APPRAISAL

Air Pollution Policies foR Assessment of Integrated Strategies At regional and Local scales

APPRAISAL is a European project under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) with the aim of assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the different methodologies used in the Member States for air quality assessment and monitoring, and which intends to propose possible ways to improve these methodologies (and also the way in which their efficiency is measured) through guidelines.

Project: APPRAISAL – Air Pollution Policies foR Assessment of Integrated Strategies At regional and Local scales Tipo di progetto: EUROPEAN FP7 308395 Budget: 2’301’010 Euros Durata: 2012 – 2015 Number and Partners involved: 14 project partnerz; University of Brescia with Politecnico of Milan (IT), TerrAria (IT), JRC – Joint Research Centre (IT), Systems Research Institute Of The Polish Academy Of Sciences Ibs Pan (PL), Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis (GR), Universite Libre De Bruxelles (BE), Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (FR), Universidade De Aveiro (PT), Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional De Supercomputacion (SP), Institut National De L Environnement Et Des Risques INERIS (FR), Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek n.v. (BE), Centro se Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas-Ciemat (SP), The Finnish Environment Institute – SYKE (FL), Les White Ass.Ld. (UK). Role: Partner

APPRAISAL wants to offer technical and scientific support to air quality policy makers. The project was developed in two main phases. During the first, a comprehensive review of air quality and health assessment methodologies was carried out, these were analyzed, and the possibility of implementing integrated assessment model (IAM) tools was also assessed; key areas to be addressed for research and innovation were identified; and key stakeholders to be involved were examined. While in the second phase, the guidelines were tested on two case studies: the Porto region (PT) and the Brussels area (B). The scheme suggested by the EEA (European Environmental Agency), namely the DPSIR (Driver, Pression, State, Impact, Response) was used as a methodological reference.

THE ROLE OF TERRARIA 

TerrAria was responsible for the development of the online database that enabled the survey of methodologies used at Member States and allows the results to be visualized concisely through graphs and reports. Also, TerrAria supported the partners responsible for the case studies in applying the chosen methodology and was responsible for producing the project Layman’s Report in epub form and served on the Steering Committee.