ACTRIS-UBB

Development of ACTRIS-UBB infrastructure with the aim of contributing to pan-European research on atmospheric composition and climate change

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

• Increasing Romania’s participation in European environmental research infrastructures and other continental and global programs by improving the quality and quantity of data sets collected locally in Cluj-Napoca.
• Increasing Romania’s participation in ESA programs by participating in Calibration and Validation Activities.
• Increasing the level of expertise and involvement in frontier science: Cloud microphysics, aerosol cloud precipitation interactions, radiative forcing, climate risk assessment. The effects of air pollution on biodiversity, oxidative capacity of particles (PM10, PM2.5 and PM1) to generate reactive oxygen species and associated health risks, investigation of factors that determine indoor air quality, determining the route of pollutants through the environment, etc.
• Creating new products and services: issuing extreme air pollution warnings to decision-makers; ensuring transnational access to the ACTRIS-UBB research infrastructure and, through it, to high-performance research structures on the European road map and in other national and international networks; offering organizational and logistical support for various types of campaigns: intercomparison, testing, research, calibration, validation; generating and disseminating high quality environmental data; assessing air quality; performing laboratory analyses in the following fields: environment, agriculture, forestry; Developing best-practice guides for air quality assessment;  assistance in carrying out the technology transfer (technologies and products tested within the ACTRIS-UBB infrastructure) to operational services and SMEs with concerns in optoelectronics and environmental instrumentation; assistance for the establishment of spin-offs and the development of start-ups, based on the results transferred from ACTRIS-UBB.
• Creating new employment opportunities and strengthening existing human resources within the Babeș-Bolyai University: the development of the research infrastructure proposed by ACTRIS-UBB implies research staff augmentation. Also, it creates opportunities for continuous skills development.
• Strengthening the Babeș-Bolyai University’s position in Central and South-Eastern Europe, resulting in better regional cooperation and a better position to apply to and participate in national and HORIZON Europe projects. 

FINANCING PROGRAM

The project is co-financed by the Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014-2020, Funding Priority A1 – Research, development and innovation supporting economic competitiveness and the development of businesses, Action 1.1.1: Large R&D infrastructures (A: investments for R&D departments of enterprises & B: Projects for innovative clusters).

The project was ranked first in the competition, its total value being 22,264,758.58 lei, of which the non-reimbursable financial assistance is 22,149,238.01 lei.

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