eu-citizen.science blog

Lucie Steigleder, July 24, 2020, 4:10 p.m.

Jessica Hafetz Mirman from the University of Edinburgh worked on the elaboration of a Citizen Science app during the lockdown period.

Lucie Steigleder, July 19, 2020, 12:03 p.m.

Chris Lintott, co-founder of Zooniverse, shares how the platform had to adapt to the COVID pandemic.

Margaret, July 17, 2020, 8:25 a.m.

It is part of our mandate within the EU-Citizen.Science project to take stock of the vast number of existing tools, guidelines and other materials available in and for citizen science, and to highlight, curate and organise those that are high quality and represent best practice in the field.

Francisco, July 10, 2020, 8:22 a.m.

Citizen science could help track progress towards all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An IIASA-led study, for the first time, comprehensively analyzed the current and potential contribution of citizen science data to monitor the SDGs at the indicator level.

Francisco, July 7, 2020, 8:33 a.m.

The REINFORCE project (Research Infrastructures FOR Citizens in Europe), supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 SWAFS programme, has launched its new fully-developed website.

Francisco, 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, 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, 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, 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.