Transcript SINPHONIE concept and objectives, E. Oliveira Fernandes, IDMEC

Concept and Objectives
SINPHONIE Project kick-off meeting
10-12 November, REC Conference Center,
Szentendre Hungary
Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes
IDMEC-FEUP
Context
• EC and some MS consistent preparatory work on IAQ R&D,
policy making, good practice promotion and management
tools preparation (testing, labeling, strategies,…)
• Action Plan 2004-2010
improvement of IAQ
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Action
12
concerns
the
• DG SANCO Strategy Plan on IAQ (2004-2010)
• EC Buildings Platform on “Safe, Healthy, Energy Efficient and
Sustainable Buildings in the EU” – DG SANCO, DG ENTR,
DG TREN, DG ENV coordinated by JRC-Ispra (EnVIE
approach)
• Parma Declaration on Environment and Health (May 2010)
Parma Declaration on Env. & Health
(May 2010)
Commitment to Act
(...)
Regional Priority Goal 3: Preventing disease through improved
outdoor and indoor air quality
i.
(...) We will continue and enhance our efforts to decrease the
incidence of acute and chronic respiratory diseases through
reduction of exposure to ultrafine particles and other
particulate matter, especially from industry, transport and
domestic combustion, as well as ground-level ozone, in line
with WHO’s air quality guidelines. (...)
Parma Declaration on Env. & Health
(May 2010)
Commitment to Act
(...)
Regional Priority Goal 3: Preventing disease through improved
outdoor and indoor air quality
ii.
We will develop appropriate cross-sectoral policies and
regulations capable of making a strategic difference in order
to reduce indoor pollution (...)
iii. We aim to provide each child with a healthy indoor
environment in child care facilities, kindergartens, schools
and public recreational settings, implementing WHO’s indoor
air quality guidelines (...)
Concept
• To value all previous information available on the field. This
will require an in depth “background” scrutiny made by
experienced scientists following somehow the ENVIE pragmatic
approach (WP2)
• To undertake a wide spectrum of field studies in response to the
specifications of the call (WP3, WP4), respectively in the
physical/chemical and biological aspects and on the health
effects.
• To cross analyse the results of the field studies while integrating
the WP2 contributions. A special attention will be paid to existing
database in order to consolidate the results of previous studies and
measurement campaigns (WP5).
Concept
• To undertake a comprehensive risk assessment of what is at the
core of the problematic of IAQ in schools today (WP6).
• To come up with a set of proposals regarding policies and
guidelines that shall reflect wise and well balanced measures that
will become the best expression of the current knowledge to be
transferred into practice (WP7).
• To assure the adequate dissemination through timely actions,
during the project. Since the very beginning involving the school
actors (students, teachers, personal and parents) in a pro-active
attitude toward a better IAQ in the irrespective schools and
hopefully, by extension, at home (WP8).
Flow Chart
Background Study
assessment
Monitoring &
Field studies and lab
analysis of E&H effects
Indoor
environments
Outdoor environments
(traffic and climate
changes
Health effects
related to indoor air
Database on IAQ
Health Risk assessment
Guidelines/recommendations for improving IAQ within schools
Schools are unique. Why?
• Children and teachers spend many hours inside schools
• School children represent a special susceptible group
• Indoor environments are generally worse than outdoors
• Evidence of health problems
Asthma is the leading chronic disease causing school absenteeism
- 14 million missed school days per year
- Children who aren’t in school can’t learn
- Interrupted or un-restful sleep
• Poor IAQ can reduce a person’s ability to perform specific
mental tasks requiring concentration, calculation or memory.
Main objectives
Main Purpose of the “call”
To fill the knowledge gap concerning IAQ in schools and
childcare settings.
Main Objectives
- To produce guidelines on remedial measures in school
environment to cover a wider array of situations in
Europe; and
- To disseminate these guidelines
stakeholders able to take actions.
to
relevant
Complex Research on Health, Environment-Transport
& Climate Change
Work Plan
WP
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
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4
5
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7
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12
13
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OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
WP 1
WP 2
WP 3.1
Checklists
WP 3.2
Protocols & list of equipment
Coordination & management
Background report
Inspection/charact. schools
Motivation document on the school selection Contacts w / schools
Courses
WP 3.3
Field studies
Analysis & technical reports
Field studies
Analysis & technical reports
Protocols & list of equipment
Courses
WP 3.4
WP 4.1/WP4.2
Analysis of transport (traffic) and climate change
Protocols
Questionnaires
Translations
Courses
Field studies
WP 5
WP 6
WP 7
WP 8
Specifi. database structure
Implementation database structure & functionalities
Health risk assessment
Risk management & development guidelines
Brochures
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
Preparation of field studies
Meetings
Analysis & technical reports
Source & epidemiol. analysis; Recommendation-design tool
Kick-off meeting
General meeting
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
Field studies
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
Reporting
Technical committee meeting
Final meeting
SEP
SINPHONIE Project kick-off meeting
10-12 November, REC Conference Center,
Szentendre Hungary
Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes
IDMEC-FEUP
[email protected]