JPIAMR team submitting the EUP OHAMR proposal.

Proposal for European partnership on OHAMR submitted!

Last week, we finally submitted the proposal for the Horizon Europe partnership on One Health AntiMicrobial Resistance (EUP OHAMR) to the European Commission (EC).

The EUP OHAMR will consist of 51 organisations from 28 countries that together with the EC will commit over 340 MEUR over 10 years to boost One Health AMR R&I in all its dimensions: coordinating joint transnational calls, actions to strengthen the capacity of the AMR research community, provide frameworks for alignment of policy and stakeholder engagement, and tools to valorise the new knowledge for the benefit of citizens and society as a whole.

Thank you to all partners for your cooporation and support to develop the proposal!

Updated EUP OHAMR Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda

The strategic foundation of the European Partnership on One Health AMR (EUP OHAMR) is outlined in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), which covers research on bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites and resistance in pathogens that are transmitted among humans or between animals and humans, and present in the environment including wildlife having consequences on human health.

A first draft of the EUP OHAMR SRIA was published in May 2023 and after a final open consultation earlier this year, an updated version is now available:

Livestok, petri dish with bacteria, people in city street.

Job vacancies, European partnership on One Health AMR

The European partnership on One Health AMR (OHAMR) is one of the key partnerships that has been identified by the European Commission within the framework of the Horizon Europe programme to support Resarch & Innovation to respond to the challenges of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The first call and launch of other activities of this joint research programme between the European Commission and Member States are planned to take place in 2025.

The new partnership builds on the work of the Joint Programming Initiative on AMR (JPIAMR), but has a bigger ambition, as well as a stronger integration of social sciences and humanities, support of innovation, and international engagement to address the challenges of AMR.

The OHAMR partnership will be coordinated by the Swedish Research Council (SRC), who is currently hosting the JPIAMR secretariat. The SRC is now recruiting a Head of secretariat and a Scientific adviser to join the JPIAMR/OHAMR team in Stockholm, Sweden.

The application deadline for both positions is 20 August 2024.

Head of secretariat, European partnership on One Health AMR for the Swedish Research Council

Ref no: 2.2.1-2024-06278

As Head of the secretariat, you will coordinate and manage the European partnership OHAMR, with support from the secretariat. You will also lead and allocate other tasks within the secretariat, linked to the JPIAMR and other EU projects already in progress in the AMR area. The role requires some travel, primarily within the EU.

The tasks include:

  • Acting as project leader for the Swedish Research Council’s coordination of the European partnership OHAMR. This includes leading the coordination of the international collaboration according to the agreed governance structure of the partnership, and to ensure correct budget follow-up and reporting on the project to the EU.
  • Leading and delegating the work within the OHAMR secretariat, and coordinating the work within OHAMR as well as for the JPIAMR and EU projects within AMR that are already in progress.
  • participating in the Swedish Research Council’s work on establishing and further developing overarching internal procedures for coordination and participation in partnerships.

Your background

We put great emphasis on your personal qualities. To fit in and be happy in the role, we are looking for a person who is committed, proactive, and has well-developed strategic thinking and collaborative abilities. You have a well-developed ability to plan, organise, and communicate tasks in a structured way, at the same time as being flexible and able to adapt when conditions change. You show good judgement in balancing interests and decision-making. You are communicative and have the ability to establish trusting and good relationships in both external and internal contexts. You are good at picking up nuances and acting in a non-prestigious way.

