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SPIN-CITY
Have you ever walked around the city in the summer? Then you know it can get very hot because of all the asphalt and the concrete that retains the heat! …
Street Spectra
Turn your smartphone into a scientific instrument to analyze lamps colors and their spectra using a diffraction grating.
The Tea Bag Experiment - Tepåseförsöket
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 Best-Before-Date Experiment (Bäst före-försöket)
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 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 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 Vegetable Experiment - Grönsaksförsöket
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 Autumn Experiment – Höstförsöket
Climate change is impacting when the growing season in nature begins in the spring and when it ends in the autumn. Previous research has shown that changes to the climate …
The Ladybird Experiment - Nyckelpigeförsöket
Humans are affecting nature in different ways and threatening the crucial diversity of plants and animals. To know how to best to tackle the problem, we need more knowledge about …
The Risk Picture – Riskbilden
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 Notice Board - Anslagstavlan
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 …
Svinnkollen (The Food Waste Experiment)
Can more – and better – information result in less food being wasted? Researchers will be investigating this together with pupils and teachers across the whole of Sweden in the Food Waste …
The Star-Spotting Experiment (Stjärnförsöket)
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 …
WeCount - Telraam
WeCount enables citizens to quantify local road transport (cars, large vehicles, active travel modes and speed) with an automated sensor "Telraam" (www.telraam.net).
The objective of the project is to produce scientific knowledge …
Zeit.shift
A citizen humanities project for the preservation, development and communication of the cultural and textual heritage of the historical region of Tyrol.
WeObserve
WeObserve is an H2020 coordination and support action (2017-2020) delivering the first European-wide knowledge platform of Citizen Observatories (COs) to share best practices and to identify and address challenges to …