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The Science of Citizen Science – new book published by COST Action
The eagerly awaited publication "The Science of Citizen Science" is now available as as open access publication from Springer. Over 100 authors contributed to this book, including Julia Lorke and Yaela Golumbic from the CS Track project team. "This book is a wonderful...
URJC presents eMagazine Community Platform at CCS’20 conference
The Citizen Social Science & Complex Systems Science Workshop is a Satellite Workshop within the Conference on Complex Systems 2020 that the Complex Systems Society organises every year. This year the workshop took place online on 9 December. The URJC team led by...
CitSciVirtual throughout May 2021
Citizen.Science.org have launched an exciting new online event for the Citizen Science community called CitSciVirtual which will run throughout May 2021. Under the banner CitSciVirtual: Local, Global, Connected the organisers say that they are 'taking the best...
New report from JRC on Scaling up Citizen Science
This report entitled Scaling up Citizen Science. What are the factors associated with increased reach and how to lever them to achieve impact is based on a theoretically grounded framework which aims to unbundle the meaning of scaling and spreading in Citizen...
URJC Promotes a better understanding of Citizen Science during Madrid Science and Innovation Week
CS Track partner URJC led a virtual session on 5 November as part of the XX edition of the Madrid Science and Innovation Week. The idea behind this session was to foster a better understanding of citizen science and what participation in citizen science projects...
Let’s talk about money – Citizen science and financial sustainability – free webinar on 19 November
The ACTION project is hosting an online event dedicated to CS financial sustainability on 19 November from 10:00 to 12:00 CET. This webinar includes talks with experts and success cases and provides an opportunity to discuss different sustainability options. The event...
Call for papers on Citizen Science in Higher Education
The Citizen Science: Theory and Practice journal is planning to publish a special collection on Citizen Science in Higher Education. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal providing a central space for cross-disciplinary...
Getting input on the the CS Track database
CS Track partner UPF are leading on the work to create a comprehensive database of projects that will help the team explore citizen science activities. To date this data collection includes data on over 12,000 projects and continues to expand. On 2/11, Patricia Santos...
3rd Annual Citizen Engagement and Deliberative Democracy Festival 6-12 December
The Citizen Engagement and Deliberative Democracy Festival is an annual event organised by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in the framework of the EU Community of Practice on Citizen Engagement. This year, the 3rd edition of the Citizen Engagement and...
Hybrid and hopeful, this week’s SDGs and Citizen Science conference in Berlin
81 presentations, 50 e-posters, 18 sessions, 5 plenary talks, 2 panel discussions, 1 evening event - that's what made up the Knowledge for Change: A decade of Citizen Science (2020-2030) Conference in support of the SDGs conference in Berlin this week. All this along...
Report on CS by Rand reflects the importance of cultures and institutions
This report entitled Community Citizen Science - from promise to action by Rand used findings from disaster response and recovery case studies to identify specific considerations for community citizen science implementation and impacts. Based on 4 key research...
Meet CS Track at the SDG Citizen Science conference Berlin on 14-15 October
In the CS Track project team, we are delighted to be taking part in the important Knowledge for Change: A decade of Citizen Science (2020-2030) in support of the SDGs Conference on 14 -15 October 2020. This will be a hybrid conference and is an official event of...
New release of EU-Citizen.Science Platform offers lots of additional features
One of the highlights of the ECSA Conference this week was the launch of a bunch of new features in EU-Citizen.Science platform which were launched during an online lunch meeting on Wednesday 9 September. The purpose of these new features is to foster collaboration...
Plans for creating a Community Platform for CS Track take shape
The technical specifications for the CS Track Community Platform were recently finalised in Deliverable 5.1 Technical Specification of the Community Platform. The work was carried out by a team of CS Track researchers led by Manuel Gértrudix from URJC. This...
JYU brings CS Track to Bioeconomy workshop in Finland
The CS Track team at JYU are presenting their work in CS Track during a workshop about citizen science on 14 September linked to forest bioeconomy in Northern Karelia, an area in Eastern Finland. During their presentation, they will describe what Citizen Science can...
One-in-ten U.S. adults say they have taken part in citizen science activity in past year
According to a study carried out recently by the Pew Research Center in the US, one out of 10 adults say they have taken part in an activity classified as citizen science in the past year, and a whopping 26% say that they have taken part in at least one such activity...
Web-based analytics methods and tools surveyed and specified for CS Track
A team of CS Track researchers led by Ulrich Hoppe from RIAS have finalised one of the first public deliverables of the project, the Specification of Web-based Analytics Methods and Tools (D3.1). In this deliverable, they describe the CS Track approach in terms of the...
Let’s talk about Citizen Science….
Michael Strähle & Christine Urban / Wissenschaftsladen Wien - Science Shop Vienna are giving a presentation related to their work in CS Track at the 2020 edition of the EASST/4S conference. The title of this fully online conference is "Locating and Timing Matters:...
EC Report summarises the impact of Citizen Science projects
The recently published report Citizen Science and Citizen Engagement - Achievements in Horizon 2020 and recommendations on the way forward provides an excellent snapshot of European Commission funded efforts in the area of Citizen Science. Written by Colombe Warin and...
Launch of REINFORCE web platform to stimulate community engagement
The REINFORCE project (Research Infrastructures FOR Citizens in Europe), supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 SWAFS programme, has launched its new fully-developed website. This platform offers a user-friendly browsing experience for the project’s target...
Lets talk about learning and education in Citizen Science
The recording and other materials generated by the recent webinar initiated by members of the ECSA working group on “Learning and Education in Citizen Science” and the Citizen Science COST Action are now available here. Facilitated by the EU-Citizen.Science project,...
