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences	Observer	Czech Republic
13	Université de Limoges	Observer	France
14	Universität Greifswald	Observer	Germany
15	Istituto Superiore di Sanità	Observer	Italy
16	Wageningen University & Research	Observer	Netherlands
17	Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu	Observer	Netherlands
18	The Norwegian Veterinary Institute	Observer	Norway
19	Norwegian Institute for Water Research	Observer	Norway
20	National Veterinary Research Institute	Observer	Poland
21	University of Warsaw	Observer	Poland
22	Uppsala University	Observer	Sweden
23	Swedish University of agricultural Sciences	Observer	Sweden
24	National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water, and Forestry	Observer	Tunisia
25	Institut Supérieur des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie de Mahdia	Observer	Tunisia
26	VNU University of Science	Observer	Viet Nam
27	Universidade de São Paulo	Observer	Brazil