WeBIOPATR 2025 : Abstracts of keynote invited lectures and contributed papers

Abstract

Welcome to the 10th WeBIOPATR Conference, to be held at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 26.–28.11.2025. Since 2007, the WeBIOPATR conferences and workshops are organized every second year to create a forum for Serbian and Western-Balkan experts and air pollution stakeholders, to inform each other about state of knowledge in atmospheric research in Serbia and internationally, and to explore opportunities and barriers to reduce air pollution and especially, particulate matter (PM) towards safer levels. Since the first conference, we have learnt much about the levels and negative effects of PM in Serbia and Western Balkan. The the air pollution burden in Serbia and in Belgrade has been reduced, in line with increased compliance with Serbian and European legislation. Our common quest is however not over, ambient pollution must further be reduced, bringing both the outdoor and the indoor levels towards safer levels. New challenges have arisen. New health-relevant metrics for PM have been established, and embedded in legislation, bringing with them further requirements for monitoring and assessment systems. New technologies are used across all observing platforms. Low-cost air quality sensos are now used in research and assessment as well as to raise awareness of air pollution in the society. Digitalization and Artificial Intellingence allow us to combine non- traditional data sources, and we can e.g., generate better emission estimates and precise finely time- and space resolved concentration fields that help us to develop targeted mitigation strategies. European Research Infrastructures are supporting harmonized methods and tools to generate, store and access research data on atmosphere, for the benefit of the wider scientific community and the society. This year's event brings to you over 50 key-notes, lectures and posters, touching upon the new developments and demonstrating the solid basis research in Serbia rests on. The conference is supported by the European Union co-funded project WeBASOOP (2022-2025, Grant agreement ID: 101060170, https://webasoop.org), by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of Serbia, by „Vinca“ Institute, Serbia, and by NILU, Norway. We are grateful to you, the participants, and to our sponsors, for the opportunity to meet here in Belgrade. The Book of Abstracts would not be possible without the unrelenting efforts of our co-editors who brought the abstracts to a common standard and without the language editing performed by Dr Simon Smith, to whom we would like to extend out sincere thanks.