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ECSA Conference 2022 in Berlin: Deadline extended until May 31.
Last days to submit your contribution to the ECSA2022 conference on Planetary Health. The concept of planetary health is based on the understanding that human health and human civilization depend on thriving natural systems and the sustainable stewardship of those natural systems. This demands not only knowledge and commitment of health and environmental sciences, but inter- and transdisciplinary efforts from all research fields and societal and political actors.
Register here
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Anniversary of LERU
Barbara Kieslinger, ECSA’s board member, will be representing ECSA at the 20th anniversary event of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). Here is a link to the session where she will be speaking.
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The ten principles of citizen Science
This document is now available in Ukrainian, thanks to Serhii Nazarovets from the Borys Grichenko Kyiv University.
We wish to share the message that Serhii writes to us by delivering the translation: “As a result of the war, we already have significant losses in research infrastructure, so perhaps national Citizen Science projects will help our scientists and PhD students return to research. So far it's just a dream, but who knows…”
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Farmland citizen science training
The first training in citizen science in farmlands by the EU-supported project FRAMEwork (Farmer Clusters for Realising Agrobiodiversity Management across Ecosystems) is taking place in Luxembourg on May 3, 2022. The training is for project facilitators from ten farmer ‘clusters’ that are located across Europe from Spain to Latvia. The training will use BioBlitz and iNaturalist and it follows immediately after the CityNatureChallenge in Luxembourg.
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New Spatial Data Recording for Citizen Science Apps
In many Citizen Science projects, working with a spatial dimension is at the core of the research - from transects to habitat monitoring. A new feature for all Apps on the SPOTTERON Citizen Science Platform makes it easy for users and researchers to record spatial data in a project. Learn more about the new Spatial Data Recording Toolkit here
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New Open Access e-book: Citizen Science and Social Innovation: Mutual Relations, Barriers, Needs, and Development Factors
Social innovations are usually understood as new ideas, initiatives, or solutions that make it possible to meet the challenges of societies in fields such as social security, education, employment, culture, health, environment, housing, and economic development. On the one hand, many citizen science activities serve to achieve scientific as well as social and educational goals. Thus, these actions are opening an arena for introducing social innovations. On the other hand, some social innovations are further developed, adapted, or altered after the involvement of scientist-supervised citizens (laypeople or volunteers) in research and with the use of the citizen science tools and methods such as action research, crowdsourcing, and community-based participatory research.
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Citizen science for a vulnerable group: deaf and hard of hearing adults
“Social Inclusion and participation of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adults in Citizen Science for Climate Change” is a new EU-funded project that started in February 2022. The project addresses the inclusion and active participation of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community in matters of climate change.
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Teaching Green
Teaching Green is an international project that aims to support the competencies and skills of teachers (of students aged 10-16) in the implementation of practical environmental education which raises the awareness of climate change, its impacts and mitigation actions.Our objective is to support critical thinking, digital skills, sense of social responsibility for local environment and foster the environmental behavior of students as citizen science.
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How Networks of Citizen Observatories Can Increase the Quality and Quantity of Citizen-Science-Generated Data Used to Monitor SDG Indicators.
Woods, S.M.; Daskolia, M.; Joly, A.; Bonnet, P.; Soacha, K.; Liñan, S.; Woods, T.; Piera, J.; Ceccaroni, L. Sustainability 2022, 14, 4078. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074078
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Connecting researchers, developers and citizen scientists in a unique mobile app environment
This EOSC in practice story presents MOBIS, a service developed by DDQ: Pocket Science within the Cos4Cloud project and that is now available on the EOSC Portal Catalogue and Marketplace.
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.New Open Access e-book: Citizen Science and Social Innovation: Mutual Relations, Barriers, Needs, and Development Factors
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For a full list of upcoming citizen science events, visit EU-Citizen.Science.
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ECSA conference in Berlin (5-8 October)
The call for proposals is now open until April 30, 2022. We look forward to seeing you in Berlin.
All info and submissions are available here:
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Webinar: Citizen Science for Peace
This month’s Webinar will be on Citizen Science for peace and will take place on May 24 at 17:00 CEST. Register here
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ROSiE
On the 7th of April the 4th meeting of the cross-Swafs Stakeholder Forum for Responsible Open Science took place online. These are great opportunities for different projects to network, motivate and influence each other.
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eu-citizen.science
In case you missed it, we have been publishing articles on the blog of EU-Citizen.Science. Read up some reflections from the first course on CS and local ecological knowledge at the University of Iceland and on interviews on artificial intelligence and CS and on engagement in CS among others.
Do you want to share citizen science events that might be relevant to the community? Then register on EU-Citizen.Science and share events with the community of platform users via the “New submission” button at the top right corner once logged in!
