CityZen News

Last updated: May 25, 2009

May 25, 2009: A presentation of the CityZen project is invited for the 13th Session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, 5 June 2009, Bonn, Germany. Leading European research organisations will present innovative approaches developed within the EU RTD Framework programme to explore synergies and trade-offs between policies and strategies to protect the quality of air we breathe and to prevent climate change.

May 21, 2009: CityZen participates in the IGAC report on megacities. Several CityZen scientists are involved as contributing authors.

May 12, 2009: COST action ES0602 chemical weather forecasting models are planning to collaborate with MEGAPOLI on Paris campaign in June 2009 and January 2010. CityZen partners with chemical weather forecasting capabilities are welcome to do so to, with COST action ES0602 as a platform for MEGAPOLI/CityZen collaboration.

April 30, 2009: The 1st annual meeting for the CityZen project will take place in Laxenburg (near Vienna) on September 28-29, 2009.

April 15, 2009: (answer to question from the consortium) The CityZen logo can be downloaded in different sizes here.

April 10, 2009: CityZen was well represented at the Air Quality Conference in Istanbul, some presentations are uploaded to the 'Publications' page.

March 18, 2009: CityZen asks for volunteers among its partners to contribute to the IGAC report on megacities, chapter 7 (ongoing research on megacities in Europe). Contact Michael Gauss or Mark Lawrence.

March 17, 2009: CityZen has got a new scientific officer at EC: José Jimenez Mingo.

March 9, 2009: Michael Gauss will present CityZen during plenary session at the Air Quality Conference in Istanbul on 26 March.

March 9, 2009: First (informal) joint meeting between MEGAPOLI and CityZen will take place in Vienna during the EGU assembly, http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/oral_programme/1704

February 22, 2009: Michael Gauss will participate in the MEGAPOLI modelling meeting in Istanbul on March 23, 2009.

January 27, 2009: Presentations from the Paris meeting are available here for CityZen partners.

January 14, 2009: The first annual meeting will take place on September 28/29, 2009. The meeting venue has not been decided yet.

January 6, 2009: Information about modellers' meeting in Paris, January 21/22, 2009.

December 2, 2008: met.no has received first funding from EC. Transfer from met.no to partners completed.