AIMS
Strengthen longstanding research collaboration between partners to:
- Further research on particulate matter
- Develop observational capacities
- Generate new data in a geographic area where there are significant research gaps
- Contribute to understanding sources of PM by performing source apportionment using novel types of inputs, including Oxidative potential online and offline PM characterization
The coordinating institution and Serbian collaborating partners
- to become nationally and internationally recognized research groups able to support the development of new monitoring and assessment systems for atmospheric aerosols, with relevance to risk management and air quality management
- to bring to the level necessary to be a scientifically excellent scientific centre that can contribute to ACTRIS and RI-URBANS, and start to prepare to be associated with these infrastructures.
The international partners
- will gain new insights on PM and expand their academic and stakeholder networks
Primary objectives
- Enhancing the R&I capacity of the participating institutions through short term missions, workshops and training, and stakeholder contacts
- Raising staff research profile by joint publishing, organizing and participation in international conferences
- Raising the institutions’ research profile, by demonstrating new skills and entering new collaboration
constellations, including joint development of collaborative research proposals - Development and implementation of new, interdisciplinary research tools for air quality assessment
- Providing data to ACTRIS
- Becoming a viable candidate for a National Facility within ACTRIS
Secondary objectives
- Strengthen existing and build new research capabilities in atmospheric monitoring and assessment in the participating institutions, particularly from the widening county
- Plan and perform air pollution measuring campaigns in Serbia. Measurements will use both real times, online and off-line techniques of PM characterization, and the data will be assessed using additional advanced assessment techniques
- Disseminate the results to relevant stakeholders
Increase the scientific and management expertise of project partners regarding levels, physical-chemical properties and toxic potential of ambient PM relevant for Western Balkan urban and urban-industrial area