Gitte Kragh is a postdoc at Aarhus University, ecologist at NORDECO, co-founder of the Danish Citizen Science Network, and a Board member of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA).

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Dr. Elissa M. Redmiles is a faculty member and research group leader of the Safety & Society group at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. She has additionally served as a consultant and researcher at multiple institutions, including Microsoft Research, Facebook, the World Bank, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the University of Zurich.

Continue reading Data donation and Citizen Science  – an interview with Elissa Redmiles, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems at Citizen Science | CS Track Project.

Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) hosted a busy project meeting over the last 3 days in the lovely Poblenou Campus in Barcelona. This meeting comes at a critical time in the life of the project when much of the planned triangulation work comes to the fore and the various research teams prepare and submit their scientific findings to relevant journals and conferences. It was also a really useful opportunity to discuss the various insights and findings that can be made by the team.

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In order to better tailor our work to the needs of our different stakeholders, the CS Track team led a series of focus group discussions in September. These focus groups directly involved over 30 people coming from different stakeholder communities including policy-makers and officers, platform and support agency representatives, people interested in CS from an educational perspective and CS project leaders, participants and researchers.

Continue reading More information on replicable models – just one of the priorities for CS Track stakeholders at Citizen Science | CS Track Project.

Huma Shah is an Assistant Professor and Researcher in AI at Coventry University in the UK. She is a passionate defender of online privacy. She is currently directing the science on the EU-funded CSI-COP project. This aims to raise awareness of citizens’ right to privacy online, and to mobilise citizen scientists from across Europe and beyond to investigate the different types of trackers in websites and apps.

Continue reading Why is the protection of online privacy important to the Citizen Science community? – an interview with Huma Shah from CSI-COP at Citizen Science | CS Track Project.

Professor Romain Julliard is director of MOSAIC, a scientific unit located in the Museum of National History and Sorbonne University in France which was set up in 2020 with the specific aim of assisting researchers in developing citizen science projects.

Continue reading Citizen Science: Bridging the gap between Formal and Informal Science? – an interview with Romain Julliard from MOSAIC, France at Citizen Science | CS Track Project.

Sven Schade is Scientific Policy Officer at the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission. Recently he was one of the speakers at the Citizen Science for Policy across Europe webinar organised by EU-Citizen.

Continue reading Citizen Science and policy-making – an interview with Sven Schade from the JRC at Citizen Science | CS Track Project.

Stefanie Schuerz, Barbara Kieslinger, Teresa Schäfer and Katja Mayer all work at the Zentrum für Soziale Innovation GmbH/Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) in Austria which has been at the cutting edge of Citizen Science in Europe for many years.

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The Crowd4SDG project team are organising a panel discussion entitled “Unleashing the potential of Citizen Science Data for monitoring the SDGs” for National Statistical Offices and Systems that will take place on 27 May 2021 at 14:00 – 16:30 CET. The panel is organised by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), which is a partner in the EU-funded Crowd4SDG project, to share the results of the Crowd4SDG report developed with the guidance of the Advisory Group on how to leverage citizen science data for monitoring the SDGs using both “active” and “passive” approaches, as well as what quality assurance criteria to consider. 

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Organised jointly by BRITEC with Scientix, AmgenTeach, CS Track and the STEM Alliance, the 2021 STEM High Level Event “Bringing Research Into the Classroom” will offer two days, 20 and 21 May, of online conferences and interactive sessions with researchers and representatives from universities, schools, and industries. On Friday, 21 May, our partners from the University of Jyväskylä and Universitat Pompeu Fabra will present initial results from the CS Track survey. For more information about the event please click here.

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