eu-citizen.science blog

Simona Cerrato Jan. 9, 2023, 11 a.m.

The newly released video wraps up two years of work and co-creation with groups of teenagers in four European countries for the project SEEDS, dedicated to healthy lifestyles.

Simona Cerrato Dec. 27, 2022, 7 a.m.

The European Citizen Science project has the overall objective to widen and strengthen the citizen science community in Europe. We have decided to elaborate a strategic communication and dissemination plan that will guide the European Citizen Science project for the next 4 years and beyond. Here we share its essence.

Andrea Troncoso Troncoso Quilaqueo, Dec. 20, 2022, 12:10 p.m.

A call for new and ongoing citizen science initiatives, plus the European Union Prize for Citizen Science launch, is on the agenda for January 2023!

Baiba Pruse April 20, 2022, 3 p.m.

Citizen science, often neglected when discussing environmental governance, is a key in today’s world progressing towards sustainable transitions. The blog takes its readers on a fascinating journey about citizen science for a sustainable environment.

Simona Cerrato April 7, 2022, 4 p.m.

Marisa Ponti, Professor in the Division of Learning, Communication and IT, in the Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, recently published “Human-machine-learning integration and task allocation in citizen science” (Humanities and Social Sciences Communication, 9 February 2022), together with Alena Seredko. The study analyzed and explored the complex and challenging area of human-machine learning integration in citizen science projects.

Simona Cerrato March 28, 2022, 10 a.m.

Health and Education are intrinsically related: improvements in education produce better health outcomes and vice versa. This is one of the focus of SEEDS (https://seedsmakeathons.com/), a project done by teenagers for teenagers based on citizen science to create new experiments for healthy lifestyles.

Simona Cerrato March 9, 2022, 10 a.m.

Why does citizen science engage scientists and citizens? How do we as citizen science practitioners and researchers make sure that citizen science will continue to be engaging — and engaged in the creation of new scientific knowledge, while also addressing issues of public concern?

Alice Sheppard March 1, 2022, 12:35 p.m.

The HEIDI project invites you to a series of short webinars, talks and a roundtable on digital action - citizen science, makeathons and hackathons.

CS Track project Feb. 28, 2022, 3:10 p.m.

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed an opportunity to improve the outcomes of citizen science in response to emerging challenges.

Simona Cerrato Feb. 8, 2022, 7 p.m.

The power of interdisciplinarity can manifest itself in a striking way in the emerging field of citizen science in the social sciences and humanities. Citizen science has found and still finds its most rooted and widespread expressions in the natural sciences. Yet the social sciences and humanities are gaining ground and increasing recognition.

Simona Cerrato Jan. 24, 2022, 2:35 p.m.

Citizen science is one of the most promising approached of public engagement in science and technology as it allows for the creation of authentic and lasting alliances between research and society, and its potential for education are now being explored. Yet on this path, many challenges must be faced. What can we learn from the experiences until now?

EU-Citizen.Science Jan. 18, 2022, 10:50 a.m.

Nine projects are still at their beginning and will be present in the citizen science landscape until at least 2023.