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GEOVACUI-2: Citizen Science for knowledge depopulation (didactic unit)
This Story Map has been designed following a didactic unit approach to be reproduced by teachers in their classrooms. It addresses the phenomenon of depopulation through the Citizen Science GEOVACUI …
Citizen Science Starter Kit
The ‘citizen science starter kit’ provides information to researchers who are new to citizen science and who are considering initiating a citizen science research (project), regardless of the scientific discipline. …
Volunteer engagement, management and care
This free course is aimed at anyone who will spend time interacting with citizen scientists. This course will introduce you to a variety of means to promote effective communication between …
Leading a ‘Train the Trainer’ workshop
This is a free course for citizen science practitioners looking to employ ‘Train the Trainer’ within their project or activity. Train the Trainer (TTT) is a learning method that equips …
Social media management for citizen science projects
This course is designed to guide citizen science practitioners on how to take the most advantage of social media platforms for their citizen science projects. Prior experience with social media …
Evaluation and Impact Assessment in Citizen Science Projects
This free course gives an overview of different approaches to evaluation and impact assessment for citizen science projects and presents a set of instruments and how these have been applied …
Basic regulations and ethics for citizen science
This free course will provide you with basic knowledge about citizen scientists’ rights and obligations in gathering data, analysing data, and co-authoring research papers.
In this module, a special emphasis …
Doing citizen science as open science: what, why and how
This is a high-level course introducing the ethical imperative for conducting citizen science as open science, including what open science is and how its outputs and processes can be incorporated …
Empowerment through co-designed Citizen Science in education
This free course provides insights into how citizen science may empower participants and favour democracy. It also shows practical ways of including citizen science in higher education programmes in order …
Research integrity, ethics and the SDGs within the context of …
This course provides an introduction to the very important idea of research integrity which we link to ethics, the Sustainable Development Goals and to Citizen Science. On completion of this …
Citizen Science in Schools: schools as agents of community well-being …
This course is designed to guide educators through the process of incorporating citizen science in their daily school practices, in a relevant and organic way, creating meaningful learning experiences for …
Training programs to build capacity for collaborative innovation processes
The EU Horizon 2020 research project „RiConfigure“ investigated what makes collaborative innovation processes between the public sector, industry, academia and civil society successful.
The project developed three training programs based …
Citizen Science and Storytelling
A presentation about the value of storytelling in Citizen Science. It takes us through several viewpoints and tools you can use to tell your story, considering the needs of the …
Science Communication MOOC
This course explains why science communication is important and what it looks like in practice. It also teaches you the basic concepts and fundamental skills you need to master science …
Libraries as Community Hubs for Citizen Science
SciStarter and the National Library of Medicine in the USA have produced a short training module on turning your library into a community hub for citizen science. The module covers …
Foundations of Citizen Science
The Foundations of Citizen Science module (available in English and Spanish) will help you learn the basics, participate in projects, and make the most of SciStarter. (Librarians: …