Descrizione del progetto
I cittadini al centro della salute pubblica e dell’ambiente urbano
Qual è la relazione tra qualità ambientale, attività fisica e stress nell’ipertensione tra i cittadini? In che modo l’inquinamento nella tua città influisce sulla tua salute? Sono queste le domande che il progetto CitiesS-Health, finanziato dall’UE, porrà ai residenti in cinque città europee (Barcellona, Kaunas, Lubiana, Amsterdam, Lucca). L’obiettivo del progetto è sviluppare un modello di scienza dei cittadini per valutare l’inquinamento atmosferico e acustico urbano, la combustione del legno, la progettazione urbana e la mobilità a livello locale. Un’innovazione chiave del progetto sarà lo studio dell’associazione tra queste esposizioni e le ripercussioni sulla salute. I cittadini partecipanti allo studio definiranno i quesiti della ricerca e contribuiranno all’analisi, all’interpretazione e alla comunicazione dei risultati.
Obiettivo
Scientific evidence about the negative health effects of urban environmental exposures is mounting. Yet key scientific gaps exist. Surveys show that citizens are increasingly concerned about the consequences of these exposures on their own health, and are engaged in data collection and activism efforts around problems such as urban mobility and air and noise pollution. These concerns, along with the availability of affordable crowd-sensing and data processing technologies that allow citizens to measure environmental and health parameters, make environmental epidemiology studies an ideal, yet underexplored opportunity to develop citizen science projects. Enabling collaboration between researchers and citizens to generate solid, unbiased scientific evidence of local relevance can reduce existing information gaps. It can empower people to contribute to novel and bottom-up research agendas, interventions and co-creation of public policies.
The aim of the Citizen Science Project on Urban Environment and Health (CitieS-Health) is to develop an effective citizen science model at the maximum collaboration level. The project will develop citizen science projects in five diverse European cities (Barcelona, Kaunas, Ljubljana, Amsterdam, Lucca), assessing urban air and noise pollution, wood burning, urban design and mobility at local levels. An innovative aspect of CitieS-Health is studying the link between these exposures and health impacts. Citizens will participate in defining research questions, designing and implementing studies, and analysing, interpreting and communicating results. The projects will inform the first open toolkit for the development and promotion of citizen science projects in urban environment and health. The project will also co-design a set of governance principles and procedures to allow participants control over project data and outcomes, and will contribute indicators to assess the project's impacts on different sectors.
Campo scientifico
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiespublic policies
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing
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H2020-SwafS-2018-1
Meccanismo di finanziamento
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
08036 Barcelona
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