Test before invest – a platform for monitoring industrial pollution
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Continuing the intensive and long term cocreation work in Krakow, the Living Lab’s work contributed to the development of the Air Quality Plan, a binding document for the entire Małopolska Region, with key assumptions and tools for significant ecological changes in the whole region. One of the main courses of activities furthering air quality improvement listed in the Air Quality Plan is the reduction of industrial emissions to the environment. KTP decided to continue the journey by focusing on this topic and enabling the implementation of one pilot project selected during the Smogathon 2019 (a hackathon focused on the air protection projects). This resulted in an experimental pilot implementation of a platform for monitoring industrial pollution in one of Malopolska’s counties. That pilot implementation became a tangible effect of the whole co-creation and experimentation journey.
About the Living Lab Krakow Technology Park was established in 1997. Its mission is to develop modern economy and innovative academy-based technology enterprises in the region. Krakow Technology Park plays a key role in the development and growth of the local economy in the area of ICT technologies and e-driven solutions, being a hub for innovative SMEs offering them varied infrastructure, state-of-the-art labs, office space and a vast range of training, information and consulting opportunities. As a Business Innovation Center, KTP supports directly over 150 companies (incubators, accelerators, tenants) located in the venue, gathers 100 IT & ICT based companies in clusters and the same number in special economic zones.
