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ECSA 2022 Conference
ECSA is very happy to announce the upcoming 4th ECSA conference will be hosted by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin in Autumn 2022. The theme of the conference is Citizen Science and Planetary Health. More information will be made available soon.
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ECSA 2020 Conference
The proceedings of the ECSA 2020 conference are now available to read in this JCOM Special Issue.
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New citizen science paper on tree health
A new paper has just been published from the former OPAL team at Imperial College London, exploring the perceptions of professional and public participants in a field of citizen science, tree health, where evidence contributes directly to official surveillance and statutory action.
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Formalising and expanding citizen science
Citizen science is being recognised at a growing number of United Nations Events. The newly formed Global Citizen Science Partnership is providing overall coordination for many of these events. A summary of recent events is now available.
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EU-built Citizen Science App technology in ClimateWatch
At CitSciOz21 on 27th - 29th of October, EarthWatch Australia presents "ClimateWatch" Citizen Science App running on the SPOTTERON platform, which originates from Vienna, Austria. The participatory app records phenology changes in nature. 5 projects from Australia are already using this EU-built technology.
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Planning underway for the UN Science Policy Business Forum
The Fourth Global Session will run online in support of the UNEA5.2 (28 February - 2 March 2022) and a special session of the UN Environment Assembly, to be held 3 - 4 March 2022, will be devoted to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the creation of UNEP in 1972 (UNEP@50). We plan to have a strong global citizen science delegation at this event which should take place the weekend ahead of UNEA5.2 (Probably 25th - 27th February 2022). To take part, contact martin.brocklehurst[at]me.com.
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New paper on crowd science and citizen science
A new paper with Marion Poetz from the LBG Open Innovation in Science Center as co-author clarifies the relation between Crowd Science and Citizen Science, proposes a framework to profile CS projects, also accommodating machines and algorithms, and outlines a research anchored on important underlying organisational challenges of CS projects.
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Eastern Europe UNSPBF
The very first UNSPBF Eastern Europe event is planned for 2022. ECSA members interested in supporting this event should contact martin.brocklehurst[at]me.com the UN Co-ordinator for the Global Citizen Science Partnership (GCSP) and ECSA Board Member. A regional citizen science delegation for this event is proposed.
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Results of the CSMON-LIFE Project
A new publication in Sustainability describes the results of the CSMON-LIFE Project, and a follow-up three years after its conclusion.
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The LBG OIS Centre is a partner in the new EU project Screen4Care
The project, funded by Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI 2 JU), will use genetic newborn screening and artificial intelligence to accelerate the diagnosis for patients with rare diseases. The OIS Center will bring Open Innovation in Science in Screen4Care by involving co-researchers from relevant stakeholder groups.
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ECSA side event at MoP7 of the Aarhus Convention
The event was built on the revised recommendations on electronic information tools. The revised document recognises that citizen science and crowdsourcing, alongside other forms of co-production of environmental information, are new instruments for supporting the mission of the Aarhus Convention. Recordings of the event are available to watch.
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Asia-Pacific (APAC) UNSPBF
Citizen Scientists take a prominent role at the first Asia - Pacific United Nation Science Policy Business Forum on the Environment (UNSPBF). View full details and reports to the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference with strong recommendations to support citizen science.
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Coastwatch survey update
The annual Coastwatch autumn shore audit has been running as a citizen science project for over 3 decades. On 15 Oct volunteers had booked/surveyed > 650 sites. Result highlights covering key biodiversity and marine litter data will be published in early December.
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Community-based monitoring featured in BioScience
A special section in BioScience describes the potential for such efforts to advance the scientific enterprise and makes recommendations for future directions.
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Insights from the WeObserve Project
This recently published paper presents key insights to share best practices, to address challenges and to inform practitioners, policy makers and funders of Citizen Observatories.
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Living Knowledge Conference
The 9th international Living Knowledge Conference aims to bring together all those involved in doing or supporting research with and for communities. Meet, learn and collaborate! University of Groningen, The Netherlands, June 29-July 1, 2022. Call for proposals is now open!
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New MSc in Citizen Science
The programme will start at University College London in 2022, details are available on their website.
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For a full list of upcoming citizen science events, visit EU-Citizen.Science.
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4 November 13:00 - 15:00 CET
Webinar: Transformative and Innovative Impacts of Youth Citizen Social Science.
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5 November 18:00 - 111:00 GMT Glasgow
Youth4planet at COP26: Youth, Films, Visions. How to co-create the future of our planet. Watch on UN television, or contact Heiner Benking for a ticket hb[at]youth4planet.org.
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9 - 24 November
41st Session of the General Conference of UNESCO will consider the Open Science Recommendation
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24 November 11:00 - 16:30 CET and 25 November 10:00 - 13:00 CET
EU-Citizen.Science and ACTION Project Conference
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25 - 26 November
The Portuguese community of Citizen Science practitioners, researchers and enthusiasts is planning its encounter for November. The event will have a decentralised hybrid format and aims at “building bridges for participatory science”.
