eu-citizen.science blog

Francisco Sanz, June 23, 2020, 2:05 p.m.

We are delighted to have hosted the first of what we hope will become a series of regular online events enabling the citizen science and learning community to share their work and raise awareness of projects, research and resources with each other and the wider citizen science community. This webinar was initiated by members of the ECSA working group on “Learning and Education in Citizen Science” and the Citizen Science COST Action WG2 - Develop synergies with education.

Tim Woods June 17, 2020, 9:04 a.m.

One aim of the Panelfit project is to increase the quantity and quality of the information available about ethical and legal issues posed by ICTs – to policy-makers, professionals, journalists and the general public. A major output for the latter group will be a citizens’ information pack, which will include a version tailored to the needs of vulnerable groups.

Francisco Sanz, June 11, 2020, 11:38 a.m.

On 27 May 2020, ECSA and EU-Citizen.Science co-hosted a webinar about the new ‘Characteristics of citizen science’ document (you can watch the webinar here). The webinar was sold out, and there was not time to respond to all the questions asked by the audience. In this blog post, the four panellists respond to the questions unanswered on the day.

Francisco Sanz, June 8, 2020, 10:44 a.m.

For those who have a keen interest in puzzles and video games, the FoldIt online platform allows you to contribute to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Lucie Steigleder May 22, 2020, 12:41 p.m.

The first joint webinar EU-Citizen.Science & ECSA is now open for registrations!

Margaret Gold, May 12, 2020, 11:59 a.m.

It has now been one month since we launched the first release of the EU-Citizen.Science platform, and it is a nice moment to let you know how things have been going so far, what we have been doing behind the scenes, and what we’ll be working on next.

Lucie Steigleder May 7, 2020, 12:12 p.m.

ECSA and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) are happy to invite 10 citizen science initiatives to present their activities at the Citizen Science Festival 2020 in Berlin on 14-15 October.

Helen Feord April 30, 2020, 3:56 p.m.

The ‘Characteristics of citizen science’ sets out to address an important question for our field: what is citizen science, and what isn’t? The project to produce these characteristics was led by Muki Haklay, ECSA’s co-vice-chair.

Francisco Sanz, April 30, 2020, 3:38 p.m.

One of the major Work Packages (WP3) within the EU-Citizen.Science project has been to determine how we can ensure that the resources for citizen science projects that are shared and profiled on the platform are indeed of good quality, and valuable to the community. The central task therein has been to develop a framework to identify and facilitate the collection and sharing of high-quality resources and best practices for citizen science. This has meant developing a set of quality criteria, and a system for applying those in a way that supports a well-balanced and sustainable repository of resources.

Helen Feord April 30, 2020, 3:38 p.m.

The ‘Characteristics of citizen science’ sets out to address an important question for our field: what is citizen science, and what isn’t? The project to produce these characteristics was led by Muki Haklay, ECSA’s co-vice-chair. In an interview with ECSA, he explains why this project was necessary, how it developed and what its major outcomes are.

Margaret Gold, April 3, 2020, 1:27 p.m.

We are really pleased to be announcing the launch of the alpha version of the EU- Citizen.Science platform. Our ambitious goal is to become the place to share useful resources about planning and running citizen science initiatives, including tools and guidelines, best practices and training modules.

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, 4:25 p.m.

This is a selection of resources related to the current COVID19 pandemic. It contains links to citizen science and crowdsourcing projects that might be of interest to: citizens wanting to help tackle the virus researchers looking for support during interruptions to their fieldwork parents looking for ideas to support children who are homeschooling anyone looking for useful ways to fill their time while self-isolating.