CitiAIR
An inventory of citizen science stories on air quality
Our mission
Identify and elaborate
Co-create an inventory of air quality monitoring activities and approaches. Continuously add to the inventory by completing it for cities and organizations within and outside of the CitiMeasure working groups.
Facilitate knowledge sharing
Create an online interactive tool for city officials and citizen science initiatives that facilitates information sharing across cities and organizations by clarifying who is involved in what air quality monitoring activities and how.
Pilot and consolidate
Pilot and consolidate the developed tool with lessons learned from the pilot phase and further analysis by March 2023.
SHARE YOUR STORY
Is your municipality, organization, or company involved in participatory air quality monitoring initiatives? Then we would love to hear from you and to have your story on the map! Please take 20 minutes to fill out the survey to help interested cities and organizations across Europe find you, learn from you, and set up their own project.
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DISCOVER INSPIRING INITIATIVES
Note: the map and initiative information display the location of the organisations in charge of the initiative
Co-Designing Inclusive Mobility: CoMobility
Location: Warszawa, Poland
Description: In CoMobility, we measured PM2.5, PM10, NO2, and noise in three elementary schools in Warsaw, Poland as well as conducted a series of co-creation workshops, where young experts (2nd and 3rd grade pupils) collaborated with adult experts to enhance more sustainable mobility solutions and reduce the use of private cars in their schools neighbourhoods. Among the co-created and implemented solutions are bicycle road maps, street art, children gazette, and single actions such as children manifestations or mime performances.
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, PM10, NO2, Temperature, O3, Humidity, Noise
Read moreDescription: In CoMobility, we measured PM2.5, PM10, NO2, and noise in three elementary schools in Warsaw, Poland as well as conducted a series of co-creation workshops, where young experts (2nd and 3rd grade pupils) collaborated with adult experts to enhance more sustainable mobility solutions and reduce the use of private cars in their schools neighbourhoods. Among the co-created and implemented solutions are bicycle road maps, street art, children gazette, and single actions such as children manifestations or mime performances.
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, PM10, NO2, Temperature, O3, Humidity, Noise
Urbanity
Location: Kjeller, Norway
Description: URBANITY is a research project looking at opportunities to use smart technology to monitor pollution and traffic in Norwegian cities. The aim is to provide the municipality and its citizens with better information about pollution and traffic where they live.
List of parameters measured: PM1, PM2.5, PM10, Temperature, Humidity, Other
Read moreDescription: URBANITY is a research project looking at opportunities to use smart technology to monitor pollution and traffic in Norwegian cities. The aim is to provide the municipality and its citizens with better information about pollution and traffic where they live.
List of parameters measured: PM1, PM2.5, PM10, Temperature, Humidity, Other
NordicPATH, a project about Nordic participatory, healthy, and people-centered cities.
Location: Kjeller, Norway
Description: NordicPATH’s overall objective is to establish a new model for citizens' participation and collaborative planning in the Nordic countries focused on urban air quality and the interlinked challenge of climate change. The project focuses on strategies to engage citizens in the process of socio-technological change required by planners and designers to provide the built environment and the services that will shape future sustainable cities with a human-centered approach.
List of parameters measured: PM1, PM2.5, PM10, NO2, Temperature, Humidity
Read moreDescription: NordicPATH’s overall objective is to establish a new model for citizens' participation and collaborative planning in the Nordic countries focused on urban air quality and the interlinked challenge of climate change. The project focuses on strategies to engage citizens in the process of socio-technological change required by planners and designers to provide the built environment and the services that will shape future sustainable cities with a human-centered approach.
List of parameters measured: PM1, PM2.5, PM10, NO2, Temperature, Humidity
Window open or window closed? Increase a healthy surrouding
Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands
Description: By measuring inside and outside homes or offices, citizens get a clear overview what the air quality is in their living environment. By looking at the results, one can adjust its behaviour, to increase a healthy surrouding. The detectors are provided in the project to for example ten citizens. During workshops they share insides and knowledge they gained. When is the best moment to open the window? For municipalities, it can optional be combined with wood burning courses.
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, PM10, Temperature, Humidity
Read moreDescription: By measuring inside and outside homes or offices, citizens get a clear overview what the air quality is in their living environment. By looking at the results, one can adjust its behaviour, to increase a healthy surrouding. The detectors are provided in the project to for example ten citizens. During workshops they share insides and knowledge they gained. When is the best moment to open the window? For municipalities, it can optional be combined with wood burning courses.
