Overview CITI-SENSE will develop “citizens’ observatories” to empower citizens to contribute to and participate in environmental governance, to enable them to support and influence community and societal priorities and associated decision making. CITI-SENSE will develop, test, demonstrate and validate  a community-based environmental monitoring and information system using innovative and novel Earth Observation applications.

To achieve this, the project will: (i) raise environmental awareness in citizens, (ii) raise user participation in societal environmental decisions and (iii) provide feedback on the impact that citizens had in decisions. It will address the call’s request for effective participation by citizens in environmental stewardship, based on broad stakeholder and user involvement in support of both community and policy priorities. The project aims to learn from citizen experience and perception and enable citizenship co-participation in community decision making and co-operative planning.

 

The concept of CITI-SENSE rests on three pillars: technological platforms for distributed monitoring; information and communication technologies; and societal involvement. Three pilot case studies will focus on a range of services related to environmental issues of societal concern: combined environmental exposure and health associated with air quality; noise and development of public spaces, and indoor air at schools. Attention will be given to representativeness of citizen participation. The case studies will be designed in collaboration with citizens’ groups and decision makers. They will be based on distributed data collection using innovative static, portable and personal devices (low-cost reliable microsensor packs) that communicate with a data repositories through mobile phones or other devices. Development of participatory methods, data management strategies, and applications to facilitate exploitation of the data and information for policy, and society, will be done.

Structure and Test Cities

Period

CITI-SENSE started in October 2012 and lasts four years.

For detail information, including News, Events, Newsletters, Deliverables, please visit CITI-SENE project website www.citi-sense.eu.

The CITI-SENSE Consortium consists of 29 partner institutions

NILU	Norwegian Institute for Air Research (Project Coordinator)		NO
PVDH	Peter van den Hazel		NL
NAAF	Norwegian Asthma and Allergy Association		NO
Technion	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology		IL
CVUT	Czech Technical University		CZ
QU	Queensland University of Technology		AU
AirBase	AirBase Systems Ltd		IL/DE
ATEKNEA	Ateknea Solutions Catalonia S.A.		ES
GAC	GAC Ltd		CZ
IOM	Institute of Occupational Medicine		UK
IBATUZ	Iritziak Batuz		ES
S&C	Sensing & Control Systems SL		ES
Alphasense	Alphasense Limited		UK
UBIMET	UBIMET GmbH		AT
U-Hopper	U-Hopper		IT
CREAL	Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology		ES
IEM	Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic		CZ
VINCA	Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences		RS
JSI	Jozef Stefan Institute		SI
SINTEF	Stiftelsen SINTEF		NO
TECNALIA	Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation		ES
KICT	Korea Institute of Construction Technology		KR
UCAM	University of Cambridge		UK
DNET	DunavNet doo Novi Sad		RS
Snowflake	Snowflake Software		UK
Geotech	Geotech		UK
Obeo	Obeo		NO
VLAGEW INBO	Research Institute for Nature and Forest – Scientific Institute of the Flemish Government		BE
Saltlux	Saltlux Incorporated		KR

Competitivenes—  SME participation  Evidence-based decision making  —Strenghtening GEOSS

• —Scientific (WPs 2,3,4,5,6)
• —Commercial (WPs 8,7,6)
• —Policy (WPs 2,3,5)
• —Urban (Citizens’ Observatories)
• —Societal (Citizens’ Observatories)
• —Standards (WPs 8,7,6)

To create infrastructure and to demonstrate feasibility of sustainable Citizen’s Observatories related to urban quality.

 

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