Advances and experiments in participatory sensing. Making Sense EU (H2020) seeks to empower citizens through personal digital manufacturing applied to the design of environmental sensors.

Open source technology to generate participatory processes of people in the cities. Connecting data, people and knowledge, the objective of the platform is to serve as a node for building productive and open indicators, and distributed tools, and thereafter the collective construction of the city for its own inhabitants.

Find out more at https://smartcitizen.me/

HabitatMap is a non-profit environmental health justice organization, building online mapping and a social networking platform to support grassroots environmental organizing. The aim is to maximize the impact of community voices strengthen ties between organizations and activists working to build greener, greater cities.

Find out more at http://habitatmap.org

AirVisual provides home air quality monitors revealing invisible threats indoors and out. As a crowd-sourced social enterprise, AirVisual is building an online community seeking to grow awareness worldwide by providing community members no-nonsense information and access to historical, real-time and forecast air quality data.

Find out more at https://airvisual.com

CAPTOR is a project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme and started in January 2016. It will:

• Engage a network of local communities for monitoring tropospheric ozone pollution.
• Install a network of low-cost sensors to measure tropospheric ozone pollution, designed and maintained by European citizens in these local communities.
• Provide high quality and reliable data about tropospheric ozone poulltion from the low-cost sensor network.
• To engage the local communities in a collaborative learning process about air pollution, supporting a bottom-up process of defining and designing measures for action.
• To empower citizens and engage them in promoting behavioural changes and active participation in decision making to drive solutions.

Find out more at http://captor-project.eu

CITI-SENSE will develop “citizens’ observatories” to empower citizens to contribute to and participate in environmental governance, to enable them to support and influence community and societal priorities and associated decision making.

CITI-SENSE will develop, test, demonstrate and validate  a community-based environmental monitoring and information system using innovative and novel Earth Observation applications.

Find out more at http://www.citi-sense.eu/Default.aspx