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GLOWACON is a global consortium promoting wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) for public health. Its mission is to establish a worldwide sentinel system for early outbreak detection, real-time monitoring, and pandemic preparedness. By creating a voluntary, cross-border network for data sharing, the initiative aims to enable faster, more effective responses to health threats, saving lives and protecting communities. Read more… 

Governance

The GLOWACON consortium aims to build a coordinated global wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) network. Its governance ensures diverse representation and develops multi-year strategies. Key activities include creating technical guidance, promoting ethical data sharing and interoperability, and identifying research gaps. It facilitates capacity building and training while advocating for WES with policymakers and the public. The consortium does not fund projects but acts as a coordinating body to identify funding opportunities, maximize synergies, and guide investments to avoid duplication, ensuring activities are largely self-funded. Read more… 

Membership

This area describes the steps required to apply to GLOWACON membership in person or as an organization. Read more… 

Partnership

This area presents the current GLOWACON partners. Read more… 

Activities

GLOWACON is a "Network of Networks" that has rapidly established itself through major global and regional conferences on multiple continents. It has united a powerful Funders' Forum with major banks and philanthropic organizations to coordinate financial support and avoid redundancies. The consortium has also conducted experimental activities, including a proof-of-concept for wastewater surveillance on aviation in collaboration with IATA and approximately 30 international airports, with impressive results (pending publication) Read more… 

Events

This area contains a list of past and upcoming relevant events for the GLOWACON community. Read more… 

Working groups

To develop further technical content, GLOWACON has currently four technical working groups dealing with Technical Guidance and best practices,  Training and capacity development, Data formats and sharing and Priorities for research and innovation. These technical working groups are co-led by National Public Health institutes, leading experts and supported also financially by a group of donor organisations. Read more… 

Intranet

Members of GLOWACON can access its Intranet, a Nextcloud based platform hosted by GLOWACON that allow collaboration between members via tools like Talk (chat conversations, meetings), Files (create, preview, edit, delete, share, or collaborate on document files), Contacts (that allow you to add collaborators and groups to work with and share data), Calendar (to track your upcoming meetings) and Collectives (to organize and build shared knowledge). The platform provides both mobile and desktop applications that you can install on your devices to be able to collaborate on the GLOWACON platform wherever you are. Access the intranet 

Documents

This area contain a list of foundational and other essential documents used by the GLOWACON framework. Read more… 

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GLOWACON Aviation Programme

Join the initiative aiming to enhance global public health security through aviation wastewater analysis.

More details here.

Express your interest in joining the programme by applying directly here.

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