eu-citizen.science blog

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, 2:04 p.m.

Evaluation is a central part of any project. Deliverable 7.1, the Evaluation & impact framework, written by Teresa Schaefer and Barbara Kieslinger from ZSI, will ensure that EU-Citizen.Science provides evidence of its impact according to a defined set of objectives.

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, 2:02 p.m.

Be part of it! We want to explore existing networks of citizen science. With your help, we want to make the first comprehensive survey of the diverse players in the field of citizen science. Please participate in compiling existing actors and institutions and their networks and show that you are part of it.

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, 2:01 p.m.

Engagement and community-building are central to EU-Citizen.Science’s core mission: to bring together people interested (or potentially interested) in citizen science, while providing a common understanding of the field.

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, 1:59 p.m.

After our article about the status of citizen science in Lithuania, we decided to take a tour of Europe and invite our Advisory Board members to tell us about themselves and their career in citizen science. We start with Dr Henk Mulder from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, 1:50 p.m.

In the second edition of our newsletter, we decided to tackle an issue that is often studied in Citizen Science projects: Pollution. We spoke to Gary Fuller, air pollution scientist at King’s College London, writer for the Guardian and author of the book The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution – and How We Can Fight Back.

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, 1:47 p.m.

The second edition of the EU-Citizen.Science joint newsletter focuses on a “hot” topic that is often studied in Citizen Science projects: Pollution.

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, 1:46 p.m.

Members of the EU-Citizen.Science consortium met in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September for the first periodic project meeting. Held at the Vilnius Tech Park, a beautiful ‘tech campus’ beside the Neris river, it was a chance to share updates on how the eight work packages are progressing, and to plan the next steps together.

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, 1:37 p.m.

A key ingredient for ensuring a successful project is of course to first understand who your stakeholders are, who is supportive and influential in your sucess, and what their needs are. Our first deliverable within the second work package – which is where we build the EU-Citizen.Science platform – has thus been to undergo a Stakeholder Mapping exercise.

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, 12:01 p.m.

As project partners are getting ready for their next meeting (this time in Vilnius), we decided to put the light on the field of citizen science in Lithuania by interviewing our local hosts, Eglė Ramanauskaitė (Human Computation Institute) and Monika Mačiulienė (Mykolas Romeris University, MRU).

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, noon

We are currently building a global citizen science platform to share knowledge and best practice that will also feature custom-made training modules that address the needs of the community.

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, 11:58 a.m.

The first EU-Citizen.Science joint newsletter, Co-creating the European citizen science platform of the future, shares the latest updates on citizen science in Europe by giving you news not just from one, but from four projects at the same time.

Francisco Sanz, March 31, 2020, 11:55 a.m.

On 10-11 April, the European Citizen Science Association – ECSA, (leading the creation of the European platform for citizen science) and Museum für Naturkunde – MfN, (the coordinator of the EU-Citizen.Science project) organised a 24 hour long workshop in Brussels to imagine the European citizen science platform of the future that our project aims to build within the next 3 years.