Citizen Science (CS) in Europe, as elsewhere, continues to manifest itself in a variety of different ways. While attracting interest across multiple sectors of society, its definition remains unclear. The first CS Track White Paper on Themes, objectives and...
The following text is written by Sonja Grossberndt, Antonella Passani, Giulia Di Lisio, Annelli Janssen and Nuria Castell Short summary This article describes an impact assessment method of CS activities in Norwegian high schools. The students built...
The following text is a summary written by The CS Track editorial team and is based on the report elaborated by Marina Manzoni, Katrin Vohland and Sven Schade. The survey results included in the recently published JRC report entitled Exploring Citizen...
Understanding motivations is important because appealing to and fulfilling motivations helps Citizen Science projects recruit and retain participants. Motivations are defined as the subjective reasons people give for their behaviours. They vary between people, with...
Public engagement with science has long been established as a model within science communication research advocating for two-way dialogue between scientists and the public, discussing public needs and including them in decision-making processes. With close alignment...
With citizen science, it is possible to gather and analyse data across environmental, natural and health sciences, humanities and arts, and engage and empower additional people to join the debate about the future. However, to demonstrate the full potential of citizen...
Many citizen science (CS) projects have been developed in environmental science to monitor air and noise pollution, and water quality in response to citizens’ concerns. However, CS projects related to environmental epidemiology are limited, largely because of the lack...
What is Citizen Science (CS)? Can anyone truly participate? To what extent does swabbing the nose of your young children at home and sending the results to scientists align with and can be considered a CS activity? What can be learned about the responsibility and...
Citizen science is an area in which interest has increased over the years. People who are not professional scientists get involved in citizen science projects with the intention of solving a question that they find to be of interest. Traditionally, scientific...
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