Inclusiveness and Diversity in Citizen Science
"An ‘inclusive citizen science’ practice encourages engagement from all members of society, whatever their social status, sociocultural origin, gender, religious affiliation, literacy level, or age. In this chapter we will …
Citizen Science Project Builder
The Citizen Science Project Builder is a web-based tool that allows researchers, students, and all members of the public to create and run data-analysis Citizen Science (CS) projects.
The CS …
Data Quality Resource Compendium by the CSA Data and Metadata …
The QA/QC Project team of the CSA Metadata Working Group has compiled a compendium of guidance documents, manuals, and workbooks produced for citizen science. The resulting spreadsheet is a treasure-trove …
Creating a citizens’ information pack on ethical and legal issues …
This is the report from a workshop co-hosted by ECSA, COST Action 15212, EU-Citizen.Science, Panelfit and ICM-CSIC, which explored the ethical and legal issues around ICTs (e.g. privacy, data rights) …
OdourCollect App
OdourCollect is the open App to report odour observations. Have you perceived nice or bad smells in your neighbourhood? Are you affected by odour pollution? We have the best sensor …
Citizen-Based Air Quality Monitoring: The Impact on Individual Citizen Scientists …
Air pollution is a serious problem that is causing increasing concern among European citizens. It is responsible for more than 400,000 premature deaths in Europe each year and considerably damages …
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 …
Citizen science in Greece for the environmental sector and beyond
Citizen science (CS) may be understood as a scientific domain as well as a research method that involves non-experts (citizens) in one or more parts of the life cycle of …
Cities at night
The Didactic Unit that we present in these pages is a proposal to work on the classroom with third and fourth year students secondary, the location of sources of the …
X-Polli:Nation IT
X-Polli:Nation is a Citizen Science project on pollinating insects, developed by OPAL (led by Imperial College, London), in collaboration with several UK partners and the Maremma Natural History Museum in Italy. …
Citizen Science Network Austria Arbeitsgruppe für Offene Biodiversitätsdatenbanken in Citizen …
Im Rahmen des Citizen Science Network Austria (https://www.citizen-science.at/netzwerk) wurde im Februar 2018 die Arbeitsgruppe Offene Biodiversitätsdatenbanken in Citizen Science-Projekten ins Leben gerufen. Die Ziele dieser AG sind (I) die Formulierung …
EU-Citizen.Science Workroom: Citizen science clinic - 1st session - Inspiring …
Created by Ecsite, the network of science engagement organisations (https://www.ecsite.eu/), Workrooms provide science engagement professionals with a short series of online talks, group discussions and workshops, and even …
D-NOSES MOOC on Odour Pollution for the Public
This MOOC invites you to explore the not so-well-known problem of odour pollution. During this ‘journey’ you will have the opportunity to: - understand what generates the problem of odour …
Socientize White Paper on Citizen Science in Europe
The SOCIENTIZE Project aims at improving the understanding and uptake of the impacts associated with Citizen Science. These concepts are fuzzy, since amateurs engage in research, researchers group themselves in …
Citizen Science science for everyone: A guide for teachers and …
This guide is a toolkit to help teachers build Citizen Science into their lessons and other school activities. The guidelines aim to increase opportunities for pupils to learn outdoors, get …
Guide to Citizen Science - developing, implementing and evaluating citizen …
Over the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the diversity and scale of citizen science. This guide aims to support people already involved in citizen science, and …