NEWS & EVENTS

The EDIAQI project, a proud member of the IDEAL Cluster, is excited to share that Advisory Board Member Gaetano Settimo has been appointed to the Expert Advisory Committee of the Global Open Air Quality Standards (GO AQS). While the push for standardisation within the...

We are thrilled to announce the latest installment of the EDIAQI webinar series co-organised with the TwinAir project, “Spend Less, Breathe Better: The Potential of Low-Cost Sensors to Revolutionise Indoor Air Quality Management,” which will take place on 19th...

On November 6th, the LEARN and K-HEALTHinAIR Projects participated in the Workshop on “Using Real-Life Air Pollutants for In Vitro Toxicological Assessment”. The coordinators of these projects, Ernesto Alfaro-Moreno from INL and Jose Fermoso from CARTIF, respectively,...

The IDEAL Cluster is a collaborative effort that aims to close significant knowledge gaps regarding how key environmental, occupational, and socio-economic risk factors impact health and well-being across Europe. Focusing on indoor air quality (IAQ), the cluster...

We are excited to share new insights from the InChildHealth project, which is conducting a comprehensive epidemiological study across three major European cities: Helsinki, Barcelona, and Copenhagen. This study aims to explore the impact of indoor air quality in...

SynAir-G is excited to invite you to the second hybrid workshop of SynAir-G Series: Improving indoor air quality for healthier children! SynAir-G is excited to invite you to the second hybrid workshop of SynAir-G Series: Improving indoor air quality for healthier...

During the days 19 and 20th of June InChildHealth Project was represented in the 14th international conference “Moulds and Mycotoxins” (https://mycotoxin.ukw.edu.pl/jednostka/mycotoxiand-moulds-2024) where the researcher Carla Viegas was able to share some of the...

Our IPL team is thrilled to announce that we are in the final stages of our Citizen Science activities as part of the European InChildHealth project. Over the past months, we have engaged with children and teachers from the participating schools in a series of...

Air quality is a central topic of several ongoing Horizon Europe projects. This workshop is organised by EU project AeroSolfd and co-chaired by the EU project K-HEALTHinAiR of the IDEAL cluster. The common goal is to initiate the knowledge exchange and discussion...

On the 6th of  July 2023, the SynAir-G Coordinator was invited as a speaker to represent the  IDEAL Cluster at the 7th WHO Ministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Budapest. Prof. Nikos Papadopoulos presented the relevant role of the cluster in raising...

SynAir-G is excited to invite you to the first hybrid workshop of SynAir-G Series: Improving indoor air quality for healthier children! The series aim to introduce and discuss the latest achievements of the SynAir-G project and shed light on the importance of indoor...

InChildHealth invites you to a webinar on bioaerosols in indoor air, on the 24th of January. The webinar will showcase research on bioaerosols from InChildHealth and around the EU IDEAL Cluster. Hosted by the InChildHealth project, this webinar will showcase...

The EDIAQI project, one of the seven members of the IDEAL Cluster, hosted a workshop at the International Comfort at the Extremes (CATE) Conference 2024, held in Seville, Spain, from 20th to 22nd November 2024. The event brought together global experts, policymakers,...

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the upcoming WG7 Workshop on “Using Real-Life Air Pollutants for In Vitro Toxicological Assessment,” scheduled for November 6th. This workshop will be led by INL (LEARN) with contributions from CARTIF (K-HEALTHinAIR). The...

The first academic paper from the EDIAQI project (Evidence-driven indoor air quality improvement: An innovative and interdisciplinary approach to improving indoor air quality) addresses the emerging threat of indoor air pollution, a significant health risk that...

We are pleased to announce a major milestone for the IDEAL Cluster and its projects (K-HEALHTinAIR, SynAir-G, LEARN, TwinAIR, InChildHealth, INQUIRE, EDIAQI). The European Commission has highlighted the IDEAL Cluster and its associated projects as one of the most...

Air pollution remains the leading environmental health hazard facing Europeans, contributing to nearly 10% of premature deaths within the EU27. Considering that Europeans spend around 90% of their time indoors, where pollutant levels often exceed those outside, it is...

Children are especially vulnerable to indoor pollutants due to their ongoing growth and development, making them more susceptible to health risks. Studies suggest that poor indoor air quality (IAQ) may not only affect health but also reduce cognitive focus and school...

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is of paramount importance in relation to public health and the environment, yet it has long been relegated to the periphery of policy formulation—only to recently resurface. The shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the issue of indoor...

The EDIAQI project is a proud member of the IDEAL cluster projects, a Horizon Europe group of projects under the same call, with the collective aim to advance knowledge, technologies, and strategies for improving Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and its impact on health. A...

The Digital Health Society Summit 2023 session “Refining the connections: Advancing evidence on the linkages between environment, health and data” dived into the relationships between the environment and human health, focusing on the role of...

During the first half of November 2024, MANN+HUMMEL presented the three IDEAL cluster projects they are involved in (K-HEALTHinAIR, INQUIRE and LEARN) at two relevant filtration events happening in Germany: IUTA Filtration Day and FILTECH,...

On November 13, 2024, the first TwinAIR webinar, titled “Digital Twins & Virtual Sensors”, brought together an audience of over 80 participants, including students, academics, and researchers, to dive into the future of the indoor air quality monitoring and...

We are thrilled to announce that the first webinar of the TwinAIR Project , titled  “Digital Twins and Virtual Sensors” is going to take place on November 13, at 11:00 am. During the upcoming webinar, it will be explored a range of cutting-edge topics, focusing on...

In 2000, approximately 31% of European adults smoked regularly. By 2020, that number had dropped to around 23%, reflecting the success of strong awareness campaigns, such as mandatory warning labels on tobacco products. Similarly, in 2020 in the United Kingdom,...

The LEARN project has produced a board game titled ‘Clean air in school! Play & LEARN’, for children to learn about indoor air quality in schools and strategies to improve it, collaboratively and playfully. The game is available in four different languages,...

The LEARN project aims to develop novel sensing and remediation strategies to improve indoor air quality in school environments. Through cohort studies in three European countries (Belgium, Greece, and Denmark), the health impacts of real-life exposure to indoor air...

The K-HEALTHinAIR project, funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe Programme, is making significant strides in understanding and improving indoor air quality (IAQ) and its health impacts. This innovative initiative is conducting extensive research through diverse pilot...

The LEARN project aims to control and evaluate indoor air quality in schools and its impact on the health and cognition of children. For that, this Horizon Europe project seeks to control and evaluate the air quality and levels of exposure of...

In Europe, people spend most of their time in indoor environments. Although better outdoor air quality leads to general improvements in indoor air quality, certain sources of air pollution not covered by ambient (outdoor) air quality standards can dominate some indoor...

Episode 1: Indoor air quality in schools: impact on childrenwellbeing and role of research in Europe The first SynAir-G workshop on ‘Indoor air quality in schools: impact on children wellbeing and role of research in Europe’ took place on the 9th of October in...