EIC Horizon Prize for 'Early Warning for Epidemics'.

The objectives of the prize are:

• to develop and demonstrate a scalable, reliable and cost-effective early warning system prototype using Earth Observation data to forecast and monitor vector-borne diseases; 
• to contribute to the prevention of outbreaks mitigating their impact on local, regional and global scales and providing support to existing elimination efforts.

The Earth Observation domain is changing with increasing amounts of data being generated from spaceborne, air-borne, in-situ and citizens' observatories. Effective management of big data in this domain will