The University of Dundee is offering a course entitled "Citizen Science Projects: How to Make a Difference?" on the Futurelearn platform. In this course, you’ll discover many different types of projects and how to get involved. You’ll find out how to lead a project,...
The INCENTIVE project aims to demonstrate the potential of citizen science through the co-creation, establishment and assessment of Citizen Science Hubs in four EU Universities: University of Twente (NL), Autonomous University of Barcelona (ES), Aristotle University...
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...
Of the 12 different tools and platforms that are used in citizen science activities, the top three were websites, smartphones and databases. Respondents to a survey conducted by the CS Track project indicated that they used technology primarily for gathering...
Citizen Social Science School: Social Dimensions in Citizen Science will take place online from 13-23 September. The main goal of this event is to offer academic researchers a common space and a shared time to reflect, discuss, learn, and receive practical...
This report presents the outcomes of the 2020-2021 EUA Open Science Survey and provides evidence-based recommendations for institutions, researchers, research funders and policymakers on the transition towards Open Science. The 2020-2021 EUA Open Science Survey...
OS Fair 2021 aims to bring together and empower open science communities and services; to identify common practices related to open science; to see what are the best synergies to deliver and operate services that work for many; and to bring experiences from all around...
Although the results show that there is some talk around educational aspects, Twitter is not mainly used to support educational activities in general. The conversation arises from certain users that are retweeted a lot of times, but it seems that no interaction comes...
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...
The Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) in the UK has published a new report entitled "Future Directions for Citizen Science & Public Policy" in June, 2021. Over the past year CSaP has brought together policymakers and academics to discuss citizen science —...
A technical report was recently published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, on Citizen Science Strategies and Initiatives in Europe. This report provides a synthetic summary of the findings stemming from three...
The EU-Citizen.Science project team is organising a three-part workshop series on 21 June, 29 June, and 6 July. The events are free for the whole community, however the number of participants is limited to 50, therefore we encourage you to register here in advance....
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