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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 101086421.
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Project name: Enhancing Citizen Observatories for healthy, sustainable, resilient and inclusive cities
Acronym: CitiObs
Project page: https://citiobs.eu/
is a four-year project funded under Horizon Europe by the European Commission. CitiObs will consolidate and apply tools and practice-based knowledge for co-creating data, knowledge and local action via Citizen Observatories (COs): these tools will enhance existing and new citizen observatories to engage citizens and marginalised communities, add value to environmental observations in the urban context, increase and validate citizen observations of the urban environment as part of the existing in-situ Earth Observation systems, co-create inclusive local actions for sustainability and ensure that CO data contributes to research and policy development towards the objectives of the European Green Deal. To ensure broad use, the CitiObs tools and approaches will be developed in co-creation with COs in 5 Frontrunner cities, finetuned with 30 Implementer cities and showcased to 50 Fellow cities.
CitiObs will support citizen observatories in distinct cities to create/enhance/or scale up inclusive and diverse citizen observatories, fostering in particular an active role of citizens in the observation of the urban environment using low-cost sensor technologies and wearables, with a particular focus on air quality and related environmental measures. CitiObs will formalise, valorise and legitimise the role of citizen observations.
The CitiObs methodology of using a large-scale demonstration, co-design and coaching approaches with CO stakeholders (citizens, scientists, policy/decision makers) in 35+50 cities in Europe explicitly build on the Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) dimensions as founding principles. Ethics consideration will be addressed consistently across all Work Packages.
- WP1. Social dimensions of Citizen Observatories for transition governance
- WP2. Tools, Technologies, and Data Services for Citizen Observatories
- WP3. Co-creation of data and actions for healthy, sustainable and resilient cities with Citizen Observatories
- WP4. Impact creation, Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation
- WP5. Project management and ethics
The idea of the project in Ukraine is documenting the damage to the environment caused by war hostilities, through creation of a local citizens’ network for the collection, processing and formation of reliable validated traceable primary information about damage to the environment caused by military hostility. This network is seen to be founded on the following pillars:
- on a basis of the involvement of local communities (on the example of the Mykolaiv region)
- through organization of local citizens into civil environmental observatories
- by the use or development of instrumental and IT tools for documenting war crimes against the environment
- by collecting, processing, validating and displaying of information using CRM and GIS technologies
- providing local communities and local governments with objective information about the consequences of military actions for the environment
Olegh Bondarenko
EXPERT ON RADIOECOLOGY AND ENERGY SECURITY
Professional interests: Environmental protection activities, innovative technologies in the defense sector of Ukraine, law-making expert and educational activities in the nuclear and environmental fields, monitoring programs and countermeasures to reduce the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, air quality monitoring and improvement, innovative solutions for carbon-neutral cities, urban energy systems, etc.
Contacts: o.o.bondarenko@gmail.com
Inna Tymchenko
EXPERT IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, EIA, SEO, AND RES DEVELOPMENT
Professional interests: Environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment, climate change, water conservation, environmental monitoring, renewable energy sources, environmental education.
Contacts: inna.tymchenko@nuos.edu.ua
Yuliia Khrystynchenko
ENERGY EXPERT, COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY MANAGER
Professional interests: Smart and integrated energy solutions for the transition to a low-carbon and resource-efficient economy, environmental education, communication technologies, PR, SMM, copywriting, translation (languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English), digital marketing, advertising and media relations.
Contacts: xryst@gw.necu.org.ua
Yevhen Bovsunovskyi
EXPERT IN ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND AIR MONITORING SYSTEMS
Professional interests: Environmentally friendly technologies in municipal utility systems, management of urban ecosystems, environmental quality monitoring, energy-independent buildings.
Contacts: bovs@stud.nau.edu.ua
Dmytro Gulevets
EXPERT IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Professional interests: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), energy efficient technologies, alternative energy.
Contacts: d.gulevets@necu.org.ua; gulevets@gmail.com
Vitalii Gulevets
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER OF NECU
Professional interests: ensuring the “viability” and efficiency of information resources, installing and configuring software, modernizing and maintaining the website, and operating geographic information systems.
Contacts: v.gulevets@necu.org.ua
Serhii Savchenko
EXPERT IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Professional interests: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), energy efficient technologies, alternative energy.
Contacts: s.savchenko@gw.necu.org.ua
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