CS Track partner URJC presented a virtual poster and a video presentation entitled “A case study on communication to boost Citizen Science social education: CS Track Community Platform” during the International New Perspectives in Science Education Conference on 18...
The majority (58%) of Zooniverse projects is multi-disciplinary Most of the projects cover between 1 and 5 research areas Citizen science projects incorporate the perspectives of volunteers, practitioners, and scientists (among others) in different fields of...
SciStarter in the the US is organising Citizen Science month in April. The idea is to provide lots of opportunities for people to have a go at citizen science and join a project no matter where they are on the globe. You can find out more on their website where there...
This new call from EU-Citizen.Science provides funding for the development, implementation and testing of 10 training modules on the topic of citizen science. These modules will be uploaded to the Moodle integration of the EU-Citizen.Science platform. The training...
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...
The new BRITEC MOOC “A roadmap to citizen science Education” will provide materials and stories of implementation from innovative citizen science education projects. According to the organisers, Citizen Science Education is based on the assumption that teachers and...
"Biodiversity & Conservation” is the predominant research area on Zooniverse "Remote Sensing” plays a crucial role for research in distributed CS projects Recent studies and experience indicate that environmental sciences are a predominant research topic in the...
A new chapter by Lisa M. Rasmussen on Research Ethics in Citizen Science has been published in the Oxford Handbook of Research. This chapter outlines some of the main ethical issues in citizen science research, which the author describes as a new research approach...
The aim of this report produced by the RETHINK Project is to explore how European citizens make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to do so, the project team conducted 81 in-depth interviews with citizens, during the first wave of the pandemic. You can access...
We have launched our first major international study into citizen science and need your help in encouraging as many people as possible to complete it. The purpose of this survey is to find out about people’s experiences in citizen science projects and activities...
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...
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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