A SYstem for reaL-time obserVation of Aeroallergens

Food, Bioeconomy & Natural ResourcesHORIZON-IAID: 101086109
EC Contribution
€29,987
Consortium Size
12 orgs
Start Year
2023
Summary

Primary biological aerosols (bioaerosols: mainly pollen and fungal spores, but also bacteria and viruses) released into the air by plants, fungi, and other biota, are strongly impacted by climate change. Simultaneously, they also directly affect the climate through interactions with clouds and precipitation. Many bioaerosols, especially pollen and some fungal spores, have allergenic effect on humans. Such aeroallergens affect over 80 million Europeans, reducing their quality of life and costing well over €50 billion/year. Information on bioaerosols is also vital for agriculture and forestry, where timely data about plant development, abundance of pathogens and parasites, as well as invasive species, are necessary for precision-agriculture and knowledge-based technologies. The demand for timely, free, and objective information is currently not met. The overall goal of SYLVA is:To achieve a radical improvement and fill gaps in temporal resolution, timeliness, coverage, and availability of information about aeroallergens and other bioaerosols. SYLVA technological innovations will be accompanied with new infrastructure, distribution and exploitation pathways, and links with stakeholders to ensure technology uptake and sustainability beyond the lifetime of the project.To achieve this goal, the project will:- Develop cutting-edge bioaerosol monitoring technologies- Create bioaerosol monitoring ICT infrastructure and software following open-source principles and connect it to European environmental observing systems- Validate the operational maturity and added-value of bioaerosol monitoring technology through Demonstration Pilots in three European regions - Maximise impact by demonstrating SYLVA innovations to key stakeholders related to climate, health, agriculture, silviculture, and the environment- Ensure the long-term sustainability of bioaerosol technology and infrastructure across Europe

Consortium (12)

Project Results (26)

Source: CORDIS, the EU research results database.

