Applied research

Partner in the following research project funded by European Union in the framework of Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020:

• iCHANGE (individual Change of Habits Needed for Green European transition), funded with about 4.950.000 €, follows the Research and Innovation actions type of funding scheme and addresses the Topic LC-GD-10-3-2020 "Enabling citizens to act on climate change, for sustainable development and environmental protection through education, citizen science, observation initiatives, and civic engagement” 2021-2025
• Clair-City (Citizen Led Air pollution Reduction in Cities) funded with over € 6.5 million, follows the Research and Innovation actions type of funding scheme and addresses the Topic SC5-04-2015 - “Improving the Air Quality and Reducing the Carbon Footprint of European Cities”, 2016-2020.

The company has the following experiences in attending at International Task Forces:

• Combustion Industry expert panel in the frame of UNECE Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projection (from 2000, Carlo Trozzi is the co-leader at Expert Panel from 2004). The Task force was established in 1991, based on the agreement of the Executive Body of the Convention on Long - Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP), 
• to support the work of the Environmental Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP). Successively, it was sponsored by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe assuming the new name of Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections (TFEIP).

• ICAO Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection CAEP 8 (2009-2010)
  • Working Group 2 (WG2) – Operations, Task Group 4 (TG4) Airport Air Quality
  • Working Group 2 (WG2) – Operations, Task Group 2 (TG2) Air traffic Management
     
• ICAO Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection CAEP9 (2011-2012)
  • Modelling and Databases Group (MDG)
     
• ICAO Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection CAEP10 (2013-2014)
  • ISG. Impacts and Science
  • FESG. Forecasting and Economics
  • MDG. Modelling
     

• Emission Modeling Committe in the framework of Emission Inventory Improvement Program of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (2001-2002)
   
• Mobile Source Committe in the frame of Emission Inventory Improvement Program of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (2000-2002)
   
• COST 319 action "estimation of pollutant emissions from transport" may 1993 - october1998
   
• UNECE/EMEP Task Force on Emission Inventories and Proiection (TFEI) dal 1991
   
• Group of experts for the invetory CORINAIR 1990 elaborated in cooperation with EMEP and IPCC-OECD to assist in the realization of the invertories requested by the Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution Convention and by the Framework Climate Change Convention
  
  
• Group of experts for the inventory CORINAIR 1985 Inventory. European Communities Council Decision 85/338/EEC (OJ, 1985) established an "experimental project for gathering, coordinating and ensuring the consistency of information on the state of the environment and natural resources in the Community". The program had the name CORINE – CO-oRdination INformation Environment and included a project to collect and organize the air pollutants data relevant for acid deposition - CORINAIR. This pilot project began in 1996 with the aim to compile a coordinated air emissions inventory of the 12 Member States present in 1985 (CORINAIR 1985). The inventory CORINAIR 1985 was developed with the Member States, Eurostat, OECD and UNECE/EMEP. The inventory was completed in 1990.

In the following the applied research activities carried out by Techne Consulting are listed:

• Subcontract from European Topic Centre for Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation (ETC/ACM) task 1.1.3.1 for Support on review of updated chapters of EMEP/EEA Emission Inventory Guidebook 
  RIVM, National Institute for Public Health and Environment, 2012
   
• Update of the maritime Guidebook chapter 
  Aristotle University Thessaloniki, 2010
   
• Update of emission factors for maritime navigation 
  Aristotle University Thessaloniki, 2009
   
• Revision of the EMEP/EEA Emission Inventory Guidebook chapter on navigation (1A3d) 
  Aristotle University Thessaloniki, 2008
   
• MEET Project “Methodologies for estimating air pollutant emissions from transport” within the specific Transport programme under 4th Research and Technology Development Framework Programme of the European Commission. (extension of contract) 
  European Communities, 1998 
   
• MEET project "Methodologies for estimating air pollutant emissions from transport" within the specific Transport programme under 4th Research and Technology Development Framework Programme of the European Commission. 
  European Communities, 1996
   
• Research in the framework of "ENEL-CNR convention on the interaction of the energy systems with the health of man and with the environment" having as subject the "evaluation of the pollutant loads in areas concerning energy poles" - Implementation of a case study related to the area of Piombino 
  ENEL SpA, 1993
   
• Research within the "ENEL-CNR convention on the interaction of the energy systems with the health of man and with the environment" having as subject the "evaluation of the pollutant loads in areas concerning energy poles" - Setup of a methodology for the cartographic representation of the emissions and of air quality data 
  ENEL SpA, 1992
   
• Research within "ENEL-CNR convention on the interaction of the energy systems with the health of man and with the environment" having as subject the "evaluation of the pollutant loads in areas concerning energy poles" - Setup of a methodology for the quick compilation of the emissions inventory and for spatial - temporal disaggregation
  ENEL SpA, 1990
   
• Research related to the development of the Energy Project of CNR/ENEA (subproject “ Energy Models and Databases”) having as subject: "Integration of databases internal and external to S.I.N.E. (National Energy Informative System)”" 
  ENEA-CNR, 1988

Furthermore, our technical director coordinates several chapters of the EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook 2016 and he coordinated in the past several chapters of the EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook 2013, EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook 2009, EMEP/CORINAIR Emission Inventory Guidebook - 2007 and EMEP/CORINAIR Emission Inventory Guidebook - 2006. 

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