The Air We Share
About this Event
We all have a right to breathe healthy air indoors – where we spend most our lives. Yet growing evidence from the IDEAL Cluster and across Europe shows that air quality can vary significantly from one indoor space to another. In some cases, the poorest air is found where our most vulnerable populations spend their time: children in schools or older persons in care homes.
Evidence increasingly links indoor pollutants to immediate health effects, reduced performance and elevated long term health risks. To make matters worse, in too many schools, children are exposed to mixtures of particulate matter, mould, allergens and chemical emissions that undermine health, wellbeing and learning. More concerning still, significant knowledge gaps remain, and the full scale of long term health impacts is still unknown. Yet, while outdoor air pollution is widely recognised as Europe’s largest environmental health threat, indoor air quality has received far less policy attention, despite often higher exposure levels and significant health and socioeconomic impacts.
Now, that momentum is building. Sparked in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, advances in sensors, smart ventilation, building renovation and digital tools – together with new European legislation and policy initiatives – create a timely opportunity to place indoor air quality firmly within Europe’s Zero Pollution ambition. Simply put, zero pollution cannot be achieved without addressing indoor sources. At the same time, improving indoor air quality presents clear opportunities for innovation, business development, and the design of smarter, healthier and more sustainable buildings.
The IDEAL Cluster, bringing together seven Horizon Europe research and innovation projects, over 120 organisations, and more than 50 million in investment, will convene policymakers, researchers, industry leaders and public authorities to present:
- Key scientific findings
- Emerging evidence on health and socio-economic impacts
- Innovative technologies and solutions
- Policy recommendations and standards
- A shared roadmap towards clean indoor air across Europe and beyond
Join us in Brussels for the IDEAL Cluster Summit as we translate science into concrete action and chart the path to healthier indoor environments for all.
Agenda
🕑: 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Registration
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:05 AM
Welcome and Opening
Host: Francesco Mureddu
🕑: 09:05 AM - 09:25 AM
Keynote Speeches
Host: Director Maria Pilar Aguar Fernández
🕑: 09:25 AM - 09:55 AM
The Complexity of Indoor Air Quality – A joint venture through the IDEAL Clust
Host: Session Moderator: Pernilla Bohlin Nizzetto
Info: • EDIAQI – Mario Lovric
• InChildHealth – Heidi Salonen
• INQUIRE – Maja Nipen
• K-HEALTHinAIR – José Fermoso
• LEARN – Ernesto Alfaro-Moreno
• SynAir-G – Nikos Papadopoulos
• TwinAIR – Stylianos Karatzas
🕑: 09:55 AM - 10:55 AM
Improving Indoor Air Quality in Europe – A Political Imperative
Host: Session Moderator: Panagiotis Chaslaridis
🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Toxicological, NAMs and Health-related aspects of IAQ
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Emerging indoor contaminants - a mash-up of biology, physics and chemistry
Host: Session Moderator: Mario Lovric
Info: • Welcome & introduction
• New chemistry indoors - Lisa Melymuk
• Bioaerosols - Rob Fergusson
• Microbiome and fungal -
• Microplastics and black carbon indoors
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
New Data and tools for Europe
Host: Session Moderator: Iseult Lynch
Info: Introduction to the data, from PARC, JRC etc perspective- Iseault – TBC
• Sensor data for better IAQ - Vasileios Salamalikis
• NTS-data to understand the unknown challenges indoors – Pawel Rostkowski
• Monitoring tools – Maria Figols
• Toxicological and microbiome data - Bojana Žegura, Slovenian National Institute of biology (NIB)
• Compliance with GDPR – challenges with new data and indoor environments – Sylvie Remy, VITO
• Representative from IPCHEM – Stelios
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Transforming Science into Societal Gains - Guidance, Awareness Raising an Stan
Host: Session Moderator: Christian Goroncy, DIN
Info: • How can IDEAL Cluster Results Impact Europe? - Christian Goroncy, DIN
• How can project findings impact standards? - Christian Goroncy, DIN
• How IDEAL Cluster enhance Air and Life Quality of people? - Kristina Siemens, NILU
• Taking Matters into Your Own Hands - Awareness Raising Materials as Key Tool – Clara Pogner, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
• Secretary of the CEN/TC 156/WG25 on Indoor Air Quality TBC -
• Discussion & Audience Interaction
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Where do we go from here? The Legacy of the IDEAL Cluster
Info: • Patricia Urban Lopez, Scientific Officer Joint Research Centre (tbc)
• Lula Timmermans, Lead technical expert with the Belgian Federal Public Service Health
• Sean Kelly, Interim Director General Nanotechnology Industries Association
• Francesco Scuderi, Secretary-General of Eurovent
• Sotirios Papathanasiou, Founder of GO AQS
🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Networking / IDEAL Cluster Meet and Greet in the Foyer
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