Watch the presentation of the annual report on the situation of citizen science in Spain in 2019/2020.
Daniel Lisbona
Dec. 15, 2020, 12:26 p.m.
Thursday, December 17, 2020, live broadcast in the Ibercivis Foundation YouTube Channel. From 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
https://www.youtube.com/c/ibercivisciencia
The Observatory of Citizen Science in Spain is a project of the Ibercivis Foundation that is carried out in collaboration with the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) -Ministry of Science and Innovation. Since the launch of the project in 2016, a wide variety of tasks have been carried out to recognize, make visible and promote citizen science in Spain, as well as research on the same concept and its development.
Together with the representatives of Ibercivis, the event will feature the interventions of Carmen Castresana, General Director of Research Planning of the Ministry of Science and Innovation in Spain; Colombe Warin, Advisor for Research and Innovation Projects in the Horizon 2020 Program of the European Commission and César García, promoter member of Coronavirus Makers. Francisco Sanz, executive director of the Ibercivis Foundation, will introduce the event and the different speakers, and Maite Pelacho, coordinator of the Observatory, will present the different sections of the Report with the most relevant results from both the panorama of citizen science, in Spain and in its European and international context, as well as the same activity of the Observatory.
The work carried out by the Observatory is a work of co-creation with each and every one of the people who do citizen science in Spain, whatever their role. Many of these people also collaborate directly in the development of the Observatory, for example by providing educational or other resources, participating in colloquia, writing articles where they share their vision and experience (in this same section), participating in interviews, or performing tasks of communication and dissemination. Therefore, without being a citizen science project - in the sense that its objective is not to find results from a research question - the Observatory is, more and more, a participatory project in which we understand cooperation as a fundamental key. As in the other Ibercivis projects - those yes, citizen science projects - we seek to work in a collaborative way, in which each person contributes and receives, in which we all enrich ourselves by building or improving the various areas in which we operate , including systems - institutional or not - of science and technology, or of social and humanistic research, or of education.
Thus, on Thursday, December 17 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., anyone interested in citizen science is invited to participate in this event.