Call to action in one health education, yet another new video in the making
Strengthening our communications and outreach through coordinated action, shared infrastructure, and open collaboration across all members
Reading time: 10 minutes, soon multimedia with voice-over and subtitles
Summary: a new video is being produced as part of our upcoming media kit and campaign, social media presence and new members invitation efforts, accompanying the launch of the new website. This is coordinated through the newly established communications working group, which is set to keep on building and maintain the full communications infrastructure of the action under the highest standards of open science and pedagogy to ensure all members operate within a robust, well-equipped environment. Shared resources and official materials, including letterheads for outreach to governmental and institutional partners, as well as contact lists, are being prepared to support unified and effective communication with all relevant stakeholders. The collective effort now moves toward engaging potential allies and consolidating collaborations across national and international levels.
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A dedicated communications working group to coordinate both internal and external communications across all BEACON activities is being set. If interested in contributing, please contact the group mailing list [email protected]. This group will be responsible for developing and maintaining the full communications infrastructure, keeping all members updated, ensuring clarity, coherence, and accessibility in all exchanges. It will also assist members and teams in managing updates, announcements, and media outputs, providing continuous support to keep all initiatives aligned and progressing efficiently.
As for the soon to be released new short film, it marks the beginning of a broad and transparent expansion across all COST countries, preparing new consortia, funded missions, and measurable results. It conveys our collective duty to advance education, health, and governance as one, to support those most in need first, with children’s learning, well-being, and future as our highest priority. We will soon be sharing the finalized video. Below follows the text of the voice-over soon to be read, heard, and seen with subtitles in full multimedia format:
This is our call to action, important among the most essential of our time.
The biosphere is failing, and with it, the foundations of life. Biodiversity loss, antimicrobial resistance, climate instability, famine, and social unrest are clinical manifestations of one disease: systemic neglect.
Our duty is to intervene, with reason and precision, through education grounded in science and delivered through the best technological means made available to all. With rigour, expertise, and full commitment, we must ensure learning, equity, and prosperity, taking from despair to thriving all children, future leaders, from every background, prioritizing those most in need.
Planetary evidence is conclusive. The rate of species extinction surpasses natural levels by over a thousandfold. Coral reefs, amphibians, pollinators, and apex predators are vanishing together. Soils lose fertility, oceans acidify, and the atmosphere overheats. The self-regulating mechanisms of the biosphere are breaking down. Human survival now depends on restoring environmental homeostasis through coordinated, evidence-based education and governance.
We now work within EU BEACON One Health Education via New Technologies COST action, a coordinated European framework under the Cooperation in Science and Technology programme. COST sustains collaboration across more than forty countries and welcomes participation from third nations committed to transparency, open science, and collective responsibility.
The task is clear. To integrate human, animal, and environmental health education through advanced and open technologies. EU BEACON One Health Education via New Technologies COST action coordinates education and research systems serving more than one and a half billion people, including over three hundred million children whose health and future depend on timely intervention. Within four years, the action will deliver open courseware, digital infrastructures, and participatory teaching methods that connect science, policy, and governance. The goal is to establish a sustainable, measurable, and inclusive foundation for global One Health education, building capacity, strengthening institutions, and enabling prosperity.
This is a coordinated clinical response to planetary disorder. The action’s duty is to create and maintain an excellence network spanning continents, empowering experts and institutions to assist those most affected, including educators, researchers, and professionals operating at the frontlines of environmental and health crises. By doing so, it advances careers, generates employment, and ensures that innovation serves recovery and stability.
The symptoms of collapse are clear. Forests lose carbon balance. Oceans lose oxygen. Pathogens gain hosts. Conflicts and forced migration arise from scarcity. Pollution and ecological degradation amplify hostility, exploitation, and war. Hate and negligence are secondary infections of a sick planet. These cannot be treated without restoring ecological and educational balance.
Antimicrobial resistance continues to spread. Misuse of antibiotics, industrial waste, and weak surveillance allow microorganisms to evolve beyond therapeutic control. Hospitals, once centers of healing, now propagate resistant infections. Prevention depends on stewardship, wastewater management, vaccination, and genomic monitoring.
Starvation remains a measurable pathology, with devastating effects, direct and indirect, leading to conflict. Avoidable deaths, all. Misery, on a never ending cycle of destruction, unless stopped. Over forty-five million children face acute malnutrition, and more than three million die every year. In the COST area, over thirty million citizens live in food insecurity. Conflict, institutional breakdown, and disease increase the toll. Environmental degradation already causes over thirteen million deaths annually. Within EU BEACON One Health Education via New Technologies COST action, prevention replaces reaction. Surveillance, open data, and education form the operational protocol for restoring biospheric balance through coordinated science, pedagogy, and governance.
Time is short, yet adaptation remains possible if action is immediate, equitable, and based on evidence. Humanity remains the only therapeutic agent capable of reversing decline.
Humanity at its best lives long, in peace and in health. Science and technology serve all equally. Education prevents decay and conflict before they arise, transforming ignorance into competence and despair into collective purpose.
This is a call to act with precision and to repair the conditions that generate conflict, poverty, and neglect. Science and technology must remain open, freely accessible, and developed by the best to aid the most vulnerable, within and beyond our professions.
EU BEACON One Health Education via New Technologies COST action stands open to the best experts. Join this coordinated effort to lift institutions, strengthen systems, and guide a population of more than one and a half billion people across over forty countries, including hundreds of millions of children, toward sustainable recovery. It is a global action, systemic, preventive, and indispensable.
Act with precision. Apply knowledge as treatment. Educate to prevent. Restore to prosper. The tools exist. The duty is ours. The time is now.
The video will be released in this publication, the action one, and Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@onehealthedtech
I hope you all enjoy this one. I am also setting social media profiles, and other required additions in motion. My apologies again for all delays. Again, please join in the communications group, if you wish, as we have a massive a lot to do. Write a message to [email protected] to be included, get to coordinate and take all ongoing forward together. Thank you all! Wishing you all a great end of the week.