First, the researcher conducted a public engagement strategy to involve citizens, researchers, and local authorities in participatory workshops about air quality monitoring. Secondly, the researcher explored participatory methodologies to incorporate citizens’ contributions into the design of tools. In particular, the researcher organized participatory workshops to seek solutions for visualizing air quality information. For most of the project duration, the researcher actively participated in communication and dissemination activities related to citizen science, air quality and its impact on public health.
The accomplishments of ESAIRE include publications in academic journals, participation and workshop organization in conferences, and results oriented for its direct implementation in the design of mobile applications and web platforms, and for designing citizen science projects with ethics at its core. The accomplishments of ESAIRE are very strong in the communication and dissemination area, including a public talk at TEDxJardinsdeLaribal, published in the TED YouTube channel, blog posts, and participation in stakeholder’s events and science dissemination festivals.
ESAIRE has triggered collaborations for academic research and publications with CIEMAT (Spanish Research Center for Energy, Environment and Technology), the companies Eticas Research and Consulting and Ideas for Change in Barcelona, University College London, and the Norwegian Institute for Air Research in the context of a collaboration with the CITI-SENSE project. Also, ESAIRE has enabled collaborations for the organization and implementation of participatory workshops with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the Institute of Culture of the Barcelona City Council, the Air Quality Monitoring Service of the Catalan Government (Generalitat), the civil organization Plataforma per la Qualitat de l’Aire, the NGO Ecologistas en Acció, etc.
The fellow has participated in knowledge transfer to researchers and technicians at ISGlobal (former CREAL) about participatory methods in Science and the Horizon 2020 program of “Science with and for Society”. In exchange, the fellow has benefited from her stay at ISGlobal learning about air pollution and environmental health, and geographic information systems. Thanks to ESAIRE, the fellow has become part of a European network on Citizen Science, being an active member of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) and the COST Action “CA15212: Citizen Science to promote creativity, scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe”. Finally, the fellow has developed a coherent career development plan for the coming years and has engaged in training for accomplishing her plans.
