The YOUCOUNT project team aims to develop ‘actionable’ knowledge of the positive drivers for social inclusion of disadvantaged young people. They are planning to invite citizen scientists to take part in case studies in 9 European countries and therefore it was important for them to discuss what incentives they should use and how to avoid the exploitation of young citizen scientists. They’ve recently published a blog post entitled “How to Reward Young Citizen Social Scientists?” in which they shared their reflections. Read the blog post here.
CS Track publishes policy recommendations based on project results
Since November 2019 the international research project CS Track has been combining traditional social-science methods with web-based and computational analytics in order to systematically survey the field of Citizen Science. Based on our findings, we have now...