Pre-announcement: European Partnership on One Health Antimicrobial Resistance 2026

The Health Research Board (HRB), Research Ireland and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) are collaborating to support Irish researchers to engage in transnational collaborative research in the field of antimicrobial resistance with a One Health approach under the call entitled “Treatments and Adherence to Treatment protocols (OH-TREAT)”.

The HRB will fund applications in the Human Health setting under Topic 2 and the Irish partner’s activities must primarily target this area.

The call is expected to launch on 18 November 2025 with a closing date of 2 February 2026 for pre-proposals.

The vision of European Partnership on One Health Antimicrobial Resistance (EUP OHAMR) is to reduce the burden of antimicrobial resistance.

One of the main activities of EUP OHAMR will be the preparation and implementation of joint transnational calls (JTCs) for research and innovation projects. This first EUP OHAMR Call, Treatments and Adherence to Treatment protocols (OH-TREAT), aims to improve the treatment success rates of the patients/animals/plants affected by bacterial or fungal infections by providing new treatment options while reducing the risk of resistance in the different One Health settings.

The overall objectives of the JTC2026 are to:

• Develop new antimicrobials, novel treatment protocols or alternative treatment strategies against Human Infectious diseases along with their respective diagnostics.
• Improve, preserve and reinforce the clinical efficacy of the current treatment antimicrobials.
• Identify barriers to access, availability, quality and uptake of therapeutic solutions and development of solutions to overcome those barriers.
• Assess and predict the impact of economic incentives and regulations on drug development, drug production, drug supply and treatment availability.

A webinar will take place on 26 November 2025 (12:00-13:30 GMT) to present the OHAMR JTC2026 and the partner search tool. All interested applicants are invited to register to attend.

For further information on the upcoming call, please refer to the OHAMR preannouncement.