Project description
How clean is the air you breathe?
From itchy eyes to nausea, poor indoor air quality can make you sick. It is a big concern since short- and long-term exposure to indoor air pollution can cause a range of health issues, including serious illnesses such as heart disease and cancer. The EU-funded K-HEALTHinAIR project will assess indoor air quality (IAQ) effects on health on the basis of an extensive monitoring campaign of chemical and biological indoor air pollutants. Drawing on the results, the project will also deliver affordable and easy-to-implement ways to monitor and improve IAQ, including equipment and tools to help with the daily monitoring of IAQ in homes and workplaces. The results will lead to new science-based regulations.
Objective
K-HEALTHinAIR aims at the assessment of the indoor air quality (IAQ) effects in health on the basis of an extensive monitoring campaign of chemical and biological indoor air pollutants in several very representative at EU level indoor locations together with a deep research on their sources, interactions and main correlations with health problems by means of theoretical analysis, clinical trials and tests (includes in vivo/vitro approaches). Moreover, Project will deliver affordable and easy for implementation measurements to monitor and improve current IAQ.
The project will deliver structured knowledge coming from both the monitoring, characterization and research stages formed by extensive and accurate data, qualitative information and guidelines in an easy and fully open access format to support public authorities, policy makers and many other collectives. Project will also deliver innovative equipment and associated tools to the citizens as main final users enabling them to monitor indoor air quality for identifying health risks and suggesting suitable solutions to mitigate them.
The advanced knowledge will be obtained by means of the deployment of a set of fully complementary activities.
The organization and publication of the knowledge generated in a fully open access platform looks for being considered a reference in accuracy and simplicity to favor easy consultation from public authorities and policy makers and support the definition of new legislations, regulations and standards. K-HEALTHinAIR ensures the integration of the existing legislation (e.g. in work places) within a comprehensive proposition of new indoor air quality standards leading new science-based regulations.
K-HEALTHinAIR will deploy activities leading to effectively engaging most of the collectives concerned verifying that project results will impact as it is expected.
Project K-HEALTHinAIR is part of the European cluster on indoor air quality and health (name and acronym to be decided)
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47151 Boecillo
Spain
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Participants (17)
28006 Madrid
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28040 MADRID
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28760 Tres Cantos Madrid
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28037 Madrid
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46870 Ontinyent
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
08036 Barcelona
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08036 Barcelona
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31192 NOAIN
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1099 085 Lisboa
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71636 Ludwigsburg
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
71636 Ludwigsburg
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91 348 Lodz
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00-661 WARSZAWA
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1090 Wien
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4604 Kristiansand
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D02H364 DUBLIN
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3015 GD Rotterdam
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