Business Accelerator UKIM is a business technology accelerator that will help identify and support promising technology companies, start-ups, spin-offs and scale-ups in Macedonia. The measures include tailor-made early-stage investments and access to international markets, networks and communities. Our contact person is Aleksandar Stamboliev.

The State Office for Environmental Protection of Saxony-Anhalt (LAU) fulfils the legal obligation for air monitoring and provides information. It operates measuring stations at 24 representative locations in Saxony-Anhalt. By participating in our project, LAU hopes to be able to pre-validate suitable measuring stations with the help of crowdsensing-based information technology. Furthermore, a contribution to the evaluation of existing stations is expected. In addition, greater awareness of the activities and topics of the LÜSA (awareness raising) is desirable. On the other hand, the project partners hope to gain insights from the data and information of the LÜSA – Advice on technical questions of air monitoring and the provision of test facilities. The project consortium could participate in workshops and other exchange formats.

The State Ministry for Economy, Science and Digitalisation of Saxony-Anhalt supports CleanBREATHE’s efforts to strengthen the regional research strategy and to collaborate with international partners.

Science2public is a science communication agency that was leading the OpenLabNet Make Science! research project. The agency will support us through an extended network of partners and consult the project on all technical questions regarding the scientific communication and knowledge transfer.

Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems (IMWS) could support the consortium in the area of Citizen Science combined with aspects of air quality measurement. They have a wide range of experience from various projects like “OpenLabNet Make Science!”. The added value of the cooperation with the IMWS lies in the continuity of their own projects as well as in the contribution of the gained expertise.

Grünstreifen e.V. is an association that launched a citizen initiative measuring particulate matter in the city of Magdeburg (“Otto measures air quality”). The project consortium can benefit from this project in terms of Citizen Science and air quality measurement.

AirCare is a mobile app that uses open data from government and volunteer air quality sensors to map and visualize pollution in the Balkans (UNEP, 2018; Scott, 2018; Banovic, 2019). They will consult us on the development and implementation of technical issues and undertake joint research on infrastructures for digital supported learning.

Pulse eco is a crowdsourcing platform, which gathers and presents environmental data. The network of sensor installations and other third-party sources gathers the data and translates them into visual and easy to understand information about the pollution, humidity, temperature or noise in 15 cities in Balkan Region. They will mainly support our project in providing relevant data acquisition, presentation, and prediction, based on low cost sensors for air pollution. Furthermore, they will provide insights in scaling sensor networks and possibility to use the sensor network platform for the detection of pollution sources.

O2 coalition is a civil initiative advocating for systemic and sustainable environmental solutions. The initiative will support workshops educating citizens and students on air pollution topics, configure the sensor kits, and connect the project to more civil society actors.