Zaragoza

The SOCIO-BEE pilot project in Zaragoza aims to build a stable community of volunteers working together to monitor the city’s air quality.

The collection and analysis of this data, through the technology offered by the project, will provide scientific data and, through the conclusions obtained, will be able to influence the city’s municipal policies on mobility, urban planning.

Additionally, participants will also be able to make decisions based on the scientific evidence they themselves have obtained to influence their daily behaviour.

We will work with teenagers and young people who will test the usefulness of the technology developed by the project by participating in citizen science campaigns where they will measure the quality of the air we breathe in real time. Subsequently, this community will remain open to any person interested in the environment and in improving air quality in Zaragoza’s neighbourhoods.

Read the Zaragoza policy paper.

The hypothesis to be probed with the citizen science campaigns: Can the scientific experimentation carried out in schools with the project’s technology help to raise awareness of air quality on yountgsters and teenageers?

Campaigns Objectives:

1. Facilitate the active participation of young people in the analysis of Zaragoza’s air quality.
2. Analyse, draw and display conclusions about air quality in Zaragoza.
3. Facilitate an analysis of air quality after a process of co-creation and community work done by the participants.
4. Test the improvements done in the technology of the project (software and hardware).