COMET: Co-ordination and Implementation of a Pan-European Instrument for Radioecology

The EC FP7 COMET project (COordination and iMplementation of a pan-Europe instrumenT for radioecology) was funded to strengthen the pan-European research initiative on the impact of radiation on man and environment by facilitating the integration of R&D activities in radioecology. COMET contributed to the realisation of the ambitions of the ALLIANCE (www.er-alliance.org), the European radioecology platform, and encouraged collaboration with the European platforms on nuclear and radiological emergency response and recovery (NERIS www.eu-neris.net), low dose radiation risk (MELODI www.melodi-online.eu) and dosimetry (EURADOS www.eurados.org). We highlight COMET's major outputs and indicate how COMET contributed to further integration and long-term sustainability and as such strengthened the ALLIANCE.