CONCERT was a Joint European Program with the aim of contributing to the sustainable integration of European and national research programs in the field of radiation protection (2015-2020). The consortium was made up of 36 institutions from 23 EU member states, Norway and Switzerland and six European research platforms(MELODI, ALLIANCE, NERIS, EURADOS, EURAMED and SHARE, which operate in the areas of human radiation effects, radioecology, nuclear emergency preparedness, dosimetry, medical radiation protection and the integration of social sciences and humanities in the area of ionizing radiation, respectively).
CONCERT developed its strategic plan based on the work of these platforms and supported the establishment of a European research platform in the field of medical radiation protection. CONCERT has thus become an integral structure for the research agendas of European research platforms and national research programs. The EURATOM 2014-2020 Program, a European Commission program for nuclear research and training, co-financed up to 70% of CONCERT's total eligible costs.
One of CONCERT's objectives was to fund innovative and multidisciplinary research projects in radiological protection. Information on the 2016 and 2017 Joint Transnational Calls can be found at the following links.
FCT developed its activities in CONCERT by contributing to WP4 (organization and management of the two CONCERT Calls for funding multidisciplinary and transnational research and innovation projects in radiological protection), as described in the AIR²bulletin ofApril 2018.
This project has received funding from the Euratom research and training program 2014-2018, under grant agreement No. 662287