What is the name of your initiative?SmartAir

How would you describe the main mission of your initiative?Measure/monitor air quality, Smart/sustainable mobility, Raise awareness/education

Please provide a short description of your initiative (What is being done? Who is participating? What are your main goals?) This text will appear on the main page.SmartAir emerged to respond to the problems identified by the educational community and which are related to the increase in the emission of polluting gases into the atmosphere. Students and teachers received training from researchers at the University of Aveiro and from teachers in the school’s technical areas in terms of building sensors and in terms of communication and information. The curricular framework was made within the scope of Curricular Autonomy and and within the scope of the SmartSchoolLab project.

Who is your main audience?Schools, Cities

If possible, provide the list of partners involved in the initiative.University of Aveiro, Parent´s Association and City Hall of Gafanha da Nazaré.

How is this initiative funded?Private programme

Please provide an estimation of the total budget of the initiative (in €):Less than 5 000

What is the duration of the initiative?1 to 5 years

How many participants (citizen scientists, volunteers, etc.) have been involved (approximately)?25 – 100

Website that presents your initiativehttp://www.mjssantos.eu/smartair

Please share any other relevant/interesting links about your initiative:This project, has the following objectives: to place the behavior and practices of citizens at the center of the debate, to problematize the potential of the Internet of Things to increase efficiency in tasks and in solving social problems relevant; provide the educational community with technical and scientific knowledge regarding the construction and use of sensors to monitor environmental problems, curricularly framing the subject under study in the different disciplines and different levels of education; promote citizen science strategies in a teaching/learning context (collection and participatory analysis of data from sensors, etc.); enable the educational community to use digital platforms of collective awareness, develop a set of tools for identifying and quantifying the values of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere in the city under study and increase the awareness of the population of Gafanha da Nazaré about the problem associated with environmental changes and what are the possible solutions.

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