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[…]
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[…]
More than 80 organisations took part in the III Congress of the III Catalan Enviromental Congress last february 16th, to address the future environmental challenges of Catalonia and influence in public policies. The 140 participants gathered in 6 workshops concluded 40 prominent challenges. Maria García from Ecologistas en Acción was responsible for the organization of[…]
We are happy to send around our second CAPTOR Newsletter. It provides insights into the highlights from the 2017 project activities! Download it here as captor_neewsletter02 (PDF Document). If you want to regularly receive news from us, sign up to the CAPTOR Newsletter.
The 4th Austrian Citizen Science Conference took place in Salzburg, 1.-3. Feb. 2018. CAPTOR was there for 2 full days presenting the experiences from the Ozone measuring campaign in Summer 2017 in Austria. The topic raised considerable interest amongst the participants and people showed interest in the maker workshop, which is planned for April 2018.[…]
The annual report on air pollution in the Italian cities More and more chronic smog emergency in Italy: unbreathable air in big cities with a “red code” for air quality in 2017, due to the high concentrations of fine particles and ozone. The report “Mal’Aria 2018 – Europe calls, Italy answers” on air pollution in[…]
The First Catalan Conference on Environmental Law was held during the days 17,18,19 of January in Tarragona (Spain) and has pretended to be an open space for debate and exchange between academia, administrations, economic actors and social organizations, with international participation. The Conferences were organized by the Tarragona Centre for Environmental Law Studies, of the[…]
captorAIR use the data from CAPTOR nodes which are sensing devices designed to monitor ozone pollution in three different European regions. They are low cost sensors implemented in a citizen science approach, to increase population awareness with regard to ozone pollution. Because the low cost sensors have higher uncertainty than official reference instrumentation, the data[…]
This year, “Urban Ecosystem” was presented again: the ranking of sustainability among the 104 provincial capitals of the Italian province. The report, which came to the 24th edition, is one of Legambiente’s annual fixed appointment. For this 2017, and not the first time, a very varied picture of the situation emerges. There are a total[…]
The report on ozone pollution published today by Ecologists in Action concludes that 81% of the population and 87% of Spanish territory have been exposed this year to levels of ozone, exceeding the limits set by the World Health Organisation. The causes of this problem include: the prevailing meteorological conditions, climate change, the increase in[…]