| Title |
HORIZON NextAIRE ‒ Next Generation AI Researchers for Air Quality Excellence |
| Project summary |
NextAIRE aims to enhance interoperability, expand expertise, and ensure a more balanced geographical and cross-sectoral circulation of European R&I talents in air quality monitoring, bringing together environmental scientists, hardware and IoT experts, and machine learning engineers. The project adopts a strong cross-sectoral and cross-country approach with a particular focus on Widening countries. Through planned secondments and collaborative activities such as buddy systems, workshops, and hackathons, NextAIRE supports advances in sensor development and environment-related public health research. The project involves a highly interdisciplinary consortium of 16 partners, including numerous SME hardware producers. At its scientific core, NextAIRE focuses on low-cost air quality sensors and artificial intelligence, using these areas to provide hands-on training that strengthens research, entrepreneurial, and transferable skills. Project outcomes, including a competency framework, AI and mathematical models, and an e-learning platform, aim to improve research excellence and long-term employability of R&I talents across academic and non-academic sectors. |
| Project objective |
The project aims to strengthen European research and innovation human potential in air quality monitoring through cross-sectoral and international mobility as well as practical training. By integrating low-cost sensor technologies and artificial intelligence, the project aims to improve research excellence and long-term employability, especially in the enlargement countries
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| Key words |
air quality, low-cost sensors, artificial intelligence, machine learning |
| Contact person from DHMZ |
Darijo Brzoja, e-mail: darijo.brzoja@dhz.hr |
| Duration |
1/9/2025 – 31/8/2028 |
| Financing |
The total value of the project is €2,998,872.50, of which the DHMZ share is €210,237.50 and is fully (100%) financed by the European Union (under the HORIZON Programme). |
| Project coordinator |
LIFE CityTRAQ is implemented on behalf of the European Commission within the HORIZON Programme led by the Institute for Anthropological Research (INANTRO). |
