Description: More than six billion tons of gas pollutants are released to Earth’s atmosphere due to fossil fuels combustion and other industrial processes. Therefore, pollution represents one of the greatest issues of today’s world. Scientists are warning the public that, if the environment were to be continuously polluted in the same manner as during the past decades, we are about to face a disaster of immense proportions. Global warming is a serious issue, but, unfortunately, not the only one. Ocean acidification is continuously increasing as a consequence of the atmosphere’s carbon-dioxide reacting with water. The fresh water availability significantly influences the quality of life and human health. If the soil is polluted by toxic chemicals, garbage or microorganisms – disease carriers, rain and melted snow bring that very same pollution to rivers, lakes and oceans, thus endangering water ecosystems. One of the utmost needs is to provide systematic environment monitoring in all three medium: soil, water and air. Furthermore, efficient sensors able to detect changes caused by the pollutant presence, a system interconnecting those sensors by enabling wireless information transfer among them are also needed. The development and design of such devices and systems represent the main topic and the task of the SENSEIVER project, which actually represents the platform for employment of both, early stage researchers (ESRs) and experienced researchers (ERs), their training and education in leading institutions of the six European countries.

Contact person: Prof. dr Goran Stojanović
Period of realization: 2011 – 2015
ID: 289481 FP7-PEOPLE