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\"ClairCity-Logo-AW-02\"Since May 2016, the Science Communication Unit has been involved with a four year, Europe-wide research project ClairCity.<\/a> Laura Fogg Rogers<\/a>, Margarida Sardo <\/a>and Corra Boushel<\/a> are all staff members on the project, leading the communication, dissemination and evaluation. Working on large-scale international projects requires a slightly different set of sci-comm skills to local or national projects. ClairCity is specifically about air pollution in cities, so communication is also affected by the fact that the team are working on issues that affect the public and their health every day.<\/p>\n

\"Citizen<\/p>\n

ClairCity is an innovative air quality project involving citizens and local authorities in six countries around Europe. There are sixteen partner organisations <\/a>involved in the project, which is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 fund. The project activities are geographically focused in six areas \u2013 two regions and four cities. These are: Amsterdam in the Netherlands; Bristol in the UK; Ljubljana in Slovenia; Sosnowiec in Poland; the Aveiro region in Portugal and the Liguria region around Genoa in Italy. The project aims to model citizens\u2019 behaviour and activities to enrich public engagement with city, national and EU policy making about air quality and health. The resulting policy scenarios will allow cities to work towards improved air quality, reduced carbon emissions, improved public health outcomes and greater citizen awareness.<\/p>\n

\"Integrate<\/p>\n

Each city or region is hosting a series of events and special activities to engage citizens in the ClairCity process and with the issues of air pollution and public health. The range of activities is designed to attract a range of different audiences into the project. There are large, online surveys, face-to-face encounters, workshops for citizens and local organisations, an online game, a free app, a schools\u2019 competition, film-making with older people, city events and celebrations of cleaner air and better health. Promoting each of these requires planning for different audiences, meaning different media of communication, messaging, timescales and targets.<\/p>\n

Our public activities in Bristol<\/a> will start in May 2017, with our Bristol game release scheduled for April 2018.<\/p>\n

Top tips for large, international projects:<\/h3>\n

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