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The Multi-site application of Open Science in the creAtion of healthy environments Involving local Communities (MOSAIC) project emerges from the notion that the interdependence between environmental integrity and human wellbeing can no longer be treated as an abstract concept. Across the globe, the accelerating pace of environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate instability is producing tangible, measurable, and often devastating consequences for human health. These consequences are not evenly distributed: they are disproportionately borne by communities living in ecologically fragile regions, often in cross border territories where governance is complex, resources are scarce, and vulnerabilities are compounded by socioeconomic marginalisation. In this context, the traditional model of scientific research, where experts collect and analyse data that will then eventually be transposed into policy recommendations, is no longer sufficient. The complex interdependency between environmental, animal, and human health, as posed by the One Health and Planetary Health holistic approaches, and the challenges emerging from it call for a different model: one that is participatory, transdisciplinary, and open. This is the rationale and foundation of the MOSAIC project, placing the involvement of local communities and Open Science as a priority. MOSAIC is a Horizon Europe initiative that explicitly aligns itself with Planetary Health and One Health, recognising that human health, animal health, and the health of ecosystems are inseparable. Furthermore, the project takes the principles of Open Science not only as a technical standard for data sharing, but as a core for project development and contribution, being a vector for transparency, inclusivity, and knowledge cocreation. MOSAIC’s geographical focus is both strategic and symbolic as the project focuses on two ecologically rich, socially diverse, and geopolitically complex bioregions: with one study site encompassing territories in the cross border area between Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa; and two study sites covering territories of the Amazonian cross border areas – one spanning the French Guiana and Brazil border, and another the Brazil, Colombia, and Peru border. These are places where environmental change is not a distant threat but a lived reality, and where communities are already grappling with the health impacts of such phenomena as deforestation, land use change, pollution, and climate driven extreme events. Additionally, with these being country borders, there is also the problem of human-made administrative borders cutting across ecological systems and cultural landscapes, giving rise to governance challenges that require cooperation across jurisdictions, sectors, and stakeholders. At its core, MOSAIC seeks to design and implement open, multimodal, and replicable information ecosystems that empower local and border communities to understand, anticipate, and respond to the health impacts of environmental change. The project’s vision aims to create the conditions to develop and foster collective intelligence, shared capacity to observe, interpret, and act upon complex socioecological dynamics. This vision translates into a set of interlinked objectives.
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MOSAIC Open Science Healthy environments Local communities
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Costa, E P V D S M D, Louro, A, Abrantes, P C D R M, Morgado , P & Franco, P F D 2025, MOSAIC – Multi-site application of Open Science in the creation of healthy environments involving local communities : IGOT-ULisboa Report (M1–M18). Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa.
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Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa