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Partners’ related publications
To reach the TRIGGER objectives, our 22 partners bring together expertise from a wide variety of fields and backgrounds.
Their multi-disciplinary trajectories will jointly address the common challenge of deepening the current understanding of the linkages between climate change, human health, and ecosystems.
On this page, you can learn more about the TRIGGER’s framework and from our partners’ studies and experience.

Università Di Bologna
Observational evidence of intensified nocturnal urban heat island during heatwaves in European cities
Year of publication 2022
A Spatial Ecosystem Services Assessment to Support Decision and Policy Making: The Case of the City of Bologna
Year of publication 2021
Comparison between 16S rRNA and shotgun sequencing data for the taxonomic characterization of the gut microbiota
Year of publication 2021
Nature-Based Solutions Tools for Planning Urban Climate Adaptation: State of the Art
Year of publication 2021
Mapping RRI Dimensions and Sustainability into Regional Development Policies and Urban Planning Instruments
Year of publication 2020
Shotgun Metagenomics of Gut Microbiota in Humans with up to Extreme Longevity and the Increasing Role of Xenobiotic Degradation
Year of publication 2020
The Multiple-Scale Nature of Urban Heat Island and Its Footprint on Air Quality in Real Urban Environment
Year of publication 2020
Spatial Distribution of Air Pollutants in Cities
Year of publication 2017
Developing a Research Strategy to Better Understand, Observe, and Simulate Urban Atmospheric Processes at Kilometer to Subkilometer Scales
Year of publication 2017

Azienda Ospedaliero – Universitaria di Bologna
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Multisensor Monitoring during Home Confinement Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Year of publication 2022
The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Restrictions on Cardiac Implantable Device Recipients with Remote Monitoring
Year of publication 2021

University of Crete
Responses of schoolchildren with asthma to recommendations to reduce desert dust exposure: Results from the LIFE-MEDEA intervention project using wearable technology.
Year of publication 2023
Improved indoor air quality during desert dust storms: The impact of the MEDEA exposure-reduction strategies.
Year of publication 2023
Pediatric asthma symptom control during lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic in Spring 2020: A prospective community-based study in Cyprus and Greece
Year of publication 2022
Health effects of desert dust storm events in the south-eastern Mediterranean: perceptions and practices of local stakeholders.
Year of publication 2021
The MEDEA childhood asthma study design for mitigation of desert dust health effects: implementation of novel methods for assessment of air pollution exposure and lessons learned.
Year of publication 2021
Use of wearable sensors to assess compliance of asthmatic children in response to lockdown measures for the COVID-19 epidemic
Year of publication 2021
Spatio-temporal variability of desert dust storms in Eastern Mediterranean (Crete, Cyprus, Israel) between 2006 and 2017 using a uniform methodology
Year of publication 2020

Augsburg University
Using Clustering, Statistical Modeling, and Climate Change Projections to Analyze Recent and Future Region-Specific Compound Ozone and Temperature Burden Over Europe
Year of publication 2022
Determination of the influence of weather and air constituents on aortic aneurysm ruptures
Year of publication 2022
Heat and Ozone Pollution Waves in Central and South Europe—Characteristics, Weather Types, and Association with Mortality
Year of publication 2020

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Advances in the Application and Utility of Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Predictions
Year of publication 2022
Sources and composition of chemical pollution in Maritime Antarctica (King George Island), part 2: Organic and inorganic chemicals in snow cover at the Warszawa Icefield
Year of publication 2021
Mapping combined wildfire and heat stress hazards to improve evidence-based decision making
Year of publication 2019
Dynamical Malaria Forecasts Are Skillful at Regional and Local Scales in Uganda up to 4 Months Ahead
Year of publication 2019
Anatomy of a glacial meltwater discharge event in an Antarctic cove
Year of publication 2018
Multi-year analysis of distributed glacier mass balance modelling and equilibrium line altitude on King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula
Year of publication 2018
Seasonal predictions of agro-meteorological drought indicators for the Limpopo basin
Year of publication 2015
Potential Predictability of Malaria in Africa Using ECMWF Monthly and Seasonal Climate Forecasts
Year of publication 2015
Demonstration of successful malaria forecasts for Botswana using an operational seasonal climate model
Year of publication 2015
Global forecasting of thermal health hazards: the skill of probabilistic predictions of the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI)
Year of publication 2014

University College Dublin
Happier with less? Members of European environmental grassroots initiatives reconcile lower carbon footprints with higher life satisfaction and income increases
Year of publication 2020
Transmission of pro-environmental norms in large organizations.
Year of publication 2019
Interactions Matter: Modelling Everyday Pro-environmental Norm Transmission and Diffusion in Workplace Networks
Year of publication 2017
Social learning in social innovation initiatives : learning about systemic relations and strategies for transformative change. TRANSIT Brief#4
Year of publication 2017
Testing Scenarios to Achieve Workplace Sustainability Goals Using Backcasting and Agent-Based Modeling
Year of publication 2016
Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions
Year of publication 2016
Low carbon energy behaviors in the workplace: A qualitative study in Italy and Spain
Year of publication 2016
Environmental considerations in the organizational context: A pathway to pro-environmental behaviour at work
Year of publication 2016
Survey on public perceptions of environmental risks, Project ENV.
Year of publication 2015
An Agent-Based Model for Simulating Environmental Behavior in an Educational Organization
Year of publication 2015

JOANNEUM RESEARCH LIFE
Climate-Fit.City: Urban Climate Data and Services
Year of publication 2022
The demand side of climate services for real-time snow management in Alpine ski resorts: Some empirical insights and implications for climate services development
Year of publication 2021