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NHAC Journal Call for papers
The journal Neotropical Hydrobiology & Aquatic Conservation, in alliance with the Citizen Science Network for the Amazon, launched a Call for papers to be included in a special edition on citizen science, to generate information on fish and aquatic habitats at river basin scale, and to engage citizens for the conservation of wetlands and the sustainable management of fisheries. We would like to include conceptual and opinion papers from European researchers. Manuscripts in English, Spanish and Portuguese must be sent to editorial.inia.bolivia[at]gmail.com until January 20, 2022.
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Citizen Science Award 2022: Call for submissions is open!
Ongoing citizen science or open innovation projects in Austria can apply to become a project for the Citizen Science Award 2022. Within the framework of this research competition, pupils and all interested parties can participate in research on selected projects from 1 April to 8 July 2022. The most committed Citizen Scientists will be honored at a ceremony in fall 2022. Deadline for submission: 22 November 2021.
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Engaging Citizen Science Conference 2022
Call for Abstracts - deadline extended to 14 November 2021. Join us in Aarhus, Denmark, 25-26 Apr 2022, and showcase your project at the Science Museums - Steno Museum as part of and sponsored by the Danish Science Festival at our Open Citizens Day 24 Apr 2022!
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Call for papers
To be included in a Sustainability Special Issue on Citizen Science Projects for Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Development Goals. Further details are available and questions can be directed to Luigi Ceccaroni at lceccaroni[at]earthwatch.org.uk. Deadline 31 December 2021.
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Call for research partners
The team of Hearts in the Ice- Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Falun Strom are looking for support and research partners for a 7-8 month Canadian Arctic project late Fall 2022- 23. The project seeks to work with and elevate indigenous knowledge in Arctic communities with diverse citizen science projects that can add value to climate change. Contact: Sunniva.hiti[at]gmail.com.
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SEEDS
In the SEEDS project, the teenage ambassadors have been participating in training in Rotterdam, Netherlands and in Catalonia, Spain. These ambassadors will lead the SEEDS project in their local schools and will empower their peers to create new interventions for healthy and active lifestyles. The events for creating these interventions called 'Makeathons' are running over the next month and the SEEDS team are extremely excited about seeing what the teenagers come up with. The Twitter account is live and the website will be launched very soon.
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Wearables and droneS fOr CIty Socio-Environmental Observations and BEhavioral ChangE (SOCIO-BEE).
SOCIO-BEE proposes that community engagement and social innovation combined with Citizen Science (CS) through emerging technologies and playful interaction can bridge the gap between 1) the capacity of communities to adopt more sustainable behaviours, breaking the cognitive myopia, and 2) between the citizen intentions and the real behaviour to act in favour of the environment (in this project, to reduce air pollution). Furthermore, community engagement can raise other citizens’ awareness of climate change and their own responses to it, through experimentation, better monitoring, and observation of the environment.
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STEPCHANGE
Stakeholder engagement is crucial when it comes to the implementation of citizen science projects. But how to set up a co-creation strategy that works at the local level? The STEP CHANGE project provides some insights from its five citizen science initiatives in different fields of science. Read the complete article here.
In Germany, the Tenant Electricity Law incentivises residents and tenants to increase self-consumption, save electricity costs, adapt their energy-consuming behaviour, and contribute to CO2-mitigation via neighbourhood electricity sharing mechanisms. However, this law is only rarely applied in multi-family buildings and has a still very large untapped potential.
#StepChangeEU will assess the benefits and the main setbacks of neighbourhood electricity sharing by developing three case studies in three diverse energy #communities in Germany. Data on #energy consumption and production will be collected continuously for 1 year, and the involved households will receive a monthly report about their consumptions as well as have real-time access to their data.
Read more on the project website!
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Cos4Cloud
One of the Cos4Cloud services, MOBIS, has been recently added to the EOSC Market.
A new interview has also been posted on citizen science data in conservation.
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YOUCOUNT
The YouCount EU project, & the Working Group on Empowerment, Inclusiveness & Equity jointly run by ECSA and the Living Knowledge Network (LKN) warmly invite interested to join our three webinars this autumn with the aims of developing a framework for co-creative youth citizen social science. The next webinar is 4 November, at 13:00-15:00 CET and will focus on Transformative & Innovative Impact of youth citizen science. Subscribe for more information.
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EU-Citizen.Science
We are thrilled to announce the dates for the final conference that EU-Citizen.Science is holding in collaboration with the ACTION project. The future of citizen science: sharing experiences from the European community will be a gathering of the global citizen science community full of exciting talks, sharing of experiences, stimulating debates and informal networking moments. You will hear from a great variety of speakers, be able to share your ideas, and meet like-minded individuals. The event will take place online on 24 and 25 November. Register for the event and see the full programme.
In other news, the final version of the EU-Citizen.Science platform was launched on 27 October! Check out the platform’s new look and feel and its new functionalities such as submitting profiles of platforms and networks, looking for other registered users, a new personal area and the possibility to translate project profiles among others!
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