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ECSA Conference 2022 in Berlin
As announced, the 4th ECSA Conference runs under the cross-cutting theme of Citizen Science for 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.
We invite researchers from all disciplines, civil society actors, citizen scientists, policy decision-makers and all interested in the topic in Europe and worldwide to reflect, discuss and network around the topic of Citizen Science for Planetary Health.
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:
Photo by Simona Cerrato
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Webinar: "We all do better when we work together"
If you missed the Webinar from last month, don’t worry because you can still watch it on YouTube.
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Presentation of the project ISEED
"We face a crisis in democratic ideals in Europe. Societal challenges such as poverty and the international financial crises, the COVID crisis and now the war in Ukraine can stimulate public scepticism around democratic process and lead to distrust and disengagement with political process and democracy in Europe. The question ISEED explores is: Can citizen science offer useful lessons for how to engage people in Europe to contribute to the knowledge-based democratic governance of Europe? ISEED: Inclusive Science and European Democracies is a H2020 project joining 12 partners from Europe and Latin America to explore this question through four linked streams of work, spanning theoretical conceptualisations of the public sphere, to studying cases of citizen engagement and developing computational tools to study polarisation and emotions online."
You can find out more about our work at: www.iseedeurope.eu and https://iseedeurope.eu/media/
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The Jug Band Colline Metallifere goes North
The Jug Band Colline Metallifere recently had confirmation of the acceptance of its abstract for a performance at the Living Knowledge conference in Groningen on June 30. Link
The art+science collective based in Southern Tuscany is now gearing up to send a delegation to the Netherlands, on a "non-formal" education tour which is expected to touch Northern Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, and Switzerland. It is possible to take part in the co-design of the tour, either as an artist, as a thematic expert, or as a sponsor. Please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org for more information.
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Crowdsourcing research questions in science
New evidence shows that involving citizens more in the early stages of research studies could be key to generating new, innovative perspectives and promoting impactful research. These results have been published in the journal Research Policy. More specifically, on average the crowdsourced questions were less novel and scientifically relevant, but the top 20% of research questions developed by citizens outperformed those of experts on all dimensions. Here the Open Access publication:
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Mutual Learning Exercise on Citizen Science
Are you already familiar with the Mutual Learning Exercise on Citizen Science? There is a new website where you can find the First Thematic Report: "Introduction and Overview on Citizen Science" and the Second Topic Challenge Paper: "Ensuring Good Practices and Impacts"
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Wissen macht Leute - the citizen science radioshow and podcast
Listen to "Wissen macht Leute", the first Austrian radioshow and podcast dedicated to citizen science! The monthly show is produced by Österreich forscht and highlights projects, citizen scientists and events. You can listen to the first episode of the podcast (in German) directly on Österreich forscht or on Spotify.
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Adapting Citizen Science App-Icons to a new technology
App-Icons are a crucial part of every Citizen Science App; it is often the first impression that participants see when joining up, and the icon represents your project directly on a user's phone. Technology evolves, and so does how an App-Icon works. On the SPOTTERON Citizen Science App platform, all projects are upgraded to the "Adaptive Icon" technology, allowing flexible display, compatibility, and even animation of their App-Icon. Learn more here
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Austrian Citizen Science Award starts in April
The Center for Citizen Science in Vienna is organising the “Citizen Science Award” competition for children, teenagers and adults. From April until the beginning of June 2022 Austrian school classes and individuals will be invited to participate in seven citizen science projects. Winners will receive (non-) cash prizes.Get more information here
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Summary of experiences with hard-to-reach groups
Last year the Center for Citizen Science in Vienna organised four events with the focus on hard-to-reach groups. Recently, a documentation (in German) has been published summarising the discussions among the participants. The brief overview provides food for thought for work with previously unreached population groups can be found here
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Marine Ranger App
The Blue World Institute developed Marine Ranger mobile app for reporting sightings of marine mammals of Adriatic and Mediterranean. The app provides list and details about all Mediterranean species needed for identification. Through the app users can provide sighting location and details and upload photos or videos. In case animal is in distress, by-caught or stranded users can call relevant service directly from the app. App is available for Android and iOS and is developed within EU LIFE Delfi project. (www.marine-ranger.org)
Photo: Blue World Institute
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Citizens collect 60.000 shells during Big Seashell Survey 2022
Last Saturday 19 March 2022, about 750 citizens collected more than 38.000 shells on Belgian beaches, with a top-5 in line with the results of the 2021 edition. For the first time, the Netherlands joined the Big Seashell Survey - a citizen science initiative by LifeWatch Belgium - and collected another 22.000 shells, showing remarkable differences between both countries. Find here the press release with the results and the photo report.
