Manual to plan and perform School-Community projects
The Open Schooling approach leads to a sustainable networking system between schools and their communities. Open Schooling asks private individuals, schools - students and teachers alike - companies, non-profit organisation …
Citizens Count Brochure and Activity Sheets
This booklet and its accompanying activity sheets are designed to help teachers with students aged 10-14 foster student environmental citizenship by engaging in the annual bird count and participating in citizen science. …
senseBox - Toolkit for digital education, citizen science and environmental …
The modular senseBox kits (senseBox:home, senseBox:edu, senseBox:mini and CO2 lights) are used in digital education, citizen science and professional environmental data collection. An easy-to-program microcontroller is …
Citizen Science and Social Innovation: Mutual Relations, Barriers, Needs, and …
Social innovations are usually understood as new ideas, initiatives, or solutions that make it possible to meet the challenges of societies in fields such as social security, education, employment, culture, …
Citizen Science Toolkit for biodiversity scientists
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 …
Citizen science to support progress of the SDGs and Cos4Cloud's …
This policy brief has been produced in the context of the Cos4Cloud project. It describes some of the capabilities and benefits of citizen science which can support progress towards …
Toolkit for AQ monitoring
A step-by-step guide to monitor nitrogen dioxide using diffusion tubes. It includes printable templates to facilitate the data collection using pen and paper. You can add your results to the Air …
Anna Berti Suman - The Sensing for Justice Project
On 12 and 13 October 2021, the SensJus project convened a workshop on Health-Citizen Science Dilemmas under the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), at the Brocher Foundation, Geneva. …
Workshop: Engaging the society beyond data collection
The challenges of ocean monitoring require data from everywhere at all times, we need to involve society in all steps of the process to achieve the information necessary to implement …
What are the achievements of the citizen observatories in Cos4Cloud?
Citizen science projects provide an opportunity to learn science, share knowledge, and have fun while positively impacting society; from helping researchers to get a lot of biodiversity and environmental data to influencing environmental policies or monitoring the …
Monitoring plant biodiversity with Pl@ntNet
One of the Cos4Cloud partners, the Environmental Education Lab (EEL), a research center based at the Department of Educational Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), organized …
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Lessons from the LandSense project – ECSA & EU-Citizen.Science Webinar …
LandSense is a Horizon 2020 project that started in September 2016. It aims to build a Citizen Observatory and Innovation Marketplace for Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring. This project …
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Citizen science to monitor landscape changes – ECSA Webinar
This is an ECSA webinar that took place on the 7th of December 2017 with researchers from IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) including two talks: (1) “Mobilizing citizens …
Vigie Nature Ecole. Participant's kit
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 …
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The Diversity of Participants in Environmental Citizen Science
"Reported benefits of environmental citizen science include the collection of large volumes of data, knowledge and skills gained by participants, local action, and policy influence. However, it is unclear how …
Roadmap for the uptake of the Citizen Observatories' knowledge base
WeObserve brought together several Citizen Observatory projects to share and consolidate knowledge and identify best practices. Many of the insights gained have been synthesised into this detailed research and innovation roadmap …