AmIAire
Citizen science and sport in the classroom to monitor air quality and raise awareness of its environmental impact.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
In most European cities, air pollution levels exceed the threshold for protecting human health. Children are particularly sensitive to this reality, so it is important to ensure that their level of exposure is as low as possible.
AmIAire is a citizen science and action research project related to air quality monitoring.
Students will participate in the project with the aim of first-person monitoring of air quality in urban and rural areas. The data collected should be used by scientists and public administrations to improve particulate matter dispersion and deposition models or to create new mobility or urban planning policies.
The students will use a white cardboard paper with a layer of petroleum jelly on which the suspended particles will be stuck for a week in the open air.
The youngest students will observe with their eyes or with the help of magnifying glasses “how dirty” the paper is after seven days of exposure.
The secondary school students will use their mobile phones and software developed by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of DEUSTO to automatically recognise the levels of contamination from images taken with the paper sensors. These images will be geolocated to create a virtual map.
PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS
Type of project: National
Duration: School year 2024-2025
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
-Stimulate citizen participation in science and technology.
– Promote changes in attitudes or behaviour in matters related to science and technology.
– To increase the sensitivity of children and adolescents themselves and their knowledge of the environmental impact of our daily actions.
– To create an open database for research teams in the areas of sustainability and sensory science to complement the data collected by fixed atmospheric stations.
– To be able to make better informed decisions by public administrations and councils in terms of mobility and urban and rural environment.
IBERCIVIS’ ROLE
Scientific communication and visibility will be the responsibility of the Ibercivis Foundation for the promotion of citizen science. All the information and didactic material produced in the project will be written in easy reading, a method designed to make information accessible to people with reading comprehension difficulties.
OUR ACTIVITIES
– Scientific communication and visibility of the project.
– Visual identity and graphic material.
