Meet the PI for AIT

Clara Pogner is the PI for AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and leading the WP4 Technology development and mitigation strategies which focuses on: Development, assessment and deployment of cost-effective and user-friendly monitoring devices, control strategies, and devices to facilitate a user-friendly alert system that can influence social behaviour Development and deployment of novel technologies to improve indoor environmental quality to …

InChildHealth at ECSA 2024

Teresa Schäfer, Claudia Magdalena Fabian, Barbara Kieslinger and Elisabeth Unterfrauner from the ZSI team participated to the 5th European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) conference that was held in Vienna. During their workshop “How to include schools in science health studies: practical experiences and lessons learned?” the main points of the discussion were: STE(A)M education is becoming more significant for science education and …

The start of our sampling campaigns

Did you know that we are starting sampling in 4 countries? We are monitoring the air quality in places where primary school children spend their time. This will help us understand what children are exposed to in their daily life. Stay tuned for more news!

Identifying determinants for indoor air quality and their health impact in environments for children: measures to improve indoor air quality and reduce disease burdens

The InChildHealth project will integrate health, environmental, technical and social sciences research to identify determinants for Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and evaluate their impact in environments occupied by school children. Real-life indoor air quality (IAQ) data will be collected across Europe. User-friendly and low-cost monitoring technologies and strategies (technical and behavioural) to improve IAQ and reduce disease burdens will be …

Meet the PI from CSEM

Stephan Dasen is a project manager and communication systems engineer, together with a team of highly skilled engineers and technicians, provides wearable sensors allowing to monitor the health status as well as the activity of asthmatic children. Working in CSEM, he is responsible for the wearable sensors​ under the InChildHealth Project.

InChildHealth meeting in Lisbon

Over 40 members of the InChildHealth consortium convened in Lisbon, Portugal for the hybrid consortium meeting held in Lisbon, Portugal. During the week a lot of brainstorming and discussion went into adding the final touches to the sampling strategy for the Tier0 and Tier1 sampling campaigns, and reviewing the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for sampling. This meeting was hosted at …

Meet the IPL team

Did you know that H&TRC – Health and Technology Research Center has a massive expertise in microbiologic agents exposure, mainly in indoor air environmental, as well as, occupational environments? These four researchers – Carla Viegas, Marina Almeida-Silva, Edna Ribeiro and Liliana Aranha Caetano – will collaborate in several WP from the InChildHealth Project and also in IDEAL Cluster.

Meet the CSEM team

CSEM (Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique) is a Swiss Research and Technology Organisation. It creates value through future innovative solution for health monitoring. CSEM is active in two major technological developments for the consortium. Wearable Sensors Stephan Dasen, project manager and communication systems engineer, together with a team of highly skilled engineers and technicians, provides wearable sensors allowing to …

Meet the PI of IPL

Carla Viegas is the Principal investigator for H&TRC – Health and Technology Research Center, Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Politécnico de Lisboa.