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New project
We are very happy to announce that a new consortium led by ECSA, was awarded Horizon Europe funding to further develop the EU-citizen.science platform over a four-year period.
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New project ACCTING
The EU-funded research project ACCTING – AdvanCing behavioural Change Through an INclusive Green deal – has started!
ACCTING will produce knowledge and innovations to advance behavioural change at individual, group, and societal levels, for an inclusive and equal European Green Deal during the next 40 months. The project kick off took place on 15 and 16 February 2022 in Strasbourg and online.
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Reaching Out and Stepping Up - How citizen science and RRI can enhance bioscience research
Carolina Doran, project officer at ECSA, will be a speaker at the event Reaching Out and Stepping Up - How citizen science and RRI can enhance bioscience research organized by , ResBios and StepChange to be held online on March 28th (14:00 CET) about how RRI and citizen science can be used to enhance research, with a particular focus on open science and public engagement in the fields of bioscience research. Click here to register for this event.
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Looking for Citizen Science practitioners in the bioscience fields
Carolina Doran,project officer at ECSA wants to tell your story. If you have been involved
in CS projects in the bioscience fields and want to co-create of Carolina's presentation, contribute on her miro board. The results will shape a story to be presented at the event "Reaching Out and Stepping Up - How CS and RRI can Enhance Bioscience Research". Should you have any questions contact Carolina directly (Carolina.Doran@mfn.berlin). Contributions are welcome until the 18th of March.
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Shaping a sustainable society together
The Action for Sustainable Future hub, a cooperation between the Open Innovation in Science Center of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft and the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Angewandte) presents key projects. The projects will work at the interface of art, science and society to address sustainable development in the sense of the UN Agenda 2030, by developing concrete solutions with high social relevance. All projects are participatory and largely initiated by civil society actors.
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How can citizens take part in scientific agenda setting?
Up to now, the setting of topics for science funding has often taken place without the active participation of citizens. The PADEMOS project has developed innovative methods and digital tools for participation in the setting of scientific topics and successfully tested them in a series of workshops with citizens and scientists. A chatbot guides users to formulate their questions to science in a structured way and a machine learning-supported visualization of the collected contributions enables scientists and funding policy makers to gain new insights and to respond to citizens' submissions. The project website provides a summary of the lessons learned along with recommendations for using the methods and tools to facilitate such participatory processes.
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New date for the Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2022
Due to Covid-19-restrictions the Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2022 had to move from winter to summer: the new date for this German-speaking conference is now from 28th to 30th of June 2022. Find more information here
inatura
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“Passive” citizen science: New publication
Can the timing and geography of tick bites across Europe be monitored using "passive" citizen science? A new Danish study examines how search-frequencies in Google Trends vary with temperature and precipitation month-by-month across the continent.
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New article "Human-machine-learning integration and task allocation in citizen science" published in humanities and social sciences communications
Authors: Marisa Ponti and Alena Seredko, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Based on an integrative literature review of 50 peer-reviewed papers, the article illustrates the current state of task allocation in citizen science projects that integrate humans and computational technologies, using a framework based on two main dimensions: (a) the nature of the task outsourced to citizens, experts, and machine learning, and (b) the skills required by citizens, experts, and machine learning to perform a task.
the article is available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01049-z
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Proceedings of seminar about participatory science and research
The Science Together network, supported by the French Museum of Natural History and Sorbonne University, held a seminar last July on the subject of the evaluation of participatory science and research. The proceedings of this seminar have been translated into English and are available here
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Postdoc opportunity
Please let us share with you this Postdoctoral Position on the topic: "how Hybrid Intelligence may realize Internet of People, i.e. how Artificial and Human Intelligence should be combine to create smarter (more acceptable) and sustainable environments."
Apply or do share alike among your peers and networks. We aim to incorporate the candidate as soon as possible (May - June, 2022)
https://deusto.talentclue.com/es/job/83709930
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Senior Researcher, Collective Intelligence
Type: Permanent
Closing date: 14 March 2022
Level: Mid-career researcher or early career with significant operational experience.
Overview: As Senior Researcher you will lead the delivery of a European research project about enhancing the impact of citizen science. We are seeking candidates with existing operational experience of citizen science methods. The function of research in our team is to turn insights about CI design from research into practice, through the development of new tools, products and solutions in real-world contexts. This is a unique opportunity to help shape a research and innovation practice.
