They will travel to school with sensors on their backpack or bicycle until November 24. The result comes live on an interactive dashboard.
Fifty fifth-year students at De Krekel in Sint-Amandsberg are currently measuring the air quality on their route to school. Until November 24, they will travel to school with special sensors on their backpack or bicycle. The result comes live on an interactive dashboard.
The students of De Krekel school in Sint-Amandsberg are not ready for their test. For example, they participated in air quality measurements during the Curieuzeneuzen project. Now they are moving up a gear: from November 14 to 24, fifty fifth-year students will measure the air quality themselves on their way to school.
The students measure the amount of particulate matter with special sensors on their backpack or bicycle. The result can be seen on an interactive dashboard, where streets turn green, orange or red, depending on the air quality. This way, all students gain insight into the healthiest route to school.
We want to increase awareness among students through this unique measurement campaign and the associated educational project. By also working with an interactive dashboard, we also hope for a broader behavioral change and possibly a local improvement in air quality.
In a separate class activity, students also go to places in the immediate school environment to measure particulate matter. This gives them more insight into which factors play a role in the air quality in their school environment.
European project
De Krekel’s experiments are part of the European Horizon 2020 project CompAIR, in which Digital Flanders and the Flemish Environment Agency investigate air quality using citizen science. The City of Ghent is participating in the pilot project.
2023-11-16 12:52:27
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