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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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
Introduction to Citizen Science for Journalists
This free course will introduce you to core aspects of citizen science, the activities that fall under it, issues that are frequently discussed about citizen science (data quality and motivation), …
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 …
MOOC "Have you seen an alien?"
The European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN) Citizen Science activities aim at bringing together people, scientists and policy makers in an effort to monitor and control invasive alien species (IAS) …
Citizen Science in Your Community: A Guide to Getting Involved
This guide is aimed at anyone who would like to know how to try out citizen science in their community. It explains the benefits of citizen science, notes the reliance …
A Guide to using Social Media in your Citizen Science …
A report on the importance of social media use for citizen science, some descriptions of types of social media, how to use social media to achieve such goals as spreading …
Citizen Science – Motivations, Progression and Accreditation
This report provides an insight into Citizen Science motivations, progression routes and investigates whether formal accreditation would benefit Citizen Science participants and add value to the data collected. It looks …
Lessons from citizen science for community engagement practice
A lively blogpost which may be very useful to the citizen science practitioner interested in creating a community of citizen scientists. It emphasises the importance of people building something together, …
Citizen Science and the Environment: Ideas for your Duke of …
This guide aims to provide a resource for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award participants and leaders, to help to increase knowledge and awareness of citizen science and the environment, and …
Citizen Science for everyone: A guide for teachers and support …
A Toolkit to help teachers build Citizen Science into their lessons and other school activities