Project: SMart URBan Solutions for air quality, disasters and city growth

Acronym SMURBS (Reference Number: AMD-689443-40)
Duration 01/09/2017 - 31/08/2020
Project Topic SMURBS ultimate goal is to promote the "smart‐city" approach, serving the need for a common approach to enhance environmental and societal resilience to specific urban pressures, through the integration of EO. In view of this goal, its objectives are divided into 3 categories: a) Overarching, which target to the alignment with and exploitation of existing programmes, strategies, data, networks, services and goals, b) Vertical, which define the targeted urban pressures (air pollution, disasters, urban growth) and their reciprocal relations with health, migration and other inequalities, and c) Horizontal, to assure interoperability of the produced data and services within ERA‐PLANET and other infrastructures.
Project Results
(after finalisation)
The overall ambition of SMURBS is to improve the quality of life of citizens and enhance cities' resilience with respect to air pollution and both natural and manmade disasters, through a chain of "smart urban solutions", that take into account existing rates of urban growth, long standing impacts like on health and newly rising pressures like migration. Existing smart‐cities or networks of them, do not fully exploit the capacities provided by EO, to deliver holistic approaches to modern environmental pressures. SMURBS main aspiration is to bring together a vast array of partners of a high degree of expertise in EO, pooling national resources, facilities and coordinating national/regional research programmes, cultivating exchange of know‐how and enforcing interdisciplinary action to overcome the currently fragmented status of EO under the common banner of the smart‐city concept.
Network ERA-PLANET
Call ERA-PLANET Joint Transnational Call

Project partner

Number Name Role Country
1 NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS Coordinator Greece
2 IDRYMA IATROVIOLOGIKON EREUNON AKADEMIAS ATHINON Partner Greece
3 ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS Partner Greece
4 CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Partner Italy
5 CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE Partner France
6 CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION ECOLOGICA YAPLICACIONES FORESTALES Partner Spain
7 HELMHOLTZ‐ZENTRUM GEESTHACHT ZENTRUM FÜR MATERIAL‐ UND KÜSTENFORSCHUNG GMBH Partner Germany
8 ISTITUTO SUPERIORE PER LA PROTEZIONE E LA RICERCA AMBIENTALE Partner Italy
9 IVL SVENSKA MILJOEINSTITUTET AB Partner Sweden
10 INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN Partner Slovenia
11 MASARYKOVA UNIVERZITA Partner Czech Republic
12 NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS" Partner Greece
13 PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT Partner Switzerland
14 ROMANIAN SPACE AGENCY Partner Romania
15 SPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE AND THE NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY OF UKRAINE Partner Ukraine
16 STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET Partner Sweden
17 LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FUER TROPOSPHAERENFORSCHUNG e.V. Partner Germany
18 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO Partner Finland
19 UNIVERSITA DELLA CALABRIA Partner Italy