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Initiation
The Guidelines on Behaviour & Policy Change aim to guide those interested in identifying, understanding, and enhancing policy and behavioural changes resulting from citizen science initiatives. They thus target those …
This document provides all the keys you need for you and your classes to join in our citizen science programme. Thanks to rigorous protocols adapted for school children ages 3 …
X-Polli:Nation is a Citizen Science project on pollinating insects, developed by OPAL (led by Imperial College, London), in collaboration with several UK partners and the Maremma Natural History Museum in Italy. …
"This free course, Citizen science and global biodiversity, deals with the importance of biodiversity and explores how anyone can contribute to and be involved in identifying and recording wildlife, as …
ECSA and EU-Citizen.Science co-hosted a webinar about the recently (2020) published ‘Characteristics of citizen science’. This document is the output of a community-based effort to outline what can be characterized …
This document attempts to represent a wide range of opinions in an inclusive way, to allow for different types of projects and programmes, where context-specific criteria can be set.The characteristics …
Citizen science is a flexible concept which can be adapted and applied within diverse situations and disciplines. The statements below were developed by the ‘Sharing best practice and building capacity’ …
The Citizen Science Toolkit is aimed at researchers and scientists working in the fields of biodiversity or environmental sciences who are involved or have an interest in involving citizens in …
X-Polli:Nation is a Citizen Science project on pollinating insects, developed by OPAL (led by Imperial College, London), in collaboration with several UK partners and the Maremma Natural History Museum in Italy. …
Project descriptions, often found on citizen science platforms, are the gateway for citizen scientists to engage with projects. They provide the first glimpse into what a selected project is about, …
Met het Datacharter voor Citizen Science biedt Scivil, het Vlaamse kenniscentrum citizen science (CS), een leidraad aan om bij een citizen-scienceproject tot goed gedocumenteerde data te komen.
Het charter is …
Peer-reviewed article published in Nature Sustainability on the potential of citizen science to contribute data for monitoring progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The paper grew out of …
Dit draaiboek bevat tips en richtlijnen voor lokale besturen om met citizen science aan de slag te gaan.
Dit draaiboek is een initiatief van Vlaams minister Bart Somers en het Agentschap …
Formal university course on a variety of different citizen science topics from theory to practice of citizen science: requires registration.
Recent technological and societal advancements are allowing an increasing number of citizens to participate in citizen science. At the same time, government institutions are adopting data-driven decision-making practices, are exploring …
With the Data Charter for Citizen Science, Scivil, the Flemish knowledge centre for citizen science (CS), provides a guide to achieving well-documented data in a citizen-science project.
The charter is …
This handbook is a practical guide on how to successfully design and run co-created Citizen Science projects, with some specific tips for practitioners in Zurich. The handbook is organized in …
Much can be at stake depending on the choice of words used to describe citizen science, because terminology impacts how knowledge is developed. Citizen science is a quickly evolving field …
Planning
This guide was designed to support practitioners running Community and Citizen Science programmes and similar informal science learning activities. It shares the findings and recommendations of the international LEARN CitSci …
Im Rahmen des Citizen Science Network Austria (https://www.citizen-science.at/netzwerk) wurde im Februar 2018 die Arbeitsgruppe Offene Biodiversitätsdatenbanken in Citizen Science-Projekten ins Leben gerufen. Die Ziele dieser AG sind (I) die Formulierung …
The platform Österreich forscht (www.citizen-science.at) was founded in 2014 with the objectives of (1) connecting citizen science actors in Austria, (2) providing the broadest possible overview of citizen science projects …
This guide has been designed to support the running of BioBlitzes and similar wildlife events in the UK. It is aimed at those running a large-scale event but a BioBlitz …
This Handbook for Citizen Science Quality Assurance and Documentation is for organizations that are starting or growing a citizen science project, and where transparency in the scientific methods for collecting …
Over the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the diversity and scale of citizen science. This guide aims to support people already involved in citizen science, and …
"Would you like to understand the environment and help create change? A citizen science project or observatory is the ideal way to explore environmental issues, take action and become a …
On March 15, the ‘Sensing the Risk’ book by Anna Berti Suman was launched, providing an accessible ‘toolbox’ for interested citizen science communities and policy-makers wishing to integrate citizen-sensed data …
Manual on legal questions in Citizen Science projects
In a participatory process in 2020 a guide for legal issues concerning insurance coverage, data protection and copyright was created at Museum …
According to health research and the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution in urban areas leads to 3 million premature deaths annually. This policy brief presents a framework for organizing a …
Connect people and ideas, harness the power of collective knowledge and act together!
