The HBM4EU Management Board consists of the Coordinator, the Co- Coordinator, the Pillar Leaders, the National Hub Coordinator, and the leaders of all Work Packages. The European Commission is invited as an observer when deemed relevant.
The thirteen members of the Management Board are listed below. They may be substituted at meetings of the Management Board by fully mandated representatives.
Argelia Castaño |
Institute of Health Carlos III |
Catherine Ganzleben |
European Environment Agency |
Dimosthenis Sarigiannis |
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
Mirjam Luijten, formerly Erik Lebret |
Dutch National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) |
Greet Schoeters |
VITO |
Hanna Tolonen |
National Institute for Health and Welfare |
Jana Klánová |
Masaryk University, Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX) |
Jean-Philippe Antignac |
French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) |
Marike Kolossa-Gehring |
German Environment Agency (UBA) |
Marieta Fernandez, formerly Nicolas Olea |
University of Granada |
Ovnair Sepai |
Public Health England |
Robert Barouki |
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) |
Ulrike Fiddicke |
German Environment Agency (UBA) |
The Management Board oversees the implementation of the HBM4EU according to the overall 5-year plan and the annual work plans. It monitors progress against the milestones and deliverables and is responsible for overall quality control of project outputs.
The Management Board promotes coordination and collaboration across the three Pillars, and the Work Packages therein. This involves maintaining a dialogue with the National Hubs and fostering their engagement.
The Management Board oversees all resource expenditure under the project.
All decision to be set before the Governing Board are prepared by the Management Board. The Board is responsible for informing the Governing Board about the ethics and legal framework for the project, implemented through ethics controls and the Data Management Plan.
The Management Board will also inform the Governing Board regarding links to other relevant initiatives at national, EU and global level.
Should the consortium encounter problems during project implementation, then the Management Board is responsible for developing solutions. The Management Board can refer to the Governing Board if no agreement can be found or if the solution requires major deviations from agreed work plans.
The Management Board meets six times per year.
The minutes of the Management Board meetings are available below.
Management Board meeting minutes 19-20 May 2022
Management Board meeting minutes 24-25 March 2022
Management Board meeting minutes 27-28 January 2022
Management Board meeting minutes 18-19 November 2021
Management Board meeting minutes 09-10 September 2021
Management Board meeting minutes 16-18 June 2021
Management Board meeting minutes 20-21 May 2021
Management Board meeting minutes 18-19 March 2021
Management Board meeting minutes 28-29 January 2021
Management Board meeting minutes 12-13 November 2020
Management Board meeting minutes 10-11 September 2020
Management Board meeting minutes 24-26 June 2020
Management Board meeting minutes 18-19 May 2020
Management Board meeting minutes 12 March 2020
Management Board meeting minutes 30-31 January 2020
Management Board meeting minutes 14-15 November 2019
Management Board meeting minutes 05-06 September 2019
Management Board meeting minutes 26-28 June 2019
Management Board meeting minutes 06 May 2019
Management Board meeting minutes 04-05 March 2019
Management Board meeting minutes 24-25 January 2019
Management Board meeting minutes 21 November 2018
Management Board meeting minutes 15-16 November 2018
Management Board meeting minutes 03-04 September 2018
Management Board meeting minutes 16 August 2018 (telephone conference)
Management Board meeting minutes 28-29 June 2018
Management Board meeting minutes 08 May 2018
Management Board meeting minutes 05-06 March 2018
Management Board meeting minutes 26 January 2018
Management Board meeting minutes 10 November 2017
Management Board meeting minutes 09 September 2017
Management Board meeting minutes 25 August 2017
Management Board meeting minutes 25 July 2017
Management Board meeting minutes 29-30 June 2017
Management Board meeting minutes 4 May 2017
Management Board meeting minutes 27 March 2017
Management Board meeting minutes 3 January 2017
Disclaimer
The HBM4EU project was launched in 2016 with the aim of improving the collective understanding of human exposure to hazardous chemicals and developing HBM as an exposure assessment method. The project had €74m in funding and jointly implemented by 120 partners from 28 participating countries – 24 EU member states plus Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Israel and the European Environment Agency. One of its aims was to ensure the sustainability of HBM in the EU beyond 2021. The project ended in June 2022. The website will not be updated any longer, except the page on peer reviewed publications, but will be online until 2032.
