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[…]
Sibylle Egger (Global 2000), Barbara Kieslinger (ZSI) and Sylvana Kroop (ZSI) on CAPTOR Tour 2018 in Austria. This summer, for the last time in this project, we are testing our ozone measuring devices CAPTOR and RAPTOR in our pilot regions in Spain, Italy and Austria. These innovative, cost-effective meters invented by our partner in[…]
Valladolid applies the traffic restriction in the center of the city for three days to reduce the levels of this atmospheric pollutant. This is the only city council in the spanish state that applies this measure since approved last year. The polluting emissions of the motorized traffic of the main cities and highways of the[…]
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[…]
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/