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The News Evaluator – Nyhetsvärderaren
In the “News Evaluator” mass experiment, researchers and pupils studied the type of news in young people’s online news feeds. Using a digital tool, pupils categorised and evaluated the credibility …
The Acoustic Experiment – Akustikförsöket
In this Scandinavian citizen science initiative, 59 primary school classes in Sweden and 689 classes in Denmark took part in measuring the acoustic properties of their classrooms. In Sweden, the …
The Best-Before-Date Experiment
Approximately 1,800 Swedish pupils helped researchers at SLU (the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) study how different food items were stored in refrigerators in Swedish homes, and at what temperature. …
The Risk Picture
In The Risk Picture, 722 Swedish pupils helped researchers at the Risk and Crisis Research Centre (RCR) at the Mid Sweden University collect images of environments that they associated with …
The Vegetable Experiment
Over one day, approximately 5,500 participating pupils recorded how much fruit and vegetables they ate, both at school and at home. Through the mass experiment, pupils got the opportunity to …
The Tea Bag Experiment
When dead plants decompose in the soil, the decomposition process emits carbon dioxide, a gas which plays an important role in global warming. In order to be able to make …
The Notice Board
What is the function of the physical notice board in the digital age? Who is saying what? And why? These are examples of questions that researchers from the University of …
The Star-Spotting Experiment
Our use of artificial light has dramatically changed the environment in large parts of the world. Scientific studies have shown unexpected and worrying effects on the biology of many organisms …
RiuNet
RiuNet is an interactive educational tool that guides any citizen in the assessment of the hydrological and ecological status of Mediterranean Rivers. At the same time, it is a Citizen …
MammalNet: Watch Wildlife for Science
MammalNet is a partnership between different scientific and academic institutions in Europe and local science fans, working together on wildlife research, management, and conservation.
With your help, together we can …
Looking for Cowslips
Participants are expected to observe the patterns of heterostyly in cowslips. The cowslip (Primula veris) is a heterostylous plant – it means that the plant can have one …
STEP CHANGE: Infectious Disease Outbreak Preparedness
Infectious Disease Outbreak Preparedness
Participatory action research and popular epidemiology have been adopted in different types of disease outbreaks that have hit and still hit diverse geographical regions, such as …
URwatair
Citizens are involved in urban rainwater monitoring as well as in urban air pollution monitoring, the latter on the basis of various indoor and outdoor scenarios, by employing low cost …
Heritage Quest
In this project we investigate the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, a heavily forested region in the Netherlands. Over the course of 2019, Heritage Quest has investigated the Veluwe with spectacular results (see …
iSpex
"Measurements by thousands of citizen scientists in the Netherlands using their smartphones and the iSPEX add-on are delivering accurate data on dust particles in the atmosphere that add valuable information …
Plastic Spotter
Download the CrowdWater app and register. Observe a canal or river, preferably from a bridge, and add your measurement location to the map. Share a picture of the water and …