Part of the CIRCULATE project team, awarded a grant from the Barcelona City Council and “La Caixa” Foundation. From left to right: Mònica Ubalde (ISGlobal), Mercè Garí (IDAEA), Celia Santos (ISGlobal), and Nicola Montemurro (IDAEA). | Mercè Garí
The Barcelona City Council and “La Caixa” Foundation have today presented the fourteen research and innovation projects that will receive grants from the 2023 call. The fourteen subsidized projects provide innovative solutions to urban challenges related to community health, sustainability, and climate change. They will share the €2 million allocated to this call.
The project CIRCULATE: Human exposure to tire rubber, led by IDAEA researchers Mercè Garí and Nicola Montemurro, is one of the projects awarded in this call. CIRCULATE aims to conduct a first participatory and structured assessment through citizen science and social innovation on the environmental concentrations of tire rubber additives and human exposure in an urban environment. Led by IDAEA, the project is in collaboration with the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), LICHEN Social Innovation, the Catalan Water Agency (ACA), and the Barcelona Public Health Agency (ASPB).
This call marks the fourth edition of these grants, resulting from successive collaboration agreements signed between both institutions, dating back to 2019. The objective is to increase public-private collaboration in research projects with an impact on the city. The award ceremony took place at the Hall of Chronicles and was attended by the Deputy Mayor for Economy, Finance, Economic Promotion, and Tourism, Jordi Valls, and the Director of the Area of Relations with Research Institutions and Health of the “La Caixa” Foundation, Ignasi López.
The projects that will receive these grants are the ones that have received the highest scores among the 51 projects submitted. They focus on one of the two themes proposed for this call: Community Health (the case of the CIRCULATE project) or Sustainability and Climate Change.
The 14 awarded projects involve a total of 34 entities, addressing one of the goals of the call, which was to foster synergies among different research centers and teams. Seven of the projects are led by a university and seven by a research center.
The principal investigators from the 14 projects awarded together with the representative of the “La Caixa” Foundation and several representatives from the Barcelona City Council. | “La Caixa” Foundation
Part of the CIRCULATE project team, awarded a grant from the Barcelona City Council and “La Caixa” Foundation. From left to right: Mònica Ubalde (ISGlobal), Mercè Garí (IDAEA), Celia Santos (ISGlobal), and Nicola Montemurro (IDAEA). | Mercè Garí
The Barcelona City Council and “La Caixa” Foundation have today presented the fourteen research and innovation projects that will receive grants from the 2023 call. The fourteen subsidized projects provide innovative solutions to urban challenges related to community health, sustainability, and climate change. They will share the €2 million allocated to this call.
The project CIRCULATE: Human exposure to tire rubber, led by IDAEA researchers Mercè Garí and Nicola Montemurro, is one of the projects awarded in this call. CIRCULATE aims to conduct a first participatory and structured assessment through citizen science and social innovation on the environmental concentrations of tire rubber additives and human exposure in an urban environment. Led by IDAEA, the project is in collaboration with the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), LICHEN Social Innovation, the Catalan Water Agency (ACA), and the Barcelona Public Health Agency (ASPB).
This call marks the fourth edition of these grants, resulting from successive collaboration agreements signed between both institutions, dating back to 2019. The objective is to increase public-private collaboration in research projects with an impact on the city. The award ceremony took place at the Hall of Chronicles and was attended by the Deputy Mayor for Economy, Finance, Economic Promotion, and Tourism, Jordi Valls, and the Director of the Area of Relations with Research Institutions and Health of the “La Caixa” Foundation, Ignasi López.
The projects that will receive these grants are the ones that have received the highest scores among the 51 projects submitted. They focus on one of the two themes proposed for this call: Community Health (the case of the CIRCULATE project) or Sustainability and Climate Change.
The 14 awarded projects involve a total of 34 entities, addressing one of the goals of the call, which was to foster synergies among different research centers and teams. Seven of the projects are led by a university and seven by a research center.
The principal investigators from the 14 projects awarded together with the representative of the “La Caixa” Foundation and several representatives from the Barcelona City Council. | “La Caixa” Foundation