Publications (19)
Advancing automated identification of airborne fungal spores: guidelines for cultivation and reference dataset creation
Aerobiologia· 2025DOI
Nicolas Bruffaerts; Elias Graf; Predrag Matavulj; Astha Tiwari; Ioanna Pyrri; Yanick Zeder; Sophie Erb; Maria Plaza; Silas Dietler; Tommaso Bendinelli; Elizabet D’hooge; Branko Sikoparija
Advancing in the pollen frontier: a comprehensive evaluation and meta-analysis of automatic pollen monitoring systems
Aerobiologia· 2025DOI
Qasim Farooq; José Oteros; Carmen Galán
Insight into outdoor bioaerosol diversity by using high volume sampling and environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis
Atmospheric Environment· 2025DOI
Ljiljana Šašić Zorić, Deepika Pal, Milomir Stefanović, Jelena Jović, Ljiljana Janjušević, Marijana Vasić, Tijana Milosavljević, Aleksandra Stankov Petreš, Kristina Kalkan, Branko Šikoparija
Operational pollen classification using digital holography and fluorescence
Aerobiologia· 2025DOI
Benoît Crouzy; Marie-Pierre Meurville; Bernard Clot; Sophie Erb; Maria Lbadaoui; Fiona Tummon; Gian Lieberherr
Pollen holographic images and light-induced fluorescence measurements at the species level
Scientific Data· 2025DOI
Sophie Erb; Alexis Berne; Bernard Clot; Maria Lbadaoui-Darvas; Gian-Duri Lieberherr; Marie-Pierre Meurville; Fiona Tummon; Benoît Crouzy
Classification accuracy and compatibility across devices of a new Rapid-E+ flow cytometer
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques· 2024DOI
Branko Sikoparija; Predrag Matavulj; Isidora Simovic; Predrag Radisic; Sanja Brdar; Vladan Minic; Danijela Tesendic; Evgeny Kadantsev; Julia Palamarchuk; Mikhail Sofiev
Digitally-enabled, person-centred care (PCC) in allergen immunotherapy: An ARIA-EAACI Position Paper
Allergy· 2024DOI
Pfaar, O., Sousa‐Pinto, B., Papadopoulos, N.G., Larenas‐Linnemann, D.E., Ordak, M., Torres, M.J., Mösges, R., Klimek, L., Zuberbier, T., Matricardi, P.M., Berger, U.E., Berger, M., Dramburg, S., Mahler, V., Toppila‐Salmi, S.K., Bergmann, K. et al.
EAACI guidelines on environmental science for allergy and asthma: The impact of short-term exposure to outdoor air pollutants on asthma-related outcomes and recommendations for mitigation measures
Allergy· 2024DOI
Agache I, Annesi-Maesano I, Cecchi L, Biagioni B, Fan Chung K, Clot B, D’Amato G, Damialis A, del Giacco S, Dominguez-Ortega J, Galàn C, Gilles S, Holgate S, Jeebhay M, Kazadzis S, Nadeau K, Papadopoulos N, Quirce S, Sastre J, Tummon F, et al.
European pollen reanalysis, 1980–2022, for alder, birch, and olive
Scientific Data· 2024DOI
Mikhail Sofiev; Julia Palamarchuk; Rostislav Kouznetsov; Tamuna Abramidze; Beverley Adams-Groom; Célia M. Antunes; Arturo H. Ariño; Maximilian Bastl; Jordina Belmonte; Uwe E. Berger; Maira Bonini; Nicolas Bruffaerts; Jeroen Buters; Paloma Cariñanos; Sevcan Celenk; Valentina Ceriotti; Athanasios Charalampopoulos; Yolanda Clewlow; Bernard Clot; Aslog Dahl; Athanasios Damialis; Concepción De Linares; Letty A. De Weger; Lukas Dirr; Agneta Ekebom; Yalda Fatahi; María Fernández González; Delia Fernández González; Santiago Fernández-Rodríguez; Carmen Galán; Björn Gedda; Regula Gehrig; Carmi Geller Bernstein; Nestor Gonzalez Roldan; Lukasz Grewling; Lenka Hajkova; Risto Hänninen; François Hentges; Juha Jantunen; Evgeny Kadantsev; Idalia Kasprzyk; Mathilde Kloster; Katarzyna Kluska; Mieke Koenders; Janka Lafférsová; Poliana Mihaela Leru; Agnieszka Lipiec; Maria Louna-Korteniemi; Donát Magyar; Barbara Majkowska-Wojciechowska; Mika Mäkelä; Mirjana Mitrovic; Dorota Myszkowska; Gilles Oliver; Pia Östensson; Rosa Pérez-Badia; Krystyna Piotrowska-Weryszko; Marje Prank; Ewa Maria Przedpelska-Wasowicz; Sanna Pätsi; F. Javier Rodríguyez Rajo; Hallvard Ramfjord; Joanna Rapiejko; Victoria Rodinkova; Jesús Rojo; Luis Ruiz-Valenzuela; Ondrej Rybnicek; Annika Saarto; Ingrida Sauliene; Andreja Kofol Seliger; Elena Severova; Valentina Shalaboda; Branko Sikoparija; Pilvi Siljamo; Joana Soares; Olga Sozinova; Anders Stangel; Barbara Stjepanović; Erik Teinemaa; Svyatoslav Tyuryakov; M. Mar Trigo; Andreas Uppstu; Mart Vill; Julius Vira; Nicolas Visez; Tiina Vitikainen; Despoina Vokou; Elżbieta Weryszko-Chmielewska; Ari Karppinen
Influence of meteorological variables and air pollutants on measurements from automatic pollen sampling devices
Science of The Total Environment· 2024DOI
González-Alonso, M., Oteros, J., Widmann, M., Maya-Manzano, J.M., Skjøth, C., Grewling, L., O'Connor, D., Sofiev, M., Tummon, F., Crouzy, B., Clot, B., Buters, J., Kadantsev, E., Palamarchuk, Y., Martinez-Bracero, M., Pope, F.D., Mills, S. et al.
Real-time pollen identification using holographic imaging and fluorescence measurements
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques· 2024DOI
Erb, S., Graf, E., Zeder, Y., Lionetti, S., Berne, A., Clot, B., Lieberherr, G., Tummon, F., Wullschleger, P., and Crouzy, B.
Shipping and algae emissions have a major impact on ambient air mixing ratios of non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) and methanethiol on Utö Island in the Baltic Sea
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics· 2024DOI
H. Hellén; R. Kouznetsov; K. Kraft; J. Seppälä; M. Vestenius; J.-P. Jalkanen; L. Laakso; L. Laakso; H. Hakola
The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action.
The Lancet Public Health· 2024DOI
Van Daalen, K.R., Tonne,C., Semenza,J.C., Rocklöv,J., Markandya,A., Dasandi,N., Jankin,S., Achebak, H., Ballester, J., Bechara, H., Beck, T.M., Callaghan, M.W., Carvalho, B.M., Chambers, J., Pradas,M.C., Courtenay,O., Dasgupta,S., Eckelman, M.J., et al.
The role of automatic pollen and fungal spore monitoring across major end-user domains
Aerobiologia· 2024DOI
Tummon, F., Adams-Groom, B., Antunes, C.M., Bruffaerts, N., Buters, J., Cariñanos, P., Celenk, S., Choël, M., Clot, B., Cristofori, A., Crouzy, B., Damialis, A., Fernández, A.R., González, D.F., Galán, C., Gedda, B., Gehrig, R., Gonzalez-Alonso, M. et al.
Climate change, airborne allergens, and three translational mitigation approaches
eBioMedicine· 2023DOI
Beggs, P.J., Clot, B., Sofiev, M., Johnston, F.H.
Designing an automatic pollen monitoring network for direct usage of observations to reconstruct the concentration fields
Science of The Total Environment· 2023DOI
Sofiev M, Buters J, Tummon F, Fatahi Y, Sozinova O, Adams-Groom B, Bergmann KC, Dahl A, Gehrig R, Gilge S, Kofol Seliger A, Kouznetsov R, Lieberherr G, O’Connor D, Oteros J, Palamarchuk J, Ribeiro H, Werchan B, Werchan M, Clot B.
Explainable AI for unveiling deep learning pollen classification model based on fusion of scattered light patterns and fluorescence spectroscopy
Scientific Reports· 2023DOI
Brdar, S., Panić, M., Matavulj, P., Stanković, M., Bartolić, D., Šikoparija, B.
Is exposure to pollen a risk factor for moderate and severe asthma exacerbations?
Allergy· 2023DOI
Annesi-Maesano I, Cecchi L, Biagioni B, Chung KF, Clot B, Collaud Coen M, D'Amato G, Damialis A, Dominguez-Ortega J, Galàn C, Gilles S, Holgate S, Jeebhay M, Kazadzis S, Papadopoulos NG, Quirce S, Sastre J, Tummon F, Traidl-Hoffmann C, et al.
Towards European automatic bioaerosol monitoring: Comparison of 9 automatic pollen observational instruments with classic Hirst-type traps
Science of The Total Environment· 2023DOI
Maya-Manzano, J.M., Tummon, F., Abt, R., Allan, N., Bunderson, L., Clot, B., Crouzy, B., Daunys, G., Erb, S., Gonzalez-Alonso, M., Graf, E., Grewling, Ł., Haus, J., Kadantsev, E., Kawashima, S., Martinez-Bracero, M., Matavulj, P., Mills, S., et al.
Deliverables (6)
Other Results (1)
Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SYLVA (A SYstem for reaL-time obserVation of Aeroallergens)