First steps to bird-watching
A manual for the beginner birdwatcher, both online and print versions available. Practical guidelines for fieldwork and also for data sharing and ensuring data quality.
Summary report and strategy recommendations for EU citizen science gateway …
EU BON project has analyzed the citizen science landscape in Europe with regards to biodiversity research and proposes several policy recommendations. One of the recommendations is a Pan-European citizen science …
Webinar: Balancing Citizen Science Data Collection Needs and Privacy Protections
Privacy discussions tend to revolve around the implications of passive collection of individuals’ data. What is often overlooked, however, is the different phenomenon of the active sharing of data within …
Webinar archives: SciStarter
Webinars of SciStarter and Citizen Science association, covering various topics: Citizen Science Month, Resources for Librarians, Citizen Science in Education, How-to webinars.
Citizen-generated data for public policy
This report is an initiative of the research project DigiTranScope: Digital Transformation and Governance of Human Society, which the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has conducted to provide a better understanding …
Sentinel Citizen
The Sentinel Citizen project takes its name from the European Sentinel satellite family. It proposes a new family member, an engaged citizen observing the quality of the living environment on …
Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN sustainable development goals
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a vision for achieving a sustainable future. Reliable, timely, comprehensive, and consistent data are critical for measuring progress towards, and ultimately achieving, the …
EU-Citizen.Science: A Platform for Mainstreaming Citizen Science and Open Science …
Citizen Science (CS) is a prominent field of application for Open Science (OS), and the two have strong synergies, such as: advocating for the data and metadata generated through science …
Citizen Science - Neues Beteiligungsformat für die Forschung zur Agrar-, …
Citizen Science - wörtlich übersetzt "Bürgerforschung" oder "Bürgerwissenschaften" - wird in der Wissenschaft, in den Medien und in der Politik vielfach diskutiert als Ansatz, Bürgerinnen und Bürger in Forschungsprozesse einzubeziehen. …
FAIR data in citizen science projects
This collection consists of a number of resources regarding research data management in citizen science. The resources arises from a project elucidating the role of libraries in citizen science, where one of …
'Sensing the Risk' book launch
On March 15, the ‘Sensing the Risk’ book by Anna Berti Suman was launched, providing an accessible ‘toolbox’ for interested citizen science communities and policy-makers wishing to integrate citizen-sensed data …
Citizen Science SDG Conference
In October 2020, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) with many partners, supported by the European Commission and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), held an international, hybrid conference …
ECSA Conference 2020
In September 2020, the third ECSA Conference Encounters in Citizen Science was held virtually from Trieste (Italy), making it the first online ECSA conference. While this presented some challenges in …
Resource Page Grassroots Citizen Science
How do grassroots citizen scientists in three world regions (East Asia, Western Europe, Central Africa) mobilize data and technologies to tackle environmental threats such as climate change, air pollution, and …
Using citizen science data to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals: …
This article explores whether citizen science data could improve the monitoring of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. While the literature has so far studied this issue from the point …