Hello. This talk is about One Health, more specifically the pillar of food safety and human health. Lately, a lot of attention is being paid to the One Health approach due to important ongoing events like antimicrobial resistance or AMR and COVID-19 crisis, two pandemics for which the interface between animals, humans, and their environment plays an important role. Some international organizations but also global policymakers stress and recommend international collaboration. For instance, the Tripartite composed of WHO, OIE, and FAO, and its High-Level One Health Expert Panel, but also the UK G7 Summit and the G20 Rome Declaration of 2021 where the need for collaboration and preparedness, along One Health approach has been discussed. Such high level decisions, decide on the framework whether there is a need for practical hands-on guidelines. In a project that is called One Health EJP; I'll come back to that later, we used this integrative strategy matrix that you can see here. It is composed of the elements that make up the process of surveillance, but it also describes what the preparedness of all actors means. It shows the surveillance itself, but also the laboratory contribution, risk analysis, and risk management and demonstrates the multi-disciplinary approach, the need for collaboration. All these steps are a challenge for medical food and veterinary labs plus those dealing with the environment. Therefore, in a One Health approach, these partners or sectors have to collaborate for each of the components of surveillance or preparedness. The challenge is to translate the approach into practical instructions and to coordinate the collaborative work. Between 2004 and 2009 under the Framework Program 6, a network of excellence was financed by the European Commission. It was called 'med-vet net'. It was composed of medical and veterinary institutions including reference laboratories and it has promoted research on food safety and zoonoses. After its end in October 2009, the Med-Vet-Net association was installed on the French law and this network still exists. It has limited budget, thanks to the contribution of its members and supports collaboration among its partners and supports the exchange of researchers. From 2018 till 2023, answers in France and Sciensano in Belgium together with about 35 other European public organizations launched the 'One Health EJP' under Horizon 2020, which is a project with a budget of €90 million and it is 50 percent co-funded by the Commission. Its aim is to enlarge and consolidate the medical veterinary network in the domains of foodborne zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, and emerging threats. It stimulates a collaboration through research projects, integrative activities, for instance alignment and harmonization of methodologies, but also through education and training activities like summer schools, workshops, financing, PhDs, and so on. Some examples of the outputs of this EJP are the following mainly through research projects and integrative activities. For instance, assessment of existing surveillance systems and suggestions to improve surveillance, for instance to include whole genome sequencing, better genomics, or make use of food purchased data to estimate food consumption and possible exposure. Many laboratory techniques are being developed both for the detection and characterization of pathogens. Also, efforts are being done to align data, but also for data collection and data exchange and alert systems. Finally also, new intervention methods are being developed, for instance regarding biosecurity on farms and pre and probiotics. So what may be some indicators of success? The long list of cross-sector achievements, some of which have been mentioned before, and those that are available on the One Health EJP website are a fair first indication. Also the fact that on EJP six more institutes have joined the network indicates certain added value for their tasks. The strongest indication comes from the interest of international organizations and intensive collaboration that has been set up with them. I want to mention with EFSA and to a lesser extent ECDC where representatives actively take part in the project and in the integrative activities of the One Health EJP. Also, there are interactions with the Tripartite. For instance, the SISOT exercise, Surveillance and Information Sharing Operational Tool and also the Regional One-Health Coordination Mechanism. As for WHO, the One-Health EJP has joined the Global Outbreak and Alert Response Network. As a conclusion, I can say that a close collaboration across sectors is very profitable as the above examples demonstrate. The networks that I described essentially deal with medical and veterinary public institutes, but for sure can be extended to environmental partners to further complete to One Healthness. Co-operation through research and integrative activities leads to new knowledge, but also builds trust which should be created in times of peace but it's so essential during a crisis. We are convinced that this network is precious also because good contact and regular discussion with local, national, and international stakeholders has been set up. This is essential to have results taken up and to gain it back. What could have been done better? Well, five years is sufficient to create a network, but it is not enough to have all existing European Med-Vet and environmental institutes onboard. Also, for the moment there are more vet than med partners and maybe this is also due to the fact that the European world program goals originated from food security and agriculture solely and there was no direct inputs from DG health. I'm afraid that this is happening on the Horizon Europe as well. Then, although many efforts are being done, still more need to be done to make sure that the results and outcomes will be taken up by all partners and stakeholders. Finally, I have some take-home messages. The first one is that the Med-Vet Network created under One Health EJP is a solid basis to build a real One Health consortium in which the environmental dimension can easily be included. Two, concrete specific actions like research projects and integrative activities promote cross-sector and cross-border cooperation and collaboration. Three, a lot of expertise is available in Europe and bringing that together will make the existing One Health consortium even stronger. Four, One Health support and funding should also be cross-sector at the highest political level be it in the country as well as at a European level. Thank you very much.