Federica Porcu

Globally, 7 million people die each year because of air pollution; 650,000 of these are children. Air pollutants not only affect our health, they also affect ecosystems and food production; air pollution is also linked to climate change. Despite this, most citizens don’t have access to real-time air quality data. To deal with this necessity, …

Last February the UNEP launched the largest Air Quality Data Platform at WUFRead More »

Last October, in the occasion of the 17th ICOST Conference held in New York, PULSE project presented its new animated promotional video, which is now available in the new projects’ section of the YouTube ECHAlliance Channel. WATCH THE VIDEO The video, realized by ECHAlliance as leader of the Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation activities within the …

H2020 PULSE Project video available on YouTubeRead More »

Tomorrow, PULSE project will participate at the Big Data for Health Policy Symposium, an event organized by the MIDAS project consortium, which will take place in Derry (Northern Ireland) at the Ulster University Magee Campus. During the PM18 Projects Dissemination Session, five projects funded under the H2020 call “SC1-PM-18-2016 – Big Data supporting Public Health …

PULSE at the MIDAS – Big Data for Health Policy Symposium 20th – 21st January 2020 Ulster University, Magee Campus Derry (Northern Ireland)Read More »

Last week, PULSE participated at the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 which took place in Madrid under the Presidency of the Government of Chile and has been held with logistical support from the Government of Spain. The Countries were scheduled to update their climate plans and boost their ambition by 2020 based on the implementation …

PULSE at the COP25 in MadridRead More »

The ICOST Conference 2019 took place in New York City, USA, from 14th to 15th October. Hosted by the New York University (NYU) and the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), the event succeeded also this year in bringing together an international community of researchers and experts from different continents and raised awareness about citizen’s …

Highlights of the 17th International Conference on Smart Living and Public Health 2019Read More »

Pollution increases the risk of stroke, but also the severity of these strokes. Specifically, and according to a study conducted by the Hospital del Mar Institute for Medical Research (IMIM) in Barcelona, living in areas with high noise levels increases the chances of suffering a more serious stroke and more complex consequences by 30%. Instead, …

A research of the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona confirms that residing in greener environments reduces the risk of strokes by 25%Read More »

To boost ambition and accelerate actions to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling on all leaders to New York the 23th of September for the 2019 Climate Action Summit with the concrete, realistic plans to enhance their nationally determined contributions by 2020, in line with reducing greenhouse gas …

UN Climate Action Summit 2019. The WHO calls stakeholders to take action on climate and health.Read More »

A new scientific article from Life Supporting Technologies (LifeSTech), the innovation research group from the Technical University of Madrid, has been published in the scientific journal Sensors, Volume 19, Issue 13 (July-1 2019). The paper, which presents the design and development of PulsAir App and data ecosystem model, explains how these developments are imperative and …

Empowering Citizens through Perceptual Sensing of Urban Environmental and Health Data Following a Participative Citizen Science Approach. New Publication from LifeSTechRead More »

The EU Clean Air Forum 2017 in Paris concluded with a message “Solutions to improve air quality further are within reach, but to tackle air pollution successfully, we need to work together across economic sectors, across decision-making levels, across policy areas and together with citizens.” One year later, the European Commission adopted the Communication “A Europe …

CLEAN AIR FORUM 28th-29th November 2019. Bratislava, Slovakia #CleanAirEURead More »

A paradigm shift towards data-driven urban policies is occurring: innovative tools and techniques have been developed to collect, store, analyse, process and visualize large amount of environmental, sensor, health, social and open data. Nevertheless, Europe is still far from taking full advantage of such revolution to inform urban intesectorial policies and improve population health and wellbeing. In this context, …

“The Big Data Revolution for Public Health” PULSE at the European Week of Regions and Cities. (8th October Brussels from 16:30 to 19:00)Read More »