ASOCIATA AER PUR ROMANIA

Their core work

Aer Pur Romania ("Clean Air Romania") is a Bucharest-based NGO dedicated to tobacco control and respiratory public health. Their real-world work sits at the intersection of advocacy, public policy, and epidemiological research — they bring the civil society and patient/public voice into EU-funded regulatory science projects. In the H2020 context, they contributed to multi-country efforts to evaluate and strengthen tobacco product regulation across Europe, translating scientific findings into actionable policy recommendations. Their role is essentially that of a specialist advocacy and dissemination partner with deep sectoral expertise in tobacco harm reduction and air quality-related public health.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first H2020 project (2016–2018), Aer Pur Romania participated in EUREST-PLUS, focused on the policy implementation side of tobacco regulation — measuring the effects of the EU Tobacco Products Directive and pushing for compliance across member states. Their second project (2021–2025) through EUREST-RISE shifts the emphasis toward research capacity and knowledge exchange: the explicit keywords become tobacco control, epidemiology, and public policy, signaling a maturation from pure advocacy into a more research-engaged role. The overall trajectory is a deepening within the same thematic lane rather than a pivot — they are becoming a more scientifically credible civil society voice rather than branching into new health domains.

Aer Pur Romania is consolidating a niche as a research-capable NGO partner in tobacco and respiratory public health, making them an increasingly attractive civil society node for future Horizon Europe health or cancer mission projects.

How they like to work

Aer Pur Romania participates exclusively as a consortium partner — they have never coordinated an H2020 project. Despite only two projects, they are embedded in a surprisingly broad network of 25 partners across 13 countries, which means both EUREST projects were large, multi-institutional consortia rather than small bilateral efforts. This profile suggests they are a reliable specialist contributor who bring NGO legitimacy and Romanian national context to consortium bids, not a project management or coordinating entity.

With 25 unique consortium partners across 13 countries from just 2 projects, Aer Pur Romania is plugged into a wide, established European tobacco research network — the EUREST family spans institutions from Greece, UK, Germany, Spain, and beyond. Their geographic footprint is clearly European, anchored in the pan-EU tobacco control research community.

What sets them apart

Aer Pur Romania occupies a narrow but hard-to-replicate niche: they are one of the very few Romanian civil society organizations with a traceable, multi-project track record in EU-funded tobacco regulatory science. For consortium coordinators targeting Eastern European NGO representation in health projects, or seeking a partner with Romanian stakeholder access in the tobacco and air quality space, this organization is a natural fit. Their value is not in research infrastructure but in legitimacy, local reach, and sustained commitment to a single high-priority public health domain.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EUREST-RISE
  The largest funding award (EUR 92,000) and the longer duration (2021–2025) under the prestigious MSCA-RISE scheme signals growing institutional capacity and integration into the European tobacco research mobility network.
• EUREST-PLUS
  Their debut H2020 project, focused on evaluating the real-world impact of the EU Tobacco Products Directive across multiple member states — a high-relevance policy science effort that established their EU credentials.