As part of the expansion of cooperation with the NGO SaveDnipro and the implementation of project 101127143 – RISE-UP – ERASMUS-JMO-2023-HEI-TCH-RSCH under the Jean Monnet Module “Radiation Safety: A European-Ukrainian Approach”, a Radnote radiation monitoring station was installed on the premises of Dolyna Lyceum No. 4 of Dolyna City Council, Ivano-Frankivsk Region.
This initiative was supported by Volodymyr Kotsiubynskyi, Head of the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science at Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University, and Professor Volodymyra Boichuk.
The SaveDnipro public radiationmonitoring project is being implemented jointly with the international partners Safecast and Blues Inc. Radnote stations are autonomous devices that do not require a local internet connection or an external power source and transmit real-time radiation background data to the SaveEcoBot system.
As of the end of 2025, SaveDnipro had already installed and put into operation 65 stations of this type across Ukraine within the project, and the network itself has become an important tool for providing citizens with rapid access to public environmental data. We sincerely thank the Director of the Lyceum, Mykola Zankovych, and physics teacher Iryna Voloshchuk for their openness to cooperation and assistance in installing the station.
Thanks to such local partnerships, modern environmental monitoring tools are becoming accessible not only to specialists but also to the school community, helping pupils and teachers understand that modern environmental monitoring is based on open data, continuous observation technologies, and a responsible attitude towards information about the state of the environment.
Cooperation between the university, a non-governmental organisation, an international monitoring network and a secondary education institution is a clear example of how citizens, educators and researchers can jointly contribute to the creation of socially useful open data infrastructure.
