Do we breathe toxic air? Will we see one day car-free streets? What do scientists say: are there solutions? What has changed after three years of dieselgate? What steps are been taken the Governments of Madrid and Valencia and Barcelona? What are the demands of the social movements? Why it is so difficult to take-off[…]
Friday 19TH and Saturday 20th October, Barcelona Do we breathe toxic air? Will we see one day car-free streets? What do scientists say: are there solutions? What has changed after three years of dieselgate? What steps are been taken the Governments of Madrid and Valencia and Barcelona? What are the demands of the social movements?[…]
An open access version of our article “Testing the performance of sensors for ozone pollution monitoring in a citizen science approach” is available online. The paper has been published in Science of the Total Environment, an International Journal for Scientific Research into the Environment and its Relationship with Humankind. It presents the main findings about[…]
For two full days CAPTOR was sharing a market stand with other great initiatives on “Clean air for all”. Together with representatives from the hackair Team, the sensebox and the Joint Research Centre Ispra we were busy explaining participants at the European Citizen Science Conference in Geneva how far we have come with measuring air pollution[…]
According to the organisers, Climate camps are the heart of the international climate movement. For a few days we will live together in a self-organized way, networking, forming and shaping actions. The camp should provide space for the exchange of ideas, interests and information and it should be a place of inspiration. A place where people[…]
CAPTOR had a stand at this year’s Maker Faire in Vienna. It was a great success. Our stand was occupied during the whole day by interested citizens who showed excitement about low cost sensors, about the prevention of air pollution and about the possibility to get engaged and follow our progress. Thanks to all who[…]
Preliminary results of the CAPTOR project were presented yesterday in Vic during the workshop of the 2018 official ozone campaign in Catalonia, organized by the Catalan government and the local administrations. It was a very successful presentation and we could summarize the progress of the project.
We recently held our first DIY workshop. Five teams composed of interested citizens and project partners from Spain, France and Italy, spent a whole day at the Happylab in Vienna to build their own ozone measuring devices from scratch. To get feeling of how the workshop went, it’s best to watch this short video: 20180420_CAPTOR_Workshop_Happylab_3 from[…]
You can now check out all the data that was collected in the 3 countries, Austria, Italy and Spain during the ozone measuring campaign in 2017. If you click on any of the pins on the map you will get a visualisation of the ozone data measured in that specific location. http://map.captor-project.eu/
CAPTOR project launches airACT, a new application that informs about air pollutants in real time and helps to act against them. Air pollution cannot be seen but it is breathed. It is the main public health problem in our cities. The new airACT app aims to bring the problem of air pollution closer to the[…]