OMEGA-NET (the Network on the Coordination and Harmonisation of European Occupational Cohorts - http://omeganetcohorts.eu/) is a 4 year EU-funded COST Action that commenced in November 2017. The overarching concept of OMEGA-NET is to create a network to optimise and integrate occupational, industrial, and population cohorts at the European level, and to provide a foundation for an enhanced evidence base for the identification of health risks and gains related to occupation and employment to foster safe and healthy preventive strategies and policies.

OMEGA-NET has research and capacity-building objectives, including:

• Coordinate and integrate cohorts on occupational health in Europe

• Implement an online interactive tool with detailed information on existing cohorts

• Facilitate work on harmonisation of occupational exposure and standardisation of health outcome information and new protocols for data collection

• Connect scientific communities on occupational health in Europe

• Provide networking and leadership opportunities for early career researchers, as well as researchers from COST Inclusiveness Target Countries

• Provide training in occupational epidemiology and exposure assessment

• Our stakeholders are at National, European (e.g. EU, EU–OSHA) and International levels (e.g. WHO, ILO). Scientists are under pressure to promote their research and the reasons for promoting OMEGA–NET include:

• Attracting future research funding in occupational health;

• Building new connections outside our Action, promoting research in other countries; and

• Putting occupational epidemiology on the agenda of EU and international (and national) policy–makers

We will present our Science Communication and Dissemination Plan, which sets out how we are interacting with and influencing key high-level stakeholders, and what we hope to achieve. We hope OMEGA-NET will inform occupational health research priority setting and promote a lively discussion on communication of research in occupational health.