With the insight agency Augur, we at Blueair investigated the air quality in learning environments and released a report called "Let’s clear the air" to summarize the findings. This is part of our global initiative CLEAN AIR FOR CHILDREN, which strives to ensure that all children have the right to breathe clean air. In addition to its many positive health effects, good air quality has been proven to contribute to long-term good health, a positive learning environment, and higher student attendance rates.

“It’s easier to think when you’re surrounded by clean air. I do more thinking when I’m outdoors.”

Student, 14

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Report: Let’s clear the air

• Air quality in learning environments
• Health effects of poor air quality
• Awareness of indoor air quality is relatively low
• Opinions of school staff, parents, and students
• Air quality – regulation and responsibility
• Key challenges to ensuring good indoor air quality
• Reflections from experts

About the report:

This report is based on a series of qualitative interviews with eighth-grade students, teachers, and school management at Enskede skola in Stockholm, as well as a national survey of 300 respondents that was conducted online with parents, teachers, and principals of schools with eighth-grade classes.

Interviews with three experts have been conducted to supplement the above. The three experts who participate in the report are Anna-Sara Claeson, associate professor of psychology and interdisciplinary research on chemical exposure and its connection to building-related ill health and chemical intolerance, Katarina Gospic, trained physiologist, doctor, Ph.D. at Karolinska Institutet, and pioneering brain researcher, and Malin Valsö, leg. psychologist with a focus on school development, leadership, and learning environments that work with health-promoting school development.

In addition, measurements of indoor air quality in the eighth-graders classrooms at Enskede skola have been carried out with advanced particle meters.

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