Full details: https://www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/senior-researcher-collective-intelligence-ccid/
Please get in touch by email if you have any questions. (aleksandra.berditchevskaia@nesta.org.uk)
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PhD opportunity
University of York have a PhD opportunity funded through the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities on 'Growing Participation in Kew's Collections' which will examine who participates in Kew's natural history and archive citizen science projects, and the efficacy of different methods for recruiting more diverse volunteers. Deadline for applications is 9th March.
This is available on a full or part-time basis. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested. Sarah West (sarah.west@york.ac.uk)
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PhD opportunity
At the VUB, we are currently looking for a doctoral student who would work on the LEARN project as well as a PhD degree in citizen science.
Due to the nature of the empirical work to be carried out with Flemish schools, the candidate must speak fluent Dutch. Please see the vacancy below (in Dutch):
https://smit.vub.ac.be/vacancy/phd-onderzoeker-citizen-science-en-binnen-luchtkwaliteit
apply before March 15
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For a full list of upcoming citizen science events, visit EU-Citizen.Science.
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Webinar March 2022
ECSA and LIBER invite you to the Webinar: We All Do Better When We Work Together: LIBER and ECSA collaborating for stronger citizen science communities, that will take place on Wednesday 16th of March at 15:00. Register using this link.
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Players needed to help advance cancer research
GENIGMA is a game for smartphones that enlists players to solve puzzles while generating scientific data that can detect alterations in genomic sequences and ultimately advance cancer research. The game, out on iOS and Android and available in English, Spanish, Catalan and Italian. The Centre for Genomic Regulation (Spain) looks for players during a three-month long campaign - the #GenigmaChallenge - to analyze the genome of the T-47D breast cell line, a critical resource used by scientists to study cancer and test new drugs to treat the disease.
https://genigmagame.app/en/
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Online Citizen Science Pub Quiz
Do you know your way around the world of science? Do you love quizzing together with your friends? Then our online pub quiz is the right place for you! Österreich forscht, Austria's first and largest platform for citizen science, and the Wiener Volkshochschulen, the largest adult education institution in the German-speaking world, are dedicating the evening of March 31entirely to the topics of science and citizen science in this bilingual event. Find all the details in German and English here!
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Help us by participating in the CAMALIOT campaign!
If you are interested in helping us to improve weather forecasting and you have an Android phone, please download the CAMALIOT mobile app. Simply log data from your GPS in the background, e.g., over night, and upload the data when you wake up. As part of a European Space Agency funded project, we are training machine learning algorithms with satellite navigation data collected from mobile phones to improve weather forecasting. The campaign will start in March, for more information visit the CAMALIOT website
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Survey for people interested in CS in places across Europe OR people with experience in the field of pollinator conservation research
Supporting Pollinator Citizen Science Across Europe.
This survey is part of the SPRING project: Strengthening Pollinator Recovery through INdicators and monitorinG. SPRING is funded by the European Union Directorate General for the Environment to support a European pollinator survey.
The survey will be live until 7th March, 23:59GMT.
If you have any questions please contact us at michael.pocock@ceh.ac.uk or mirban@ceh.ac.uk.
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Symposium "How to engage stakeholders in conservation"
The symposium will take place online and the link will be sent to participants upon registration (https://carpathians.citizenscience.cz/#symposium).
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At the beginning of February the first co-creative workshop with stakeholders took place in the four different pilot locations. The aim of these workshops is to create a powerful network of expertise and interest to tackle air pollution challenges. Check the blog post about the workshop in Sofia.
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In February ECSA and Panelfit hosted a webinar about data protection and vulnerable groups. If you missed it, do not worry, we have recorded it and you can find it here!
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Cos4Cloud interviewed Maria Daskolia, from project partner NKUA, who has a lot of experience to share on citizen science being a great opportunity for integrating sustainability values into school curricula. Read about Maria’s inspiring work here!In further news, here are some highlights of the co-design of services in Cos4Cloud – four services have been co-designed with the participation of 176 people.
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Eu-citizen.sience project released this video with details about the development of the plaform, what was in mind during this process and what can you find in it.
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