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The project lies in acquiring and installing air quality sensors for local monitoring with emphasis on the issue of household heating (so-called local heating sites) accompanied and verified by reference measurements. Measurements of dust particles will be carried out over one year in six selected municipalities of the South Moravian Region (SMR) and in two selected urban districts of the city of Brno, which to some extent, still have a predominantly rural character. The emphasis in the selection will be on the possibility of comparing municipalities with different ratios of heating sources. This comparison is one of the critical expected benefits of the project. In addition, sensors will be installed in up to 4 locations in each evaluated municipality so that the monitoring covers the entire municipality, its built-up area, the landscape relief and all the main meteorological conditions. Beyond the sensor measurements, the project activities will also include the analysis of dust particles in RECETOX laboratories - accredited analysis of 29 PAHs to identify potential health risks to which the population in the localities is exposed. Following the health risk assessment, an estimate of the economic costs of these health risks will be made and a survey of residents will be carried out, focusing on the heating method in the municipality, as well as on identifying the residents'' awareness of the health risks of air pollution and, above all, on identifying their willingness to change their heating method or to change to ensure a higher energy standard of their property, including the willingness to pay to achieve such a change and identifying the key barriers that the residents subjectively perceive.