In addition to these personal qualities, you also need to have:

  • an academic degree in medicine and health or another AMR-relevant subject area
  • documented experience of managing a team in major projects of relevance to the position
  • experience of driving projects forward in a structured way and documenting the work on an ongoing basis
  • knowledge of speaking and writing in Swedish
  • good speaking and writing abilities in English, and good ability in presenting results in a way adapted to the target group

It is an advantage if you have:

  • a doctoral degree in medicine and health, or alternatively corresponding meriting experience of relevance to AMR research
  • worked with AMR-related research strategy and/or policy
  • experience of international research collaboration
  • experience of Swedish public administration
  • experience of EU projects/EU administration
  • good speaking and writing abilities in Swedish

More information

See the full job description and information on how to apply on the Swedish Research Council’s website:

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Scientific adviser to the Swedish Research Council’s international AMR work

Ref no: 2.2.1-2024-06279

As scientific adviser, you will be part of the OHAMR secretariat at the Swedish Research Council and act as deputy project manager of the upcoming European partnership OHAMR. Through operational work within the OHAMR secretariat, you will get a good overview of all the ongoing activities of the partnership, which forms the basis for driving forward and widening the programme in a strategic way, in consultation with the Head of secretariat. The role will periodically require extensive travel.

The tasks include:

  • through strategic scientific work, helping to develop the OHAMR partnership as a central actor within the global AMR research work
  • monitoring and reporting relevant initiatives within antimicrobial resistance, at national, European, and global level, and contributing to linking OHAMR’s internal and external communication in relevant events
  • acting as deputy project manager for the Swedish Research Council’s coordination of the European partnership OHAMR and working operationally with the secretariat’s various activities within OHAMR and other EU projects within AMR
  • participating in the Swedish Research Council’s other national and international work on AMR.

Your background

We put great emphasis on your personal qualities. To fit in and be happy in the role, you need to have very good collaborative abilities and be able to establish trusting and good relationships in both external and internal contexts. You are good at picking up nuances and acting in a non-prestigious way. You have a well-developed ability to plan, organise, and communicate tasks in a structured way, at the same time as being flexible and able to adapt when conditions change. You are a good communicator and show good judgement in balancing interests and decision-making.

In addition to these personal qualities, you also need to have:

  • a doctoral degree in medicine and health, or alternatively corresponding meriting experience of relevance to AMR research
  • experience of international research collaboration
  • experience of representing an organisation in international collaborations
  • good speaking and writing abilities in English, and good ability in presenting results in a way adapted to the target group
  • knowledge of speaking and writing in Swedish

It is an advantage if you have:

  • worked with AMR-related research matters
  • experience of Swedish public administration
  • experience of EU projects/EU administration
  • good speaking and writing abilities in Swedish

More information

See the full job description and information on how to apply on the Swedish Research Council’s website:

Cover and a couple of pages from the draft OHAMR SRIA.

Online Consultation: The Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the European partnership OHAMR

The European partnership on One Health AMR (OHAMR) is one of the key European partnerships that has been identified by the European commission within the framework of the Horizon Europe programme to support research and innovation to respond to the challenges of AMR. The OHAMR Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) presents the vision, missions, objectives, scientific focus, and implementation plan of the OHAMR, and serves as the strategic foundation of the partnership to guide its future actions:

The OHAMR SRIA is almost finalised, and we now invite researchers, stakeholders, scientists, policymakers, clinicians, patient groups, AMR-related organisations, and others to provide their final feedback by answering a short survey:

A word template of the survey is also available to facilitate the consultation process. However, only the answers collected through the on-line survey tool will be analysed.

The consultation is open until May 30th, 17h CEST.

For questions regarding the consultation, please contact ohamr@vr.se.

For more information about the OHAMR Partnership, visit www.ohamr.eu.

Participants at the JPIAMR Management Board meeting in Rome 18-19 March 2024.

Management Board meeting in Rome

The JPIAMR held its 39th Management Board meeting in Rome, Italy, on 18-19 March where members from over 20 countries met to share information and to discuss the planning and progress of the future European Partnership on One Health AMR (OHAMR).

In the frame of the meeting, a workshop on the future OHAMR Partnership Work Packages was conducted together with representatives from additional countries that have expressed interest to join the OHAMR partnership.

This was the last physical JPIAMR Management Bord meeting before the launch of OHAMR in the spring of 2025 and also the last meeting for the Head of Secretariat Laura Marin, who will be leaving JPIAMR in April, 2024.

