The Sofia Pilot focuses on the optimisation of food waste collection around the city to reduce odour nuisance, and it has been a busy few months there with plenty of D-NOSES and citizen science activities crossing over into the new decade. Reaching out to the stakeholders is an important part of any sustainable solution, and a core part of the quadruple helix based approach that brings together policy makers, odour experts, researchers and citizens. […]
Join MfC to learn more about how the D-NOSES project can help citizens to tackle odour and air pollution issues around the Royal Docks in London. […]
Last week MIO-ECSDE co-organized the 2nd Meeting of the Mediterranean Committee on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Heraklio, Crete. The occasion provided an excellent opportunity to inform the participants about D-NOSES. MIO-ECSDE set up a station over the 2 days to introduce the project, demonstrate the OdourCollect app, and run co-creation exercises for the Odour Observatory. […]
Doing It Together Science (DITOs) organized more than 500 innovative workshops, exhibitions, and activities across Europe focusing on the active involvement of citizens in Citizen Science. In their final event, they brought together other citizen science projects to present, exchange and debate their ideas for Citizen Science. Rosa Arias, from Ibercivis and D-NOSES project coordinator, was invited to take part in the panel, and ECSA provided a stand for the Citizen Science Fair to demonstrate the work and progress of the D-NOSES project. […]
Join our partners Ibercivis and Ideas For Change at the Museu Blau in Barcelona to learn about the odours impacting the community around the Forum area and how you can help by using the OdourCollect app to map and report odours you come across in your daily life. Download the flyer to learn more and […]
IFAT Eurasia, the leading trade fair for environmental technologies took place at the Istanbul Expo Center on March 28-30, 2019. D-NOSES was there to reach a wider audience of young environmental engineers and facility managers that routinely face odour complaints and issues. The team represented the project at the ISWA stand, and then did a special presentation on Odour Management and the advantages of D-NOSES approach for all stakeholders. […]
As part of the Science Biennal, D-NOSES partners Ibercivis and Ideas for Change (IFC) held an odour training and awareness workshop last Sunday 10th of February 2019 in the Fòrum area of Barcelona. The Fòrum area has long been a focal point of bad smells; which D-NOSES proposes to resolve using citizen science to measure and validate the real impact on residents. Visitors and their children were excited to learn about the environmental odours affecting their neighbourhoods and what could be done about them. […]
The 6th International Conference on Environmental Odour Monitoring & Control NOSE was held on September 9-12, 2018 in Milan, Italy. NOSE2018 is organized by AIDIC, The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering. D-NOSES was represented at the event by Rosa Arias with a plenary lecture, and the Scientific Manager of the DNOSE project, Laura Capelli, in collaboration […]
The D-NOSES took advantage of the Ecomondo 2018 environmental exhibition to educate visitors about odours at the ISWA booth. A team of odour researchers from Politecnico Milano, led by Selena Sironi, brought a set of samples that could be used both to educate and test the visitors ability to determine odours according to the new rating system that is proposed for the OdourCollect application. […]
Rosa Arias, D-NOSES Project Coordinator, will be participating as a Scientific Advisor in the “Science in the Parliament” #CienciaenelParlamento programme at the Spanish Parliament in Madrid on the 6th and 7th November. #CienciaenelParlamento is an independent citizen initiative that aims to make science and scientific knowledge one of the sources of information in the formulation of political […]