Project description
Innovative urban air quality monitoring
Cities and industrial areas are air pollution hotspots. Assessing the sources and health effects of air pollution is a first step towards reducing it. The EU-funded RI-URBANS project will demonstrate how advanced service tools from atmospheric research infrastructures (RI) can be adapted to tackle air quality challenges and societal needs in urban and industrial areas. It will provide enhanced air quality observations for advanced air quality policy assessment by developing synergies between air quality Monitoring Networks (AQMNs) and RIs in the atmospheric domain. This will increase the capacity of AQMNs to evaluate, predict and support urban air pollution restriction policies. Combining science and technology, RI-URBANS will implement five pilot service tools in nine European cities.
Objective
RI-URBANS aims to demonstrate how Service Tools (STs) from atmospheric Research Infrastructures (RIs) can be adapted and enhanced to better address the challenges and societal needs concerning air quality (AQ) in European cities and industrial hotspots. RI-URBANS responds to urgent needs to substantially reduce air pollution across EU by providing enhanced AQ observations in support of advanced AQ policy assessment. We develop and enhance synergies between AQ Monitoring Networks (AQMNs) and RIs in the atmospheric domain and combine advanced science knowledge and innovative technologies to develop pilot STs. These will enhance the AQMNs capacity to evaluate, predict and support policies for abating urban air pollution. RI-URBANS deploys tools and information systems in the hands of citizens and communities to support decision-making by AQ managers and regulators. The focus is on ambient nanoparticles and atmospheric particulate matter, their sizes, constituents, source contributions and gaseous precursors. RI-URBANS will evaluate novel AQ parameters, source contributions, and their associated health effects to demonstrate the European added value of implementing such STs. The project builds on existing initiatives for advanced research-driven AQ observations at supersites from European cities to provide the innovative AQ STs. Five implemented pilots in 9 cities will demonstrate the ability to integrate complementary STs in AQMNs and data management using FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable) principles. RI-URBANS will address all aspects of sustainability, including efficient curation, preservation and provision of access to data, training and capacity building, and how the use of tools will be secured in the future. Finally, upscaling and sustainability will be provided to the offered AQMNs-RIs interoperable services, using advanced instrumentation, modelling, source apportionment, integrated citizens observatories and mobile measurements.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materials
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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.1.4. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Research Infrastructures Main Programme
Call for proposal
(opens in new window) H2020-LC-GD-2020
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H2020-LC-GD-2020-6
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
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00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
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75794 Paris
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75015 PARIS 15
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77455 Marne La Vallee Cedex 2
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94010 Creteil
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31062 Toulouse Cedex 9
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13572 Marseille
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75006 Paris
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00185 Roma
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00560 Helsinki
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3584 CS Utrecht
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B15 2TT Birmingham
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70013 Irakleio
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5232 Villigen Psi
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3731 GA De Bilt
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2628 CN Delft
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2400 Mol
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8600 Dubendorf
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04318 Leipzig
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52428 Julich
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2027 Kjeller
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08036 Barcelona
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60550 Verneuil En Halatte
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SW7 2AZ LONDON
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91120 Palaiseau
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11810 Athina
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15341 Agia Paraskevi
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0313 Oslo
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2595 DA Den Haag
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08034 Barcelona
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RO77125 Magurele
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00-927 Warszawa
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119992 MOSCOW
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199034 SAINT PETERSBURG
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199178 ST PETERSBURG
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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00560 HELSINKI
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