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Photocatalysis National Congress 2024

The congress is the meeting point for professionals, companies and entities related with this technology. It takes place on 25th to 26th of November in Madrid. One of the magistral conference would be in charge of Javier Rey, entitled "Indoors quality of air". In addition, Esther Moreno, Elena Cerro and Mar Barbero participate on it.

Science Week

In Friday, 8th October 2024, we celebrated the Science Week. We would like to give the thanks to all the families that showed interest and participated in the activity.

How to achieve bioclimatic and sustainable schools?

On 17th of October of 2024, Mar Barbero gave a conference invited by FAMPA Alhambra with the colaboration of CODAPA and Junta de Andalucía, in which the importance of the school buildings as well as their surrounding was aborded together with the air quality and the vulnerability of children. Conference is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fstHQWpLeZU

Presentation of results to Management Teams of the participating schools

Along October 2024, the preliminary results of the study will be presented to the Educational Community of the schools participating in the project. Thanks to the families for participating!

Participation in FICAL

Lime4Health participated in FICAL (Iberian Lime Forum) with a conference entitled "La pintura de cal en el patrimonio construido" from 26th till 27th of September of 2024 in Santiago de Compostela, presented by Mar Barbero. Further information in: https://fical.org/vii-forum-iberico-de-la-cal-2

Participation in BIAUS

Lime4Health participated in BIAUS (Bienal of Research in Architecture) with a poster in the research line " 7: environmental conditioning for the wellness and energy efficiency". In this case, Elena Cuerda from the Universidad de Alcalá, went in representation of the team. The congress was celebrated between 17th and 20th of September 2024 at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura from University of Seville, which 263 researches and mor than 1000 researchers and 36 universities worldwide participated. Further information in: https://etsa.us.es/investigacion/BIAUS

Presentation of the project in the seminar "Trends in construction" CIFP Someso

Lime4Health was presented in the seminar "Trends in construction" organized by the CIFP Someso, La Coruña, and celebrated from 9th till 13th of September of 2024, by Mar Barbero. Further information in: https://cifpsomeso.edu.es/2024/09/25/excelencia1-2-2-2-2-2/

Presentation of the project in the course "Introduction to Aeropalynology"

Lime4Health was presented in the course "Introduction to Aeropalynology" organized by the Institute of Earth Systems celebrated in 5th of September of 2024 in the University of Malta by Estefanía Sánchez. Further information in: https://www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/news/2024/09/air-short-course-aeropalynology

Participation in "MedPaynoS 2024"

Lime4Health participated, from 17th to 19th of July of 2024 in the MedPaynos 2024 (Mediterranean Palynology Symposium 2024) celebrated in Salamanca, with a communication entitled "Evaluating the effectiveness of photocatalytic paints in reducing indoor airborne pollen concentrations in schools: LIME4HEALTH project" presented by Estefanía Sánchez and Sheila Galindo Ortiz. Further information in: https://medpalynos2024.org/

Presentation of results to Management Teams of the participating schools

Along June and July of 2024, some preliminary results of the study were presented to the Management Teams of the schools participated in the project. Thanks to the schools for participating!

Participation in "I Congress in Education towards sustainability"

Lime4Health participated, from 31st of May till 1th June of 2024, in the discussion panel "Educative centers in sustainable cities" with a communication entitled "what factors defined a sustainable educative center in a sustainable environment?" by Mar Barbero. Further information in: https://dgbilinguismoycalidad.educa.madrid.org/ces/index.php

Participation in "Healthy city and near neighbourhood" CEIP Tomás Bretón

Lime4Health has participated in the analysis and proposals developed by the professors F.Lamíquiz and E.Higueras, to implement a plan for healthy city and near neighbourhood around the Tomás Bretón primary school. Congratulations!

REDENARQUI – Project presentation

In light of the initial coordination meeting for the work of the REDENARQUI network (Network on Energy Performance of Ibero-American Architecture), held in the city of Bogotá, our colleague Javier Neila travelled there as a participant. At the meeting, he [...]

Application of paints begin!

Taking advantage of the holiday period, on Tuesday 26th of December, we had started the application of photocatalytic paints at schools. We will be working on it for the next two weeks.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2024!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2024! 🎄 The team of Lime4Health project wish you happy holidays and a year 2024 full of health and good news in terms of pollutants reduction.

Monitoring campaigns begins!

With the onset of the cold snap in Madrid on 6 February, we started the monitoring campaign in the Primary Education Centres that are part of the project. For two-week period, we will visit one centre per day to carry […]

Seminar 1-2023. OSMAN Guidelines presentation on healthy housing.

During the online conferences organised by OSMAN (Observatorio de Salud y Medio Ambiente de Andalucía), the “II Online presentation of the OSMAN healthy housing guidelines” was included. Among the actions carried out by the OSMAN is the preparation of these […]

Participation at Seminar “Schools as tools for decarbonization of cities” CONAMA2022

Con motivo del Congreso Nacional de Medio Ambiente 2022 que se ha celebrado del 21 al 24 de noviembre, la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, presentó el Seminario UPM, Las escuelas como herramientas para la carbonización de las ciudades. Como parte […]

Lime4Health will be at CONAMA2022

On the occasion of the National Environment Congress (CONAMA) 2022 from 21 to 24 November, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid will organize the UPM Seminar: “Schools as tools for the de-carbonisation of cities”. As part of this seminar, Lime4Health project […]