Diams Project Journal 1

In this first journal about the DIAMS project, UIA Expert Anna Font provides a general overview of how DIAMS fits within the existing European, French and local legislation regarding air quality, so to contextualize the important role that DIAMS can play not just in the Aix Marseille Metropole, but also on a wider European scale. The journal focuses also on the main challenges that the DIAMS project has encountered in its implementation so far. Some of these are common to other environmental projects that aim to engage and communicate with all parts of the society - including the most sceptical groups - while others are given by the local circumstances (e.g. local elections in March 2020 that have held up the leadership of the project, the strategic discrepancies between some of the partners of the project).