Children’s health. Project on air quality in Portugal wins EU funding
Portugal obtained a total of 18.3 million euros for funding in Research and Development (R&D) activities in the health area, in the initial competition of the Horizonte Europa programme. A partnership between the three proposals with Portuguese coordination, involving a school and the impact it has on the health and quality of children, involves a partnership between schools and the impact it has.
Entitled Development of innovative analyzes for monitoring indoor air quality and its impact on children’s health, the project involves a partnership of entities from Portugal, Belgium, Greece, Holland, Denmark, Switzerland and Spain, and has different leading research equipment. in all sectors, from environmental epidemiologists, toxicologists, air quality specialists, social systems biologists, engineers and specialists in areas of citizenship.
This, quality communication company is by FI Group, specialist in innovation management, aims to investigate the state of in schools and the impact it has on cognition in childhood.
In FI Group it is highlighted that several studies are important as the function of identifying harmful and noxious characteristics and can not create children cardiovascular, as well as increased mortality.
For the choice of several schools, chosen for different countries participating in the project, including Portugal.
In this sense, the research teams intend to evaluate the presence of biomarkers in the air and their impact on the development of children, thus intending to “explore new strategies to help improve air quality, promote the quality of life and improve the quality of life”. life of future generations”, reads the note.
Portugal gets a red card Road traffic regulations were one of the main sources of violations of air quality standards in the European Union, with Portugal being one of the countries to report excesses according to a report by the European Environment Agency (EEA), released on Wednesday-Wednesday. fair fair.
Member States are obliged to maintain the local configuration in local places where the European Union’s quality standards are public health and ecosystems, in order to protect public health and ecosystems. The plans, the AEA concluded that almost the two three-thirds cases are of quality that are all limited values of cities that were linked to the assessment of dioxide (NOTA) and proximity to roads.
Countries among them reported road traffic as a single source of cap capacity.
It is recalled that, in the past, the Commission decided to bring an action against Portugal in the Court of Justice due to the higher quality of the European Union for three continuous and persistent exceedances of the annual limit value of nitrogen, in nitrogen dioxide country: Lisbon North, Porto Litoral and Entre Douro e Minho.
In addition to road traffic, there is another source that gave rise to identification offences, in this case essentially emission.