Children spend around 200 days in school per year and 70% of that time is spent inside classrooms.
Alongside the home, classrooms are one of the most important indoor environments for children - but are today's classrooms designed to stimulate learning and boost performance?
Unfortunately not - too many children across Europe are working in classrooms with an inadequate supply of fresh air and daylight, as revealed in a recent study by the German research institute, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP.
Coupled with new research from INSERM/UPMC (Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Disease (EPAR) Department, IPLESP), which has shown that academic performance can be boosted by up to 15% with more access daylight, we need to take action.