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SOCIO-BEE
SOCIO-BEE participated at the Engaging citizen science conference in Aarhus with the round table discussion “Identifying CS stakeholder profiles and developing multi-level and sustainable engagement strategies”. Thank you everyone for your contributions!
SOCIO-BEE was present at the EAHL 2022 in Ghent (20-22 April 2022) .Departing from the challenges faced by citizen science projects in healthcare, including the lack of a commonly accepted definition of citizen science, we investigate how the pandemic has led to an increase in citizen science projects in the sector of healthcare research. Specifically, we explore the role of law and policy and the respective discourse.” Link to the programme
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Cos4Cloud
Over the next few months, Cos4Cloud will organize activities to test the services developed within the project. Keep informed and do not miss the opportunity to participate by joining the Cos4Cloud testing community here!
According to a new research study published by Sustainability, the technology that Cos4Cloud is developing can support citizen science observatories to increase their data quality and quantity to monitor the sustainable development goals (SDG) indicators! Read more about it here.
In other news, Cos4Cloud partner Inria has recently developed a web component for AI-taxonomist to allow web developers to integrate a Photo ID widget into their website with only two lines of code. More on this here.
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C*Sci2022 Conference
The full program to the C*Sci2022 conference is now available and registration is still open. The conference will be online, but there will be regional networking sessions planned around the globe (easy planning templates and details here)
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Register for the Austrian Citizen Science Conference
Use this link to register for the annual Austrian Citizen Science Conference from June 28-30. Under the motto "Citizen Science - why not (actually)?" We aim to discuss why or why not to engage in citizen science from various perspectives. The registration deadline for this German speaking conference is on 10th of June.
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Series of Webinars | URBAN RIVERS – RÍOS URBANOS
The ibero-american network RUN | Citizen science and co-creation for regeneration of urban rivers and mitigation of risks (link) is organising a series of webinars "URBAN RIVERS".
RUN brings together 15 research groups from 8 countries to explore how regeneration, renaturalization and risk mitigation with the riverain community can be a more sustainable path.
The next webinar will be on May 9, 2022, at 6 pm (CEST), via ZOOM, the audience to the Cuenca de Besos, a case study coordinated by the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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Communication and conflict resolution in transdisciplinary teams – Webinar
In this webinar, Wiebke Hoffmann (Stifterverband and innOsci) will provide basic knowledge about different communication styles and will focus on reflecting on our own communication in order to communicate more consciously and effectively in the future, especially in interdisciplinary processes. The webinar is aimed at researchers of all disciplines as well as citizen scientists and other other civil society actors participating in research (link)
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LIFE ESC360 Final Conference
The final conference of the LIFE project "360 volunteers for monitoring forest biodiversity in the Italian Natura 2000 network" is scheduled for the 23rd June 2022, in Martina Franca (TA)!
Seven sessions dealing with the project outcomes, environmental citizen science and the monitoring of protected species. See the programme here
This event is available in attendance or online!
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WEBINAR: Successful strategies in applying for citizen science funding
Not surprisingly, when asked, researchers wanting to engage in citizen science often indicate their need for support in finding the right funding channels and writing strong and convincing project applications.
On May 17th, join the webinar organised by UNICA together with EUTOPIA Train to learn more about successful strategies in applying for citizen science projects. The invited speakers will provide the audience with interesting insights, important take-aways and useful suggestions regarding successful applications.
More information, program and registration form
UNICA
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Online Webinar 25.5: Sustainable and healthy living environments: How to mobilise citizens’ knowledge?
The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) is organizing an online webinar on May 25 related to citizen science and sustainable living environments. Three guest speakers will discuss the potential and value of co-design and citizen science in public decision making aiming at sustainability, draw from experiences in integrating citizen science in food policy in the UK and discuss methodologies for strengthening citizens’ voice for health equity. For more information and to register, please use this link.
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Join our ongoing CAMALIOT campaign!
The goal of the campaign is to collect raw data from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) using Android mobile phones. The data will be input to machine learning algorithms for improving weather forecasting as well as trying to improve the positional accuracy of mobile phones. See our website and video for more information on how you can get involved!
IIASA
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Forum on impact assessment in citizen science
On 5th July the MICS, CoAct and ACTION projects are co-hosting a forum on impact assessment in citizen science. This will be an opportunity to explore current frameworks, methods and tools for impact assessment as well as discussing what is currently missing for effective impact assessment and how we can monitor the contribution of citizen science to global societal challenges and the EU missions. You can register to take part here. If you have developed an approach for impact assessment in citizen science and would like to contribute to the planning of the event please contact Luigi [lceccaroni@earthwatch.org.uk].
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