UCC research team awarded €3.2m to develop cost-effective way of measuring air-pollution

The team hopes their research can overcome some of the challenges associated with measuring air pollution, a lead factor in the cause of over 400,000 premature deaths across the European Union each year

The team, which is drawn from industry and academia and coordinated by UCC, says they plan to design and build low-cost instruments that will measure the presence of harmful atmospheric ‘radicals’ in the air we breathe. File Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

A University College Cork-led research project has received €3.2m in European funding to develop a more cost-effective way to measure air pollution.

The team, led by UCC Professor Justin Holmes, have been awarded €3.2m in funding for the ‘RADICAL’ Project from the European Union’s research and innovation programme.