Consortium Team - PLAN-B pruebas

The PLAN-B Consortium Team

4 Year Project

8 Countries Involved

12 Consortium Members

2.4M € Funding

Our Consortium members

Ghent University (Belgium)

UGENT serves as the coordinating institution with direct responsibility for the scientific and administrative coordination of PLAN-B’s scientific activities. Two faculties are involved in the consortium: the Faculty of Law and Criminology (Department of European, Public and International Law) and the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (Department of Information Technology).

UGENT will play an active role in formulating policy proposals and devising regulatory solutions for mitigating light and noise pollution across various levels, encompassing international, EU, and national contexts. Additionally, UGent will create models and technological solutions for measuring and alleviating noise pollution.

ugent.be

University od Salford (UK)

University os Salford Manchester (England)

University researchers will provide scientific coordination across the work programme, leading the Mechanisms of light and noise pollution impacts on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Salford University is responsible for the systematic review of light and noise impacts on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services, and for providing guidelines for assessing the impact of light and noise on terrestrial wildlife.

salford.ac.uk

Ibercivis Foundation (Spain)

Ibercivis serves as a catalyst for the ideas, challenges and questions of citizens who, without being directly involved in academia, wish to implement their scientific initiatives using their time, skills and knowledge.

In addition, we work together with public administrations to design objectives and draw up roadmaps that incorporate citizen science in universities, research institutes, local institutions and the media, presenting it as a catalogue of tools and methodologies that bring citizens closer to the country’s scientific development.

ibercivis.es

UK Centre for Ecology & Hidrology (UK)

UKCEH UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (United Kingdom)

UKCEH will lead the development of the PLAN-B Light and Noise pollution impacts knowledge base and, as the project progresses, lead the production of the Strategic Research Agenda for light and noise pollution impacts on terrestrial wildlife, biodiversity and ecosystem services.

They will also adapt models developed initially to assess human health benefits, so they can be used to calculate how green infrastructure (trees, grass, lakes, etc.) can help reduce the effects of light and noise pollution on biodiversity.

ceh.ac.uk

Gdansk Tech (Poland)

An inter-faculty effort between the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Gdańsk University of Technology.

pg.edu.pl/en

Martin-Luther Universität (Germany)

The development of the European situation analysis is led by this research institute and is fed by contributions from all other partners in a highly collaborative approach.

international.uni-halle.de

Lund University (Sweden)

The Department of Biology of Lund University will take care of measurements of light pollution.

Its lab has developed a novel method for quantifying light pollution on site from the animals’s positions.

lu.se

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Switzerland)

The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) is a world-leading institute in global health with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries.

950 staff and students from 95 nations work at Swiss TPH focusing on climate change, environment and health, infectious and non-communicable diseases, societal and cultural context, and health systems and policies. Our expertise spans from the bench to the field, from basic to operational, from molecular to spatial, and from genes to health systems. We treasure partnership, constantly go the extra mile and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.

swisstph.ch

Gdansk Municipality (Poland)

Gdnask is Poland’s sixth largest city and the largest port city in Poland. Between 1975 and 1998 it was the capital of the defunct Gdansk Voivodeship, and since 1998 it has been the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

The municipality of Gdansk will actively collaborate in PLAN-B’s activities through light and noise pollution measurement campaigns in several of its areas, as well as outdoor recreational activities and music festivals.

Universidade Do Estado De Minas Gerais (Brazil)

The brazilian university role in the PLAN-B project is focused on its replication in the Brazilian high biodiversity context.

It’s expected their contribution specially in presenting results for public polices, the commitment in the minimization of light and noise pollution on biodiversity and ecosystems and the promotion of a better human and wildlife coexistence culture.

One of the pilos of the project will be carried out in the neotropical region of Brazil.

uemg.br

Waita Institute (Brazil)

The Waita Research and Conservation Institute is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation, founded by professionals who strive to improve the conservation status of Brazilian biodiversity.

Biologists, veterinarians, students and volunteers from various areas carry out research projects and actions aimed primarily at the conservation of species victims of wildlife trafficking, developing a serious, consistent and differentiated work, becoming a reference in its area of activity.

Universidad Complutense Madrid (Spain)

The Complutense University will lead the creation of a reliable map of the artificial light at night, monitoring light pollution by using scientific models and citizen science approach. As a result, a crowdsourcing application will be developed to help georreference images taken from de International Space Station and set an accurate map of Europe at night.

lostatnight.org

The PLAN-B External Advisory Board

Eulalia Peris

European Environment Agency - EEA

Diana Wernisch

International Commission on Illumination - CIE

Valéry Ann Jacobs

International Commission on Illumination - CIE

Anika Jägerbrandt

International Commission on Illumination - CIE

Jorge Patricio

European Acoustics Association - EAA

Josef Settele

IPBES - Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform

Andreas Streit

Eurobats

Christian Voigt

Eurobats

Ruskin Hartley

dark Sky International

Travis Longcore

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

⁠Knut Erik Tollefsen

Norwegian Institute for Water Research / OECD ‘Adverse Outcome Pathways’

Elena Scaroni

Lighting Europe

Simon Wessels

Lighting Europe

Marion Ebel

Lighting Europe

Sharolyn Anderson

Dark Skies Advisory Group, IUCN

David Welch

Dark Skies Advisory Group, IUCN

Our Sister Project

Aquatic Pollution from Light and Anthropogenic Noise: Management of Impacts on Biodiversity.

Funded by the EU Horizon Europe Programme (along with UKRI), AquaPLAN is a €2.6 million, 4-year project that aims to quantify the combined impacts of Light and Noise Pollution (LNP) on aquatic biodiversity in European waters and facilitate the implementation of empirically sound strategies for managing these pollutants through novel interdisciplinary approaches.

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