Congratulations! You have decided to join forces to tackle a social challenge; that is great! This Co-Design …
The CitiMeasure Guidelines on Competencies for Digital Inclusion aim to advance the understanding of the issue of 'competencies' for inclusion in increasingly digitised citizen science initiatives. One of the main …
NEWSERA is a european funded project. NEWSERA's main goal was to analyse and evaluate the complexities of science communication in citizen science (CS). The project was devised around the citizen science …
Execution
"Protecting the ocean is essential for the sustainability of the planet. Oceans provide food and livelihood for human populations, host vast biodiversity and ecosystems and provide climate regulatory services. However, …
Guide to help design and implement a citizen science project relating to biodiversity or the environment
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Citizen science is the active engagement of citizens in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data for scientific purposes. Due to its multisectorial nature, it can play a role at …
FLORA INCOGNITA - DISCOVER THE DIVERSITY OF NATURE
What's in bloom? With the Flora Incognita app, this question is quickly answered. Take a picture of a plant, find out its …
The QA/QC Project team of the CSA Metadata Working Group has compiled a compendium of guidance documents, manuals, and workbooks produced for citizen science. The resulting spreadsheet is a treasure-trove …
Citizen science is the active engagement of citizens in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data for scientific purposes. Due to its multisectorial nature, it can play a role at …
The European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN) Citizen Science activities aim at bringing together people, scientists and policy makers in an effort to monitor and control invasive alien species (IAS) …
This document presents a report on activities to promote and analyse citizen science in Spain during 2016, with the aim of increasing knowledge and vision of citizen science, based on …
Impact & Evaluation
The report on the conceptual, innovative, evaluation and ethical framework for youth citizen social science (CSS) describes the conceptual framework for youth involved in CSS in the YouCount project. Moreover, …
Created by Ecsite, the network of science engagement organisations (https://www.ecsite.eu/), Workrooms provide science engagement professionals with a short series of online talks, group discussions and workshops, and even …
Created by Ecsite, the network of science engagement organisations (https://www.ecsite.eu/), Workrooms provide science engagement professionals with a short series of online talks, group discussions and workshops, and even …
Created by Ecsite, the network of science engagement organisations (https://www.ecsite.eu/), Workrooms provide science engagement professionals with a short series of online talks, group discussions and workshops, and even …
In September 2020, the third ECSA Conference Encounters in Citizen Science was held virtually from Trieste (Italy), making it the first online ECSA conference. While this presented some challenges in …
In January 2018 the European Commission launched a study to examine the influence of citizen science on environmental policies and sustainable development. The study was carried out by the French …
Citizen science (CS) is increasingly becoming a focal point for public policy to provide data for decision-making and to widen access to science. Yet beyond these two understandings, CS engages …
Since first being introduced in the mid 1990s, the term “citizen science”—the intentional engagement of the public in scientific research—has seen phenomenal growth as measured by the number of projects …
Citizen science is increasingly upheld with the potential to underpin all aspects of the environmental policy process. However, to date, contributions of citizen science to environmental decision-making remain sparse and …
Little did Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other ‘gentlemen scientists’ know, when they were making their scientific discoveries, that some centuries later they would inspire a new field of scientific …
In today’s knowledge-based society we are experiencing a rise in citizen science activities. Citizen science goals include enhancing scientific knowledge generation, contributing to societally relevant questions, fostering scientific literacy in …