The Annual Conference 'Green Lungs for Our Cities' is held on alternative monitoring of air, noise and urban greenery where the first monitoring was presented in some of the areas in Tirana, Elbasan, Shkodra, and Durres. This conference was held as part of a project funded by the European Union and implemented by the Co-PLAN Institute for Habitat Development and Milieukontakt Albania (member of Milieukontakt International Network). Representatives of civil society, academics, field experts, students, and interested citizens were present.

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The first findings of alternative monitoring for air quality, noise, and urban greenery in the cities of Tirana, Durres, Shkodra, and Elbasan are presented. The data obtained from the monitoring so far and those that will follow will be reflected in the online platform in real-time, public, and readable by all interested parties.

From April 2018 until today in the frame of Green Lungs project financed by the European Union, Milieukontakt Albania and Co-Plan have monitored the air quality in 84 different monitoring stations in Tirana city. The monitoring will be extended further over the next two years covering almost the entire area within the Grand Ring of Tirana.  For the monitoring, it is used the equipment called Aeroqual Series 500, as alternative monitoring of the air ...

Within the framework of the project 'Lungs for our cities', the air quality monitoring network, led by Co-Plan, the Institute for Habitat Development and partner organization Milieukontakt Albania, has carried out measurements of air quality indicators over the months October-December 2018 ( Here is the published article). The methodology is built taking into account the proximity of educational institutions and sources of pollution to the sectors with the largest pollutant emissions (...

Noise is defined as any unwanted or harmful sound created by human activities, including noise emitted by means of transport, by road, rail, air traffic, and industrial sites.
Noise, like all sounds, is measured by the intensity and frequency of the waves that hit the ear. The unit used to measure the noise level is decibels (dB). The higher the number of decibels, the higher the noise and the more harmful it becomes to the ears.
The factors that influence the generation of high noise levels are many, but the most important are:
• Urban planning is not integrated w...