About the Synergy-Plague project

Synergy-Plague consists of four PI teams, located in Norway, UK and France, in addition to several partners.

The project is based at the Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, and is closely linked to Centre for Pandemics and One-Health Research (P1H), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo.

The full name of the project: "Reconstructing the environmental, biological, and societal drivers of plague outbreaks in Eurasia between 1300 and 1900 CE" (Synergy-Plague).
Project number: ERC-2023-SyG, Synergy-Plague, GA no.101118880.
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Front page illustration: Painting from 1721 by Michel Serre (1658–1733) illustrating the Grat Plague in Marseille, France.

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