Working Group 1: Monitoring & Surveillance of AIMs and EAIMBVs
Task 1.1 – Review, optimisation and ToK of AIM monitoring and surveillance. The practicality and efficiency of current sampling protocols for collecting different mosquito stages (i.e. eggs, larvae, resting, ovipositing and host-seeking adult females, resting males), environmental DNA sampling, AIM identification based on morphology using identification keys or molecular approaches (PCR; molecular genotyping; MALDI-TOF) were systematically reviewed, based on country level case specific data. Information and knowledge exchange were facilitated and promoted at country level to maximise stakeholder involvement, to identify needs and gaps of different approaches, with the final aim of refining the interventions from inception to assessment to consolidate and harmonise recommendations for each species and level of expertise.
Task 1.2 - Integrating surveillance data analysis, spatial modelling & mapping to ensure the quality and applicability of future technical outputs at the European level. Surveillance data provide the opportunity to produce spatial model of predicted vector distributions of areas that have not been adequately sampled in the field. The surveillance data must however be standardised and representative. In addition the modelling methods and the covariates data also need to be reliable and harmonized to ensure comparable outputs for different areas and from different practitioners. Finally, the outputs themselves need to be tailored for a range of potential users in the academic, public health and public arenas. Task 1.2 assessed the major potential ‘roadblocks’ in the work chain from sampling to dissemination, and provide a set of guidelines containing recommendations for best practice sampling, modeling and output production to ensure the maximum integration and impact at the EU level of the three sets of activities. Such a Road map was not only valuable within the context of AIM assessments, but was widely applicable to other vectors, their hosts, and the diseases they carry.
Working Group 1: Participant List
| Name | Category/Position | Region |
| Karine Gevorgyan | COST Near Neighbour Country | Armenia |
| Hans-Peter Fuehrer | MC Member | Austria |
| Teufik Goletic | MC Member | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Ognyan Mikov | MC Member | Bulgaria |
| Ana Klobucar | MC Member | Croatia |
| Kamil Erguler | MC Member | Cyprus |
| René Bodker | MC Member | Denmark |
| Aleksandar Cvetkovikj | MC Member | fYR Macedonia |
| Nikolina Sokolovska | MC Member | fYR Macedonia |
| Cornelia Silaghi | MC Member | Germany |
| Roberto Rosa | MC Member | Italy |
| Christian Ries | MC Member | Luxembourg |
| Tatiana Sulesco | MC Member | Moldova |
| Nebojsa Sekulic | MC Member | Montenegro |
| Igor Pajovic | MC Member | Montenegro |
| Sondre Dahle | MC Member | Norway |
| João Pinto | MC Member | Portugal |
| Elena Falcuta | MC Member | Romania |
| Tamas Petrovic | MC Member | Serbia |
| Jordi Figuerola | MC Member | Spain |
| Miguel Angel Miranda | MC Member | Spain |
| Anders Lindström | MC Member | Sweden |
| Tobias Lilja | MC Member | Sweden |
| Filiz Gunay | MC Member | Turkey |
| Salih Bulent Alten | MC Member | Turkey |
| Wim Van Bortel | MC Substitute | Belgium |
| Anna-Bella Failloux | MC Substitute | France |
| Helge Kampen | MC Substitute | Germany |
| Florian Liviu Prioteasa | MC Substitute | Romania |
| Angela Ionica | MC Substitute | Romania |
| Núria Busquets | MC Substitute | Spain |
| Eleonora Flacio | MC Substitute | Switzerland |
| Pie Müller | MC Substitute | Switzerland |
| Dusan Petric | MC Vice-Chair | Serbia |
| Simona Tchakarova | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Bulgaria |
| Toni Zitko | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Croatia |
| Jean-Philippe David | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | France |
| Doreen Walther | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Germany |
| Emmanouil Fotakis | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Greece |
| Stavroula Beleri | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Greece |
| Trisevgeni Gkotsi | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Greece |
| Chiara Virgillito | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Italy |
| Eleonora Perugini | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Italy |
| Fabrizio Montarsi | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Italy |
| Giuliano Gasperi | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Italy |
| Simone Martini | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Italy |
| Romeo Bellini | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Italy |
| Ana Jeleapov | MC Substitute | Moldova |
| Andrei Cimpan | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Romania |
| Cintia Horváth | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Romania |
| Ignacio Ruiz Arrondo | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Spain |
| Rafael Gutiérrez López | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Spain |
| Laura Vavassori | Other (e.g. observer, etc) | Switzerland |
| Elton Rogozi | WG Member [WG1] | Albania |
| Marie Picard | WG Member [WG1] | France |
| Elina Patsoula | WG Member [WG1] | Greece |
| Beniamino Caputo | WG Member [WG1] | Italy |
| Mattia Manica | WG Member [WG1] | Italy |
| Adolfo Ibañez-Justicia | WG Member [WG3] | Netherlands |
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