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BEACON Announces the One Health Webinar Series: Connecting Knowledge, Education and Practice
Running from November 2026 to March 2027, the series will feature 13 contributions addressing real-world challenges at the intersection of human, animal and environmental health.

One Health Starts with a School Lunch: Teaching the Connections We Often Miss
Imagine a student opening a lunchbox: bread, cheese, an apple and a bottle of water. Nothing unusual. Now imagine a teacher asking a question that changes how the class sees that meal: What had to happen for this food to get here?

Second Call for Virtual Mobility Grants – VMG – BEACON COST Action CA24106
This call supports virtual collaboration, online networking, and knowledge exchange between researchers from different COST countries. all VM activities must be completed and final reports submitted by 20 October 2026

2nd BEACON Meeting in Vienna
The BEACON COST Action CA24106 – Building Education and One Health with Adaptive Convergence and Open Networks – will hold its 2nd BEACON Meeting in Vienna, Austria, on 18 and 19 June 2026.

First Call for Conference Grants – BEACON COST Action CA24106
This call is open from 22 May 2026 to 30 June 2026, for conferences ending before 1 October 2026.

First Call for Short-Term Scientific Missions – STSM – BEACON COST Action CA24106
This call supports researchers and innovators who wish to visit a host organization in another country to carry out specific scientific work linked to BEACON objectives.

First Call for Virtual Mobility Grants – VMG – BEACON COST Action CA24106
This call supports virtual collaboration, online networking, and knowledge exchange between researchers from different COST countries. It is especially relevant for strengthening collaboration within BEACON without requiring physical travel.

Call for Guest Speakers – One Health Webinar Series – WG3
This call is led by Working Group 3 and invites researchers, professionals, early-career scholars and students to contribute as guest speakers to the One Health Webinar Series, which will run from November 2026 to March 2027.

BEACON Webinar – Agentic RAG for Virtual Learning Environments: Smart Education with AI Agents
This webinar focused on intelligent education, AI agents, learning analytics, open collaboration and One Health perspectives.

New chapter at the University of Almería
Today marks an important milestone for our journey within the COST Association CA24106 BEACON initiative as we officially begin our in-person activities.