Description
In tropical areas, Aedes mosquitos cause >100 million symptomatic cases/year of viral diseases, such as dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika, and thousands of deaths. With increasing trade and travel, several Aedes species have been introduced into Europe and are now spreading spectacularly rapidly becoming a widespread significant public health risk which needs to be effectively addressed, as testified by recent cases of autochthonous chikungunya and dengue transmission.
Transboundary risks require effective surveillance, risk assessment, and vector control, with efficient dissemination of information and guidance to stakeholders, requiring collaboration between the normative, research, public health, commercial and civil society sectors at international, national and local scales. This is not happening. Despite the range of institutional guidelines available, current mitigation activities are largely uncoordinated, and implemented piecemeal nationally or locally, reducing cost-effectiveness and impact.
AIM Cost Action will build a gender, age and geographically balanced network from critical stakeholder sectors. The Action will assess and review current surveillance, control and analysis practices, develop best practice guidelines and protocols ensuring consistency across Europe. It will facilitate development of new tools and identify priority research topics. Recommendations to standardise and streamline entomological and spatial analysis will promote enhanced risk assessments needed for reliable targeting and planning. Critical elements maximising impact will be involvement of civil society and citizen scientists, as well as collaborative dissemination ensuring that technical outputs and guidelines are customised at different geographical scales for each operational stakeholder group. Lessons learned will be transferrable to other emerging vector borne diseases worldwide.
Action keywords
Medical Entomology - Invasive Mosquitoes - Mosquito vector monitoring and surveillance - Mosquito vector control - Risk of Arbovirus (dengue, chikungunya, zika) transmission
Management Committee
Country | MC Member |
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Albania | |
Albania | |
Austria | |
Austria | |
Belgium | |
Belgium | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
Bulgaria | |
Bulgaria | |
Croatia | |
Croatia | |
Cyprus | |
Cyprus | |
Czech Republic | |
Czech Republic | |
Denmark | |
France | |
France | |
Germany | |
Germany | |
Greece | |
Greece | |
Hungary | |
Hungary | |
Ireland | |
Israel | |
Israel | |
Italy | |
Italy | |
Malta | |
Moldova | |
Montenegro | |
Montenegro | |
Netherlands | |
Netherlands | |
North Macedonia | |
North Macedonia | |
Norway | |
Norway | |
Poland | |
Portugal | |
Portugal | |
Romania | |
Romania | |
Serbia | |
Serbia | |
Slovakia | |
Slovenia | |
Slovenia | |
Spain | |
Spain | |
Sweden | |
Sweden | |
Switzerland | |
Switzerland | |
Türkiye | |
Türkiye | |
United Kingdom | |
United Kingdom |
Main Contacts
Action Contacts
COST Staff
Leadership
Role | Leader |
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Action Chair | |
Action Vice-Chair | |
Grant Holder Scientific Representative | |
Science Communication Coordinator | |
Grant Awarding Coordinator | |
WG1 Leader | |
WG2 Leader | |
WG3 Leader |
Additional roles
Role | Leader |
---|---|
ITC CG Coordinator | |
STSM Coordinator |
Working Groups
Number | Title | Leader |
---|---|---|
1 | Monitoring and surveillancecand Exotic AIM Borne Viruses | |
2 | Conventional and innovative control tools for Aedes Invasive Mosquitoes | |
3 | Dissemination, customisation and communication |
Membership
Name | Working Group | Country |
---|---|---|
WG 1 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Italy | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Greece | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Ireland | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Portugal | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Serbia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Albania | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Bulgaria | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Italy | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Tunisia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | United Kingdom | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Portugal | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Portugal | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Greece | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Romania | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Norway | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Montenegro | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Belgium | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Türkiye | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Morocco | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | North Macedonia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Croatia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Albania | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Bosnia & Herzegovina | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Croatia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Italy | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Ireland | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Belgium | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Greece | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Italy | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Belgium | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Italy | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Slovakia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Greece | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 3 | Austria | |
WG 1 | Armenia | |
WG 1 | Denmark | |
WG 1, WG 2 | Croatia | |
WG 1, WG 2 | North Macedonia | |
WG 1, WG 2 | North Macedonia | |
WG 1 | ||
WG 1 | Italy | |
WG 1 | Moldova | |
WG 1, WG 2 | Montenegro | |
WG 1, WG 3 | Montenegro | |
WG 1 | Norway | |
WG 1 | Portugal | |
WG 1 | Romania | |
WG 1 | Serbia | |
WG 1, WG 2 | Spain | |
WG 1 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 3 | Sweden | |
WG 1 | Sweden | |
WG 1, WG 3 | Türkiye | |
WG 1 | Türkiye | |
WG 1 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Serbia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Greece | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Serbia | |
WG 1 | Switzerland | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1 | Romania | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | North Macedonia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Portugal | |
WG 1 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Moldova | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Switzerland | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1 | ||
WG 1 | Germany | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Austria | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | United Kingdom | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Germany | |
WG 1 | Serbia | |
WG 1 | ||
WG 1 | Croatia | |
WG 1 | ||
WG 1 | ||
WG 1 | Switzerland | |
WG 1 | Bulgaria | |
WG 1, WG 2 | Romania | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Türkiye | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Portugal | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Armenia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Tunisia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Kosovo* | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Georgia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Germany | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Netherlands | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Belgium | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Switzerland | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Serbia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Croatia | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Italy | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Italy | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Romania | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | Spain | |
WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 | ||