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OpenLitterMap

Due to the urgency of plastic pollution, including an estimated average of about 900 tonnes of plastic entering the oceans every hour, new and improved forms of open data are …

The plastic experiment – Plastexperimentet

Through a nationwide citizen science project, involving participants across the whole of Sweden collecting and analysing plastic waste, we will undertake a scientific study together with a researcher to investigate …

COMPAIR

Pollution monitoring in the EU has a long history, and it’s one of the most comprehensive and advanced sources of evidence that exist in various environmental domains. Nevertheless, a few …

SOCIO-BEE

Citizens and their communities, particularly those that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, can play an important role in achieving climate neutrality. Scientists are developing social innovation tools …

NOSE - Network for Odour Sensitivity

The NOSE project started in 2019 from the collaboration between ARPA Sicilia (the Regional Environmental Protection Agency) and the National Research Council – Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science (CNR-ISAC) …

ACTION

The ACTION (Participatory science toolkit against pollution) project was co-funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 framework, SwafS programme. It supported, via open calls and an acceleration programme …

URwatair

Citizens are involved in urban rainwater monitoring as well as in urban air pollution monitoring, the latter on the basis of various indoor and outdoor scenarios, by employing low cost …

CURL

Do ocean users put their health at risk by practicing their activities? 

The ocean is polluted by chemical substances, but no study today shows their consequences on our bodies. Moreover, …

D-NOSES

D-NOSES will empower citizens to become a driving force for change through RRI, citizen science and co-creation tools to map and measure the problem, and co-design solutions with key quadruple …

Nixnox

The places where you can enjoy trully dark skies are disappearing due to light pollution. The Spanish Astronomy Society (SEA) promotes a common effort between amateurs and professionals to motivate …

Sympnia - Air quality monitoring and forecasting using satellite and …

Except from data from official ground-based air quality monitoring stations, Sympnia will use satellite data from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), and measurements from low-cost sensors that will be …

CurieuzeNeuzen Vlaanderen

During CurieuzeNeuzen Vlaanderen, twenty thousand homes, businesses and schools across Flanders measured the levels of NO2, an important indicator for air pollution caused by traffic, in their street. In May …

Liquencity·2

Liquencity·2 represents the continuation of the citizen science LiquenCity (more information at www.liquencity.org), in which more than 2,000 people participated in the cities of Madrid and Barcelona. In this new …

Street Spectra

Turn your smartphone into a scientific instrument to analyze lamps colors and their spectra using a diffraction grating.

The Star-Spotting Experiment (Stjärnförsöket)

Our use of artificial light has dramatically changed the environment in large parts of the world. Scientific studies have shown unexpected and worrying effects on the biology of many organisms …

Kampala NOSES (Network for Odour Sensing Empowerment and Sustainability)

A pilot project designed to introduce novel ways with which to monitor and record odour issues across Kampala. Kampala NOSES aimed to raise awareness about the odour around the city and …