The Management Board thanked Laura for more than 10 years of great contribution and instrumental efforts in making the JPIAMR successful and being recognised as a key actor in the coordination and support of international AMR research. 

Patriq Fagerstedt will be the Acting Head of JPIAMR Secretariat, temporarily.

Roadmap of Actions of the European Partnership on One Health AMR

The preparation for the future European Partnership on One Health AMR (OHAMR) is progressing and the draft Roadmap of Actions has now been published. The Roadmap of Actions delineates the actions that will be undertaken during the lifetime of the partnership (2025-2032) to address the objectives of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. The Roadmap of Actions will be implemented through an Annual Work Programme for each year, providing a more detailed description of the planned actions.

The OHAMR partnership will be a co-funded research and innovation (R&I) partnership, expected to start 2025 under the Horizon Europe R&I framework programme. The partnership will coordinate and boost AMR R&I in an interdisciplinary One Health approach, contributing to advanced knowledge, innovative solutions and policy to reduce the burden of AMR.

This Roadmap of Actions has been developed by partners in the CSA DESIGN OH AMR, with the contribution of JPIAMR members, additional funders who have expressed interest to join OHAMR, the JPIAMR Scientific Advisory Board, as well as other experts and relevant stakeholders. A series of consultations have also been conducted.

JPIAMR Activity Report 2023

The JPIAMR activity report now published summarises the achievements of JPIAMR and the major events conducted in the year 2023.

It has been a year of future preparations but also of many exciting activities, awarding new projects in the area of diagnostics and surveillance, analysing the impacts of the JPIAMR project portfolio, starting an Early Research Career contest and much more.

Call picture AMR interventions call 2024.

Research call on AMR Interventions now open

The call Interventions moving forward to promote action to counteract the emergence and spread of bacterial and fungal resistance and to improve treatments is now open.

The primary aim of the call is to take action against the growing global threat of increased spread of antimicrobial (antibacterial and antifungal) resistance by funding international collaborative research projects aiming to improve, compare and evaluate the effectiveness, cost effectiveness, and uptake of existing interventions against bacterial or fungal infections and/or to design new interventions against fungal infections. It involves 21 funding organisations from 19 different countries and has an estimated total call budget of over 17,7 million Euro.

The call will follow a two-step evaluation procedure and the deadline for pre-proposals is 14 March 2024. The full call text and the link to the online submission platform can be found on the call page: 

Webinar for applicants

A live webinar for applicants will be organised on the 24th of January 2024 at 13.00-14.30 CET. This webinar will present the call and the partner search tool. Representatives from funders participating in the call will answer questions live.

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Winners in the JPIAMR Young Scientist best LinkedIn Post Contest

JPIAMR launched a contest for young scientists to present their lab’s project supported by JPIAMR using LinkedIn. Eligible participants were young scientists under the supervision of PIs with projects supported by JPIAMR in the calls 2019-2022. The contest was open between 20 October and 20 November 2023.

There were 11 eligible contestants who participated, and together their posts raised 66 000 impressions!

On the 14th of December the winners were announced and they presented their projects, which can be seen on the JPIAMR youtube channel.

The three winners and projects are: 

Call picture AMR interventions call 2024.

Pre-announcement: Research call on AMR interventions

We are pleased to pre‐announce the transnational call Interventions moving forward to promote action to counteract the emergence and spread of bacterial and fungal resistance and to improve treatments.

The primary aim of the call is to take action against the growing global threat of increased spread of antimicrobial (antibacterial and antifungal) resistance by funding international collaborative research projects aiming to improve, compare and evaluate the effectiveness, cost effectiveness, and uptake of existing interventions against bacterial or fungal infections and/or to design new interventions against fungal infections.

The call involves 21 funding organisations from 19 different countries and has an estimated total call budget of over 19 million Euro.

The call opens on January 10, 2024.

Read more on the call page.