Training Activity within the VISIONAIR Erasmus+ Project at the UCT in Prague
19.12.2024
During 3-5 December 2024, the first training activity within the Erasmus+ Cooperative Partnerships Project "Increasing the Visibility and Knowledge Base on Air Quality With Big Data and Its Impact on the Population Health" (VISIONAIR).
Participants of the training activity were welcomed by the local project coordinator from the UCT, Assoc. prof. Dr. Ing. Marek Doležal and researcher Ing. Vojtech Ilko, Ph.D., who also introduced their university. Next, the main project coordinator doc. Ing. Jakub Berčík, PhD. presented the agenda of the three-day training, the tasks completed so far within the project, especially WP3 "Identification of health impacts due to air pollution", schedule and activities, as well as the upcoming tasks. Subsequently, PhDr. Anna Mravcová, PhD. summarised the theoretical overview developed within the WP2 by the Slovak project researchers and Ing. Johana Paluchová, PhD. presented the results of the first questionnaire survey carried out at the partner organisations. Then the local coordinator from the host university guided the participants through their laboratories and also showed them the measuring station, which has already been installed within the framework of this project for measuring air pollution. In the afternoon, the project coordinator presented the results of the second questionnaire survey, carried out within the project consortium, after which Ing. Filip Tkáč, PhD. had an online presentation on statistical processing of surveys and project data, to which an important discussion developed. Subsequently, Ing. Jana Gálová, PhD. presented the WP1 and management tasks online, too, which were then discussed with the individual partners. At the end of the day, the project coordinator presented the distribution of tasks within WP3 for the next period, followed by a discussion and closing of the first day. In the evening, a joint dinner was held for networking.
On the second day, an excursion was organised in a production company in Karlovy Vary, within the framework of a practical study on air quality. During the third day, a practical presentation of data collection within WP3 of all partners took place, as well as a very extensive and fruitful discussion on the practical workshops planned within the project and activities related to the use of innovative approaches and modern methods, such as the above mentioned measuring units that are to be installed at the universities of all participating foreign partners.
The VISIONAIR project (https://www.visionairproject.eu/) aims to engage students in summarizing available and new knowledge on air quality (big data), identifying environmental, economic and social consequences and health risks of air pollution based on the collected data, and developing proposals and concepts to improve air quality and to create a model for simplified data presentation and interpretation.
The coordinator of the Project "Increasing the Visibility and Knowledge Base on Air Quality With Big Data and Its Impact on the Population Health" (VISIONAIR), no. 2023-1-SK01-KA220-HED-000158470, is the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra and the consortium further consists of Catholic University in Ružomberok (CU, Slovakia), Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche (UMH, Spain), University of Chemistry and Technology Prague (UCT, Czech Republic) and University of Zagreb (UNIZG, Croatia).
