Aims

The overarching goal of JPIAMR research on Surveillance is to standardise, improve and extend surveillance systems on antibiotic use and on AMR in humans, animals, food, and the larger environment. Surveillance is a pre-requisite for assessing the success of AMR stewardship measures, infection prevention and control, and the effectiveness of new therapeutic and diagnostic options.

In this network call JPIAMR will support networks of leading experts with the aim to enhance resource alignment and maximize existing and future efforts to combat AMR by pushing forward the conceptualisation of new ideas with the field of AMR Surveillance.

Scope of the call

Surveillance networks are essential to monitor the threat of AMR and guide public health policy. In order to understand antibiotic resistance, we must understand whether resistance genes are highly mobile and whether dominant pathogenic clones spread resistance globally. However, countries have different levels and methods of surveillance and many lack national reporting systems leading to major gaps in AMR surveillance and an urgent need to strengthen collaboration on global AMR surveillance.

The WHO GLASS Initiative is the first global collaborative effort to standardise AMR surveillance. GLASS is now working towards the integration of other surveillance initiatives on antimicrobial consumption and AMR in the food chain but surveillance activities that include data collection on the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria among healthy individuals and animals are also needed.

Applicants are invited to form JPIAMR networks that are expected to provide white papers, prospective views, guidelines and/or best practice/roadmap/systematic reviews and frameworks to identify key questions to be addressed or identify potential solutions to overcome barriers for AMR surveillance and the implementation of surveillance research studies.
JPIAMR networks may tackle one or more of the suggested focal areas below. However, these examples are neither mandatory nor limiting. Networks should address needs at a National and International level and encourage to include Low Middle Income Country (LMIC) aspects.

1. Impact of surveillance on prevention, intervention, clinical practice, infection control, treatment and patient management.
2. Surveillance of AMR in the healthy population: Risk factors; risk groups (e.g. migrants, travelers), reservoirs, and monitoring systems.
3. Surveillance of non-human AMR reservoirs: Strategies, models, and technologies for tracing AMR in food, animals and the environment.
4. Improvement and standardisation of methods.
5. Quality assurance, curation and sharing data.
6. Surveillance technology and tools: Optimization of methods for outbreaks, rapidly emerging clones, resource-poor settings and global coverage.
7. Social networks, big data and deep learning for AMR surveillance and prevention.

Eligibility

• Applications must be led by a coordinator from an eligible institution within one of the JPIAMR participating countries.
• A network needs to have at least 15 partners from 10 different countries. At least three of the partners must be from three different participating countries. It is also encouraged to include at least one partner from a Low Middle Income Country (LMIC).
• Individuals cannot act as network coordinator for more than one proposal.
• Members can be added continously to the network as it develops.
• Each funding organisation would potentially fund any high quality network, involving eligible participants, on any topic.
• Networks may combine two or more topics into one application.
• In the course of the JPIAMR peer review process, merging of related networks applying on similar and complimentary topics may be suggested.

Participating countries

A Network can be led by a coordinator from an eligible institution within one of the participating countries:

Belgium, France, Germany , Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom Other funding partners may be added until the launch of the call.

Budget

Up to 21 networks will be funded with up to 50 000 € each under this call. Note that the JPIAMR network calls do not fund research projects.

More information at: https://www.jpiamr.eu/activities/joint-calls/open-calls/7thcall/