The Episouth project is articulated in 8 WorkPackages (WP) led by Public Health Institutes.
The main partner (ISS Italy) has developed a framework where all the managerial aspects are being included (WP1) and the information produced by the project are being disseminated (WP2).
Three vertical WPs, "Cross-border epidemic intelligence-WP6" (InVS, France), "Vaccines and migrants-WP7" (NCIPD, Bulgaria) and "Cross-border emerging zoonoses-WP8" (HCDCP, Greece) constitute the technical basis.
The two horizontal Work Packages, "Network-WP4" (Padua, Italy) and "Training-WP5" (ISCIII, Spain) provide the skills, networking and capacity building in order to match the vertical Work Packages. The project is evaluated through a dedicated Work Package (WP3).
The Project Steering Committee is composed by the 6 WP leaders Countries plus ECDC, EC-SANCO, WHO EURO, WHO EMRO and WHO LYO representatives as observers, in order to facilitate synergy and avoid overlapping.
The participation of the Countries and the International Organisations to the project foresees three different levels of active involvement: |