The IDEAL Cluster for Indoor Air Quality and Health, in which the LEARN project participates, celebrated its first Annual Meeting last May 15th-16th 2024 in Helsinki, Finland. This cluster is a task force promoted by the European Commission to optimise synergies and increase the impact of a series of Horizon Europe projects dealing with indoor air quality and health.
The meetings were hosted at Aalto University in Espoo, the coordinator of the InChildHealth project and current coordinator of the IDEAL Cluster as a whole, and counted on the participation of around 20 researchers and R&I professionals in the representation of the seven projects and working groups of the cluster, plus over 70 who connected online.
Three members of the LEARN project were present on site, including Ernesto Alfaro-Moreno and Ana Ribeiro from INL, as project coordinators and leaders of the cluster’s Working Group 7 on In-vitro models, and Marina Marcos from FI Group, as co-leaders of the cluster’s Working Group 3 on Communication and dissemination.
What was discussed during the IDEAL Cluster Annual Meeting?
Project presentations
During the meetings, the coordinators of the seven EU-funded projects part of the IDEAL Cluster presented their progress, highlights and lessons learned, including:
- InChildHealth, by Emmanuelle Castagnoli
- INQUIRE, by Pernilla Bohlin Nizzetto
- LEARN, by Ernesto Alfaro-Moreno
- K-HEALTHinAIR, by José Fermoso Domínguez
- SynAir-G, by Nikolaos Papadopoulos
- TwinAir, by Stylianos Karatzas
- EDIAQI, by Francesco Mureddu
All projects are making significant progress and looking forward to sharing new results soon.
Working group presentations
The seven working groups of the IDEAL cluster also had the chance to present their current progress, next steps, and challenges, including the two that the LEARN project is leading, on Communication and dissemination, and In-vitro models, respectively.
This was also the occasion to discuss the common strategy to close the gaps in understanding the impact on our health and well-being of environmental, occupational and socioeconomic risk factors, focusing on indoor air quality.
Project officer Rita Araujo was also present at the meetings in the representation of the European Commission, which also counted on online interventions by Lorena Korosec and Stylianos Kephalopoulos.
© Images from the IDEAL Cluster on LinkedIn.
The LEARN project is a Horizon Europe project meant to monitor and evaluate indoor air quality at schools around Europe and its impact on children’s health. Our main goal is to develop and deploy novel sensors that can detect possibly harmful air pollutants, as well as advanced biosensors and optimised air remediation strategies. Find out more about our EU-funded