Ecology tops the list of scientific fields in Citizen Science according to preliminary study in Australia
Dr. Yaela Golumbic has published initial results of the study that she is leading into citizen science in Australia. Her first results shows ecology to be the clear leader in terms of the scientific areas addressed. This research highlights the unique characteristics...
WeObserve project launches Open Data Challenge
The ultimate goal of the WeObserve Challenge is to find new approaches and solutions to respond to environmental challenges through open citizen-science datasets, as well as to produce applications and services and showcase citizen science data for public benefit. The...
Characteristics of Citizen Science webinar on 27 May
ECSA and EU-Citizen.Science are co-hosting a webinar about the recently published ‘Characteristics of citizen science’. This document is the output of a community-based effort to outline what can be characterized as citizen science. Led by members of...
Conference on Citizen Science decade in support of SDG
As part of the German EU Council Presidency, the Museum for Naturkunde in Berlin will host a conference on Citizen Science and the Sustainable Development Goals in autumn. The conference, entitled A citizen science decade (2020-2030) in support to the Sustainable...
Hard work these online meetings!
At certain moments during our two and a half day CS Track partner meeting held online from 4-6 May, we were 25 people from all over Europe discussing the progress of the project --- and it was hard work! but we made it and managed to cover an in-depth programme of...
What exactly is Citizen Science?
ECSA and EU.citizen-science have launched the “ECSA Characteristics of Citizen Science” – a foundation document to define the parameters of activities that can be called Citizen Science. This document aimed at providing some set criteria for citizen science, whose...
Citizen Science and Sustainability Transitions
A recently published paper on Science Direct discusses how citizen science can help addressing Sustainability Transitions (STs). The authors propose three pathways through which citizen science could support STs, based on the premise that any transition is...
EU vs Virus Hackathon
Between April 24 and 26, the European Commission hosted a pan-European hackathon to collectively address 20 imminent coronavirus challenges. The objective was to connect civil society, innovatiors, partners and investors across Europe to develop innovative solutions...
GRECO launches the Generation Solar app
The web-version of the citizen science Generation Solar app has just been launched. The GRECO project has developed this tool to research innovative photovoltaic solutions using open science and citizen science. We invite everyone to explore Generation Solar to be...
PLOS ONE moderates a dialogue on citizen science methodologies
On April 2, PLOS ONE moderated a Twitter chat on citizen science (CS) methodologies. The dialogue brought together CS practitioners and stakeholders to cover questions on the standardisation of CS projects, the quality of data submitted by citizen scientists,...
Evaluating the ability of citizen scientists to identify bumblebee species
In a paper published in PLOS ONE, professionals in the field of agroecology stress that bee monitoring projects have growing popularity throughout the world, especially among citizen scientists. Although the authors of the paper acknowledge citizen science data as...
EU-Citizen.Science Platform launched
The new EU-Citizen.Science digital platform for anyone interested in citizen science has just been launched. It gathers best practice resources from the community for initiating, planning and executing citizen science projects, and showcases a wide range of citizen...
Citizens play Foldit to advance research on COVID-19 antiviral therapy
Researchers from the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington are calling on citizen scientists to play Foldit – a free online game where players can design and identify proteins that might neutralize SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Read this recent...
The Odour Observatory challenges the impact measurement of Citizen Science approaches
In a recent blog post, the Odour Observatory challenges the impact measurement of citizen science approaches. In this post, the authors argue that while independent reports advocate for the many benefits of citizen-lead approaches, there is a need to reassess the data...
Last interview in EU.Citizen-Science series highlights value for minority groups
The final interview in the EU-Citizen.Science series about inclusion is with Shara Fisler from the Ocean Discovery Institute in the US. In this interview, Shara explains the approach her institute takes in engaging diverse community groups and presents the model that...
ECSA Conference postponed to 6-9 September
The European conference for citizen and participatory science 2020 (ECSA) which was to have taken place in Trieste, Italy has been postponed to 6-9 September, the conference will still take place in Trieste. You can find out more here.
CitSci2021 Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, USA 25-29 May 2021
The biennial CitSci conference brings attention to cutting-edge and evidence-based practices from many contexts, and connects people from across those contexts to highlight areas of innovation, share ideas and insights, and forge stronger relationships and practices...
ECSITE Conference 2020, Ljubliana, Slovakia 11 – 13 June 2020
The 2020 Ecsite Conference, hosted by the Kersnikova Institute will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 11-13 June 2020. The conference programme includes three days of conference sessions, two days of pre-conference workshops and a busy networking and social...
ECSA Conference 2020, Trieste, Italy 24-26 May 2020
The annual European conference for citizen and participatory science takes place in Trieste, Italy from 24 to 26 May. Entitled ‘Encounters in Citizen Science”this event will focus on junctures in science: between scientists and citizens; between East and West; between...
First announcement of CS Track to European Citizen Science community
As part of our collaboration with other European Citizen Science projects, we were delighted to be included in the most recent newsletter distributed by the EU-Citizen.Science project team. These newsletters are circulated every 4 months and provide projects with an...
Invitation to join survey into defining citizen science
EU-Citizen.Science and the European Citizen Science Association are trying to develop a short briefing that can be used by research funders, policy bodies, and scientists, to decide which activities, and under which conditions, should be considered to be citizen...
Cluster meeting for European funded citizen science projects in Brussels
Our project coordinators Raul Drachman and Reuma De Groot were delighted to take part in the Citizen Science Cluster Workshop which took place on 12 December in Brussels. Along with representatives from 16 other citizen science projects, they discussed how citizen...
CS Track gets off to a bright start in Leuven
The CS Track team finally got the chance to meet one another face-to-face to work on project planning in Leuven on 9-10 December 2019. This meeting was hosted by partner ATiT in Martin’s Klooster in Leuven and turned out to be quite an intensive meeting. It included...
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