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BRAL co-signed the op-ed of NGO Les chercheurs d’air, supported by the Société Scientifique de Médecine Générale at the occasion of World Health Day (7/4/2024). Discover the measures we ask of the politicians-to-be-elected to improve Brussels’ air quality.

On the morning of 12 May, several campaign groups and organizations presented a cake to the European Commission as a playful action to "congratulate" it on the seventh anniversary of the launch proceedings against the Belgian government over poor air quality. The campaigners also compelled the European Commission to base new air quality standards on the latest scientific and medical knowledge.

Curious citizens measure their exposure to air pollution in Brussels. And they take action! 5 AirCasters explain in a video why they act to demand clean air.  

Research driven by the users of a city, inclusive and scalable. That’s what constitutes a smart living lab. BRAL combined the experiences and guidelines with its international partners in a publication and a film.

Nicola da Schio, member of BRAL and long-time partner in one of our first citizen science project on air quality, Smarterlabs, wrote an article for Habitatmap about his lessons learned.

7 September 2020 marks the first ever International Day for Clean Air and Blue Skies, organised by the United Nations (UN). Did you know that air pollution is one of the main avoidable causes of death and disease globally?

Citizen science. Collective knowledge empowers is the result of two years of measuring Brussels air quality by citizen groups together with BRAL and Cosmopolis VUB.

AirCasting sensors allow for real-time measurement of exposure to pollutants in the air, enabling Brussels residents to become researchers in a collective learning and action project. Together we answer the question "Where are we most at risk?"

BRAL, a Belgian NGO that aims at making Brussels more sustainable, demonstrated in front of the European Council’s.