Location: Dublin, Ireland
Description: The GLOBE Ireland Air Quality Campaign is a school-based citizen-science project to assess traffic-related (nitrogen dioxide) air pollution outdoors at schools in Ireland. This is an educational project designed to raise awareness about air pollution, showcase the potential of citizen science to gather unique datasets and insights into our environment and promote behavior change.
List of parameters measured: NO2
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Description: This project is based on a standardised European methodology to evaluate odour episodes through citizens' observations. Odour Collect’s main goal is identifying areas where the quality of life is jeopardised by frequent odour exposure. Any citizen can act as the observer and collect geo-localised open data on the odour episode, which can be used to build collaborative odour complaint maps. Through citizen generated data, it is possible to get a better understanding of the impact of odour emitting activities.
List of parameters measured: Other
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Description: xAire represents a large-scale monthly air quality monitoring in Barcelona and it has been replicated in Venice. It is an unprecedented citizen science project that involves schools and families to both: collect new geographically accurate data on air quality, and to empower themselves to present them rigorously in front of the City Council. With the support of the Consorci d’Educació de Barcelona, 18 public primary schools from the 10 districts of the city participate in the action.
List of parameters measured: NO2
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Description: Citizens are involved in urban rainwater monitoring as well as in urban air pollution monitoring, the latter on the basis of various indoor and outdoor scenarios, by employing low-cost AQ sensors. Via a number of citizen workshops as well as citizen-powered environmental monitoring campaigns, the project aims to map related problems and arrive at a set of best practices applicable to everyday life, on the basis of collaborative data analytics and knowledge extraction.
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, PM10, Temperature, Humidity, CO2
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Description: The public administration South-Holland (a densely populated urban province with 3.7 million inhabitants encompassing The Hague and Rotterdam) is actively encouraging and supporting citizen science initiatives around air quality and the environment. Goal of this project is to engage citizens with science and their environment, but also to complement and improve the official national data and models. The province is providing financial support, but also facilitating active community management and support (which is outsourced to The Green Land)
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, PM10
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Description: hackAIR aims to raise collective awareness about the daily conditions of air quality in Europe, leveraging the power of environmental intelligence (integration of data from multiple sources, data fusion for areas where no data exist, forecast modelling, estimation of environmental indices, personalised recommendations).
The hackAIR platform comprises of a website and a complementary mobile application. hackAIR can also integrate data from low-cost open hardware sensors.
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, PM10
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Description: WeCount was a Horizon 2020 project which aimed at quantifying local road transport, produce scientific knowledge in the field of mobility and environmental pollution and co- design informed solutions for several road transport challenges. Uniquely, this citizen science project empowered citizens to take a leading role in the production of data, evidence and knowledge around mobility in their local areas. Five case studies across Europe were involved
List of parameters measured: Other
Location: London, United Kingdom
Description: SAMHE brings together pupils, teachers, scientists from 6 institutions across the UK and is supported by the UK Governments' Department for Education. SAMHE will establish a network of air quality monitors in schools across the UK, creating an unparalleled dataset which will help researchers better understand schools' indoor air quality and provide evidence for better national policies and practice. This will enable pupils to interact with real world data about their environment and gives them agency to take informed action.
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, Temperature, Humidity, CO2, VOC
Location: Wilrijk, Belgium
Description: CurieuzenAir is a scientific research project that aimed to map the air quality across the whole of Brussels. Citizens, schools and companies joined the largest citizen science project ever carried out in Brussels. For one month and at 3000 different locations, citizens attached a sensor panel with two measuring tubes to a window to measure the concentration of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the outdoor air. The results expose the difference in air quality across the city with unprecedented spatial detail.
List of parameters measured: NO2
Location: Best, Netherlands
Description: We measure at different levels, we educate in schools, have master program in high school, help institutions to 4 x WIN, do multiple areas of research (airport, city, rural, etc). Involved are 21 municipalities, citizens groupings, universities, high schools, primary schools, technological supplies, entrepreneurs, province, health authorities, etc. Main goal: shared responsibility for health and a healthy environment.
List of parameters measured: PM1, PM2.5, PM10, NO2, Temperature, Humidity, UFPs (Ultrafine particles), O3, Noise
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Description: Crowdsourced citizen air quality monitoring with mobile low cost sensors. Participatory budgeting and local air quality improving interventions in 3 districts. Developing the air quality monitoring station network in the Helsinki by building new hyper-local new generation sensor networks in three city districts.
Air quality data analysis development using advanced modelling, AI and machine learning. Scientific research work towards developing new Air Quality Index 2.0. New APIs for open data.
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, PM10, NO2, NO, Temperature, Humidity, CO2, VOC, O3, Noise, Black Carbon
Location: Heerlen, Netherlands
Description: With a variety of our sensors and mobile phones, citizens can run/hike/bike to measure air and water quality.
List of parameters measured: PM2.5, Other