Report of Observatory of citizen science in Spain 2017
During 2017, Spain has catalogued 177 citizen science projects and actors distributed throughout the country and covering a wide range of branches of science. This set, although still incomplete, gives …
Socientize Green Paper on Citizen Science in Europe
The SOCIENTIZE Consortium is coordinating an ongoing public consultation and debate about the potential role of Citizen Science in Europe. As an intermediate result, this Green Paper presents the major …
Vigilantes del aire
The Didactic Unit that we present to you is a proposal for work in the classroom, from Infant to Secondary, air pollution to through the citizen science project https://vigilantesdelaire.ibercivis.es.
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Understanding the citizen science landscape for environmental policy: an assessment …
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 …
Citizen science for environmental policy. Development of an EU-wide inventory …
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 …
Report of Observatory of citizen science in Spain 2016
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 …
9 Guides on citizen science and commons
Didactic guides whose objective is to promote research projects to understand and defend the common goods. The guides want to promote among the citizens the production of original and contrasted …
Tree Tools for Schools
A collection of interactive activities, spotting sheets and downloadable resources for engaging children with the environment, especially targetted at the classroom and school environment.
Laikusok a tudományos kutatásokért? (Laymen for scientific research?)
This blog post aims to briefly introduce the concept of citizen science to a Hungarian audience. It follows the four levels of engagement that Haklay (2012) put forward as crowdsourcing, …
Multiple Scales, Multiple Approaches - Toward Meaningful Engagement in Europe
EKLIPSE aims to encourage informed societal debate on environmental policy issues at the EU level using engagement methods such as science cafés. A science café on Nature Based Solutions (NBS) …
A Framework for Articulating and Measuring Individual Learning Outcomes from …
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 for all. A Guide for citizen science practitioners
edia. This guide describes how citizen science is practiced in Germany and how this participatory approach can be used in different research disciplines and issue areas – such as education, …
Citizen Science: A Developing Tool for Expanding Science Knowledge and …
Citizen science enlists the public in collecting large quantities of data across an array of habitats and locations over long spans of time. Citizen science projects have been remarkably successful …
Maximising the benefits from Citizen Science for monitoring the environment: …
The UKEOF workshop titled “Maximising the benefits from Citizen Science for monitoring the environment” was held at Austin Court in Birmingham on 24th January 2018. The workshop was attended by …
Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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 …
Citizen science can improve conservation science, natural resource management, and …
Citizen science has advanced science for hundreds of years, contributed to many peer-reviewed articles, and informed land management decisions and policies across the United States. Over the last 10 years, …