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According to Serbian Environmental Agency (SEPA), more than 30% of citizens of Serbia were exposed to air that is considered not healthy in 2014. An important element in the work to reduce atmospheric pollution is involvement of the citizens, through awareness raising and other means such as adherence to pollution reduction measures.

The aim of our work is to raise awareness of pollution gradients and levels by developing a user-friendly citizen’s observatory for air quality. This would allow the general public to generate and access information about air quality that is directly relevant to them–near their homes or work places. Citizen observatory is a quickly developing concept: it is a combination of citizen science approaches with an ICT infrastructure, to objectively monitor or subjectively assess the state of the environment (air quality), and to provide this information in a manner that can be useful to both individual citizens, their groups or the authorities.