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, PM10, Temperature, Humidity
Citizen Urban Health Laboratory
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Description: The Urban Health Lab is a collaborative space for experimentation, learning and practice to foster community participation in building more resilient, healthy, sustainable and inclusive neighbourhoods. The lab aims to create communities of learning and practice, working collectively to identify needs, problems and interests, and to foster creative ideas that improve neighbourhood conditions through experimentation, shared knowledge and scientific culture.
List of parameters measured: PM1, PM2.5, Temperature, Noise, NO2
Read moreDescription: The Urban Health Lab is a collaborative space for experimentation, learning and practice to foster community participation in building more resilient, healthy, sustainable and inclusive neighbourhoods. The lab aims to create communities of learning and practice, working collectively to identify needs, problems and interests, and to foster creative ideas that improve neighbourhood conditions through experimentation, shared knowledge and scientific culture.
List of parameters measured: PM1, PM2.5, Temperature, Noise, NO2
CAIRGOBIKE Project
Location: Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium
Description: CAIRGOBIKE is designed to improve air quality in the Brussels Capital Region (BCR) by accelerating a modal shift from car/van to cargo bike to transport children, deliver goods and services through an integrated ecosystem of complementary nudging strategies. This innovative ecosystem will convert citizens and professionals to cargo bike use, ease the access to cargo bikes and create parking facilities. User community (citizens/businesses and non-profit) will be directly involved in air quality measurement and communication.
List of parameters measured: Temperature, Humidity, Black Carbon
Read moreDescription: CAIRGOBIKE is designed to improve air quality in the Brussels Capital Region (BCR) by accelerating a modal shift from car/van to cargo bike to transport children, deliver goods and services through an integrated ecosystem of complementary nudging strategies. This innovative ecosystem will convert citizens and professionals to cargo bike use, ease the access to cargo bikes and create parking facilities. User community (citizens/businesses and non-profit) will be directly involved in air quality measurement and communication.
List of parameters measured: Temperature, Humidity, Black Carbon
Increasing Community Resilience in Climate Adaptation Process Project
Location: İstanbul, Türkiye
Description: With the establishment of the “Kadıköy Municipality Environmental Monitoring and Early Warning System”; We aim to create a resilient structure guided/supported by the local government with participation at the neighborhood scale and to raise awareness about climate change. Data is transferred to the "Kadıköy Municipality Environmental Monitoring and Early Warning System" for the detection of emergencies such as air pollution and heat wave/heat island effect that adversely affect public health, especially the fragile population.
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, PM10, Temperature, Humidity
Read moreDescription: With the establishment of the “Kadıköy Municipality Environmental Monitoring and Early Warning System”; We aim to create a resilient structure guided/supported by the local government with participation at the neighborhood scale and to raise awareness about climate change. Data is transferred to the "Kadıköy Municipality Environmental Monitoring and Early Warning System" for the detection of emergencies such as air pollution and heat wave/heat island effect that adversely affect public health, especially the fragile population.
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, PM10, Temperature, Humidity
AirQon
Location: Breda, Netherlands
Description: AirQon is initiative that makes us of EV-cars instead of dieselgenerators specially to provide festivals with sustainable energy. due to all the problems during COVID 19 the pilot was broadend to the construction branche
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, PM10, Black Carbon, UFPs (Ultrafine particles)
Read moreDescription: AirQon is initiative that makes us of EV-cars instead of dieselgenerators specially to provide festivals with sustainable energy. due to all the problems during COVID 19 the pilot was broadend to the construction branche
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, PM10, Black Carbon, UFPs (Ultrafine particles)
CitieS-Health
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Description: CitieS-Health aimed to put citizens’ concerns at the heart of research agenda on environmental epidemiology by tackling health issues that concern them. Citizens along with scientists in 5 cities in Europe co-designed and implemented epidemiological studies to explore how their living environment is affecting their health. The Barcelona CitieS-Health pilot project was a scientific study co-created by the citizens who explores how air quality, green spaces and noise affect the sleep, the attention span and stress.
List of parameters measured: NO2
Read moreDescription: CitieS-Health aimed to put citizens’ concerns at the heart of research agenda on environmental epidemiology by tackling health issues that concern them. Citizens along with scientists in 5 cities in Europe co-designed and implemented epidemiological studies to explore how their living environment is affecting their health. The Barcelona CitieS-Health pilot project was a scientific study co-created by the citizens who explores how air quality, green spaces and noise affect the sleep, the attention span and stress.
List of parameters measured: NO2