Project Description

The 15th International Conference on “Air Quality – Science and Applications” will be held in Prague, Czech Republic during 1-5 June 2026. We invite researchers, scientists, and experts in the field of air quality to join us in sharing the latest advancements, research findings and new applications in this area and related aspects.

The main themes of the Conference are:

    • Development, Application and Evaluation of Air Quality Related Models for Local to Global Scales: Advances in modelling techniques for better understanding and forecasting of air quality.
    • Air Quality Monitoring and Earth Observations: Advances in measurement techniques and in combining satellite observations with measurements from ground-based instruments and models.
    • Air Pollution Sources and Emissions: Identifying, quantifying, and mitigating sources of air pollution of emerging concern, including industrial, transport, and natural sources.
    • Health and Environmental Impacts: Assessing the impact of air pollution on human health, ecosystems, and the environment, as well as strategies for mitigation.
    • Air Quality Policies and Regulations: Discussing international and local policies, regulations, and best practices for air quality management and improvement. New challenges for the policy-regulatory framework: fine and ultrafine particles; allergenic pollen.
    • Climate Change and Air Quality Interactions: Exploring the relationship between air quality and climate change, as well as strategies for tackling both challenges simultaneously. The impacts of wildfires on climate and air quality.
    • Urban Air Quality: Air quality challenges (modelling, monitoring, assessment) in urban environments. The aspect of spatial and temporal scale; green spaces and their air quality implications; current and future mobility methods and technologies and their impact on the urban environment.
    • Air Quality Information Services: Mobile apps, context aware web-based services, gamification-oriented methods and tools, good practices in service design, project and city-oriented examples.

Special sessions (preliminary list):

    • Pan-Eurasian EXperiment (PEEX) contribution on air quality in Mega and Gigacities
    • Transport emissions and policies
    • Machine learning /AI supported air quality monitoring and modelling
    • Emissions from European agriculture, e.g. livestock farming, fertilization, etc.
    • Science and policy for clean air and carbon neutral cities, revision of the Ambient Air Quality Directive
    • From smart cities to citizen scientists: unveiling the power of crowdsourcing sensor networks in air quality monitoring

See more details in the announcement of the Conference as well as at the Conference website: https://www.air-quality-conference.org/prague2026

News from the Conference Organizing Committee