A new collaboration between the ENHANCE and MI-TRAP projects is set to unlock synergies in how environmental data is generated, integrated, and used to support decision-making.
While MI-TRAP advances the monitoring and analysis of transport-related air pollution in urban environments, ENHANCE brings a complementary dimension through its One Health approach to coastal management, integrating environmental, human, and ecosystem health perspectives.
Connecting air quality monitoring with integrated environmental intelligence
MI-TRAP develops innovative monitoring instrumentation and analytical tools to track pollutants, assess transport emissions, and evaluate their impact on air quality and health.
ENHANCE builds on this type of data by delivering a data fusion infrastructure capable of integrating multiple data streams — including Copernicus Marine data, EGNSS services, and citizen science inputs — into a unified framework for environmental intelligence.
Through this synergy, insights from MI-TRAP’s urban air quality monitoring can be better contextualised within broader environmental systems, including coastal and climate-related pressures.
Key areas of collaboration
The collaboration focuses on concrete complementarities between the two projects:
- Citizen science and data co-creation
MI-TRAP actively engages citizens in air quality monitoring and awareness.
ENHANCE extends this by integrating citizen-generated data into operational services, ensuring it contributes directly to environmental assessments and decision-support tools. - Advanced data integration and interoperability
MI-TRAP produces high-resolution, real-time data on transport emissions.
ENHANCE contributes a robust data collection and fusion architecture, designed to enable real-time data communication and interoperability across heterogeneous sources, including satellite and in-situ observations. - From environmental data to decision-support services
MI-TRAP supports the evaluation of mitigation measures and regulatory effectiveness.
ENHANCE goes a step further by developing three dedicated services/products to analyse environmental pressures (urban, agricultural, climate extremes) and their impacts under a One Health framework, directly supporting policymakers and stakeholders. - Co-creation and Living Labs
Both projects adopt participatory approaches.
ENHANCE operationalises this through structured stakeholder engagement and co-creation processes, ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and validated in real-world coastal case studies.
Towards integrated, cross-domain environmental solutions
This collaboration highlights the importance of connecting environmental domains that are often addressed separately.
By linking urban air quality monitoring (MI-TRAP) with integrated coastal and environmental intelligence systems (ENHANCE), the two projects contribute to a more holistic understanding of environmental pressures and their impacts on ecosystems and human health.
Ultimately, this joint effort supports the transition towards more connected, data-driven, and participatory environmental governance in Europe, in line with the ambitions of the EU Green Deal and the Zero Pollution Action Plan.
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