CROPS: Curating, Replicating, Orchestrating, and Propagating Citizen Science across Europe

Active

from 21/01/2024 until 21/12/2026

The CROPS vision is that the next generation of citizen science activities fully realises its potential at a transnational level, with shared objectives targeted towards EU Mission goals.

CROPS will support the realisation of this vision, through establishing innovative, inclusive and representative mechanisms and associated communities and societal coalitions for the upscaling of citizen science activities.

The lessons learnt through this process and the resources developed will contribute towards Horizon Europe’s ambition to maximise the impact of EU research and innovation funding for European science, economy and the wider society.

Aim

The roots

At its roots, the CROPS concept is fed by learning from the best-practice of existing citizen science projects that have successfully upscaled beyond their original scope. Experiences and knowledge from existing initiatives will be used to inform a thorough screening process to identify citizen science projects with the potential to upscale to a transnational level (WP2).

Growth

CROPS will support the growth of citizen science activities. It will do this by adapting and utilising existing tools that have been developed through previous EU and other projects and activities. Protocols and strategies relating to communication, stakeholder engagement, training resources and design will be developed as part of a user-centred process.

The Fruit

The fruit of the CROPS concept is the creation of transnational citizen science communities and societal coalitions. Shared spaces will be created to foster the creation of communities linked with each of the EU missions, helping to foster ERA-wide alignment of actions and their objectives.