Partners
The UrbanAIR consortium brings together 19 partners from 11 countries, each carefully selected to represent the full value chain for developing and implementing innovative solutions in urban air quality management and climate resilience.
This collaboration fosters strong connections across the EU and beyond, enabling the creation of technological synergies to tackle shared challenges in environmental sustainability and urban adaptation to climate change.
With expertise in urban planning, environmental monitoring, digital technologies, artificial intelligence and research and innovation, the UrbanAIR partners are at the forefront of their respective fields. Their collective contributions ensure a multidisciplinary approach to achieving the project’s ambitious goals and advancing urban resilience.
Consortium Members
UrbanAIR’s mission is to revolutionise urban planning by equipping cities with the tools and insights needed to create sustainable, healthier, and climate-resilient environments. Through collaboration and innovation, UrbanAIR seeks to foster long-term solutions that benefit both people and the planet.
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Netherlands
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Norway
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Germany
Belgium
VITO (Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek N.V.) is a leading European research and technology organization in the field of sustainabilityand applied research. Based in Belgium, VITO focuses on cleantech, sustainable development, climate resilience, urban planning, and technological innovation to support both public and private sectors in achieving a sustainable future.
Role in the project
VITO plays a key role as a research performer and technology developer in the project. It contributes expertise in urban climate modeling (high-resolution simulations of urban heat and air quality), climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, advanced computational methods and digital twins for urban planning, and stakeholder engagement and policy recommendations
Key People
Nele Veldeman - Project managerDirk Lauwaet - Senior researcher - heat stress
Jorge Sousa - Senior researcher - air quality
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Netherlands
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Germany
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United Kingdom
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France
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain.It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.
The Department of Earth Sciences of BSC-CNS, BSC-ES henceforth (bsc.es/earth-sciences) is one of the most active groups in air quality and atmospheric composition modeling, climate prediction and climate services in Europe. It is structured into five distinct but interacting research groups: Atmospheric Composition, Climate Prediction, Global Health Resilience, Computational Earth Sciences, and Earth System Services. In the latter group, important work is being done to co-produce climate and environmental services by integrating different knowledge sources to bridge the gap between science and society. This involves exploring societal needs, exchanging knowledge and developing and evaluating new knowledge, together with stakeholders to achieve user-cen
Role in the project
Tailoring UrbanAir service design to user needs and evaluating the UrbanAIR implemented services and their co-production processesOverseeing the development and evaluation of data-fusion and super-resolution methods for air quality and urban heat.
Key People
Jan Mateu Armengol - Principal investigatorSam Pickard - Senior researcher
Cristina Carnerero - Researcher
Alvaro Criado Romero - Researcher
Florence Gignac - Researcher
Arianna Cristiani - Project manager
Spain
Cyprus
Future Needs Management Consulting Ltd is an interdisciplinary socio-technical research and technology development SME. The staff of Future Needs has a long record of successful project management and coordination as well as design and development of digital services, policy evaluation, business development and science communication. Future Needs specialises in shaping the development of technology to best suit the needs of practitioners/end-users. As a team, we bring the latest technology trends and aspects of creativity, (youth) entrepreneurship and start-up mentality to projects we are involved in. We help our clients elicit user requirements for the development of new products and services, we develop R&D roadmaps aiming at product and service commercialisation, and we ensure security standards compliance for services and products we work on before they hit the market. We help our clients from the public and not-for-profit sectors to carry out Impact Assessments and policy evaluation studies, while ensuring secure, ethical and privacy-considerate processes and following the “better regulation guidelines” of the European Commission. Finally, we leverage our relationship with a variety of stakeholders ranging from technical specialists and key industry players to policy-makers and citizen groups when offering dissemination and community-building services. Information technology & telecommunications, education, migration, healthcare, transport, regional development, culture and finance.
Role in the project
Dissemination, Communication & Exploitation Leader
Key PeopleVasilis Bouronikos - Dissemination, Communication & Exploitation Manager
Lee Ingleton - Project Manager
Lina Giannivasili - Project Management & Exploitation
Eva Palaiologk - User Experience
Chariton Palaiologk - Project Management Quality Assurance
Anna Palaiologk - Finance & Legal
Georgia Nikolakopoulou - Dissemination Quality Assurance
Panos Chatzimathios - Graphic Design
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Germany
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Sweden
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Netherlands
France
CERFACS is a private center of research, development, transfer and training regarding simulation, modeling and high-performance computing based in Toulouse, France. CERFACS tackles major scientific and technical challenges in both academic and industrial research. The Cerfacs teams bring together physicists, applied mathematicians, numerical analysts and computer scientists, who design and develop innovative methods and software solutions to meet the needs of the space, climate, energy and environmental sectors. CERFACS works closely with its seven public and private shareholders: Airbus, Cnes, EDF, Météo-France, Onera, Safran, and TotalEnergies.
Role in the project
Combining large-eddy simulations and emulation strategies to provide high-resolution wind and temperature maps along with their uncertainties
Key People
Dr Mélanie Rochoux - Senior Research Scientist - Principal investigor - UQ/learning/micrometeorologyDr Thomas Jaravel - Senrior Research Scientist - LES/learning/micrometeorology
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France
STFC Scientific Computing is an international centre of excellence for advanced computing expertise and digital research infrastructure.
Our depth of expertise and knowledge across the full range of advanced computing technologies, combined with our global network of partners and internationally-renowned facilities, enable us to provide the vital skills and tools required for modern research and innovation. From high-performance computing infrastructure and data storage systems to computational science and data analytics, software development and AI for science, we influence and advance research across all scientific disciplines.
We are part of the UK’s National Laboratories, which provide large-scale, cutting-edge research and infrastructure facilities. For more than 50 years, we have provided a foundation for research partnerships, building pioneering research communities and collaborating on a global scale with researchers and forward-thinking businesses.
Role in the projectDefining the input parameters for the protype Digital Twin, identify/generate datasets required for the initial version and identify interfaces and the relevant (ideally open) standards for connections between DestinE, UrbanAIR to develop the prototype architecture of the Digital Twin to be integrated with Destination Earth's platform infrastructure.
Key PeopleDr Jens Jensen - Technical Project Lead and Scientist
Dr Stefano Rolfo - Scientist, Physics Digital Twin
Dr Charles Moulinec - Scientist
Marion Samler - Stakeholder and User engagement
Lyndsey Harding - Project Manager
United Kingdom
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Ireland
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Switzerland
