They are called GIOCONDA and MAPEC and are neighbors. Not only they share the fact they are LIFE projects and are based in Pisa, but also an important goal: to relate the health of younger citizens and environmental pollution. MAPEC (Monitoring the Effects of Atmospheric Pollution on Children in Support of Public Health Policies) does it by studying the association between the concentration of some air pollutants and some early-biological markers in a sample of children 6-8 years of age.
GIOCONDA does it starting from the perceptions that young people (11-16 years) have of environmental risk in relation to their health and their willingness to commit themselves to improve this relationship, then comparing results with those of air and noise environmental monitoring, and thus building a useful governance tool to better guide local policies.
Last September, GIOCONDA participated in the first workshop of MAPEC and presented its work program. It is the first step to building a network of LIFE projects active on the territory, making better use of their scientific potential at national and international level and optimizing the use of European fund