For the last 3 years our project colleagues from Laboratoire LIMOS in Clermont-Ferrand, France, were researching and developing the RAPTOR device to measure 03 and N02. We are happy to announce the foundation of a spin-of company named uSu-tech. The company is supported by the association “BUSI incubator”, which helps researchers, scientists, engineers to convert[…]
Our project is in its finishing phase, we prouldly present you our (potential) offsprings. So far we can introduce 4 offspring partners, that want to continue measuring campaigns or research: Town commune Weiz (Austria) The town commune of Weiz will prolonge the campaign of messuring Ozone and NO2, the topic of air quality in general[…]
There is a lot going on around the project CAPTOR. Daniel recently participated in the Summercamp of Young Friends of the Earth Europe. There he presented the project CAPTOR and talked about air pollution. The topic met with great interest and some activists shared experiences from their homeland. Once again it became clear how important[…]
As the new measuring period has already started, we used this oportunity to deploy the calibrated raptors to our hosts and made two workshops about our project and about air polution in general at the NMS WEIZ III (New middle shool) The pupils were very interested and enjoyed the workshop of Sybille and Miriam a[…]
You are interested in becoming an CAPTOR offspring Partner? That is great, there ares some easy steps to follow: First of all, answer the following questionnaire. Questionnaire and requirements check How to proceed: 1.) Please return this questionnaire to contact@captor-project.eu or to your personal contact from the CAPTOR contact consortium. The CAPTOR team will[…]
On the 1st of March we met with some hobbyists from Happylab Wien to present our project CAPTOR and to discuss the technology of our measuring instruments. The interest in the project and our Raptors and Captors was great. There was a lively discussion on the project, the measuring devices and possible suggestions for improvement.[…]
Citizen Science meets do it yourself Now it is possible to build an ozone measuring instrument yourself. The finished measuring devices can be hung by some hobbyists themselves, provided that the necessary conditions are met. The number of measuring devices to be built is limited. The combination of DIY and scientific curiosity is perfect to[…]
Captor reaches out its antennae. We take on your ideas and coach you as Captor offspring partner ! Check if you fit the requirements and get started! The Captor projects measures air pollution with self-built measuring devices in testbed regions in the 3 project countries in Austria, Italy and Spain. Workshops and events take place[…]
Captor reaches out its antennae. We take on your ideas and coach you as Captor offspring partner ! The Captor projects measures air pollution with self-built measuring devices in testbed regions in the 3 project countries in Austria, Italy and Spain. Workshops and events take place in these testbed regions. If you have a[…]
The European Researchers night is an event, where scientists all across Europe demonstrate their projects to interested visitors. Captor was presented at Vienna’s Researchers night. Especially young students and pupils showed interest in the Ozon measuring devices. Most asked question: “Can I build one myself?”