Photo: LifeWatch-VLIZ | Annelies Tavernier
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Webinar Report: Inclusive & transformative Citizen Social Science with young people
Citizen Social Science with young people can help to develop more knowledge and innovation to make European societies more inclusive and youth-friendly. The working group on “Empowerment, Inclusiveness and Equity” by ECSA and LKN co-organized three webinars together with the YouCount project for knowledge exchange on the topic. Discussions and lessons learned on inclusive and transformative SCS with young people are summaried in this freshly published report.
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For a full list of upcoming citizen science events, visit EU-Citizen.Science.
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Extraordinary webinar: “Planetary health”
Let's get ready for the next ECSA 2022 (Berlin, 5-8 October) and explore together the broad spectrum of themes covered by the overarching topic of Planetary Health. The first appointment is the webinar on April 7 (LINK TO REGISTRATION), which will introduce the holistic concept of Planetary Health. Join us!
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Webinar “Crash course on Air Quality”
We invite you to the workshop “Crash course on Air Quality”, organized by SOCIO-BEE consortium and hosted by ECSA. It will take place on 28th of April at 10:30. To register click here.
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Cos4Cloud
Cos4Cloud ran a campaign on Twitter on 8th March for International Women’s Day. Team members were asked to share which women they admire in their professional field in particular or in the citizen science field in general. Read up on these impressive women and their work and get inspired here! If you would like to improve the functionalities of your citizen science observatory or learn more about the twelve technological services that Cos4Cloud is developing check out these infographics.
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SOCIO-BEE
SOCIO-BEE will be participating at the Engaging citizen science conference in Aarhus. If you are also attending the conference, we would love to have your input at the co-creative workshop “Identifying CS stakeholder profiles and developing multi-level and sustainable engagement strategies”.
SOCIO-BEE has released its first promotional video. You can find it at www.socio-bee.eu
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eu-citizen.science
Get inspired by citizen science projects and resources shared on the EU-Citizen.Science platform! Remember that as a registered user you can upload your own projects and resources, create your tailored library and take online courses on different aspects of citizen science at your own pace on the EU-Citizen.Science Moodle.
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PANELFIT
This project is about to come to an end, which is why we have been having exciting closing events. Stay tuned for more publications and results soon.
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SEEDS
How to empower teenagers in health issues
Health and Education are intrinsically related: improvements in education produce better health outcomes and vice versa. This is one of the focus of SEEDS (https://seedsmakeathons.com/), a project done by teenagers for teenagers based on citizen science to create new experiments for healthy lifestyles. Now SEEDS published a practical guide for teachers and educators providing information on four issues (healthy snacks, physical activity, sedentary behavior and screen time) of primary importance in the lives of teenagers. It also proposes some practical tips to apply in the daily practice to help teachers to empower their students. The guide is available in 6 languages (Catalan, English, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Spanish).
Find the blog post about it here.
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YouCount
It’s time to visit the YouCount blog! This week, we published our 10 key learnings based on knowledge sharing webinars organised together with EIE WG. We invite you to read and give input on how to increase social inclusion of young people in Europe through Youth Citizen Social Science (Y-CSS): Recent blog posts - YouCount - Social Citizen Science - Blog, News & Events (youcountproject.eu)
YouCount’s newsletter is coming up in April – make sure to sign up and read the last edition: Get in touch - YouCount - Social Citizen Science (youcountproject.eu)
Have you met our Early Career Researchers yet? Each week you can get to know one of the young YouCount researchers on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/youcountproject
If you want to dive deeper, take a look at YouCount’s latest deliverable on the multiple case study and social inclusion research. It provides a methodological framework for hands-on Y-CSS as well as our app toolkit that will be piloted in Spring 2022: D1.3 Methodological Framework for Data Collection and Analysis | Zenodo
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COMPAIR
Do you want to know more about COMPAIR? Check our YouTube channel where we now have our first promotional video
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Accting
The ACCTING project started in February and it has a new logo! The concepts used to create it were Green Deal, ecology, movement, sustainability, inclusivity and crossing data. If you want to stay tuned with our news follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Special collection
We are preparing a Special Collection of the journal Citizen Science: Theory and Practice on the Contributions of Citizen Science to the SDGs and International Development Frameworks.
If you are interested in contributing to this Special Collection, please send a short abstract to Dilek Fraisl (fraisl@iiasa.ac.at) by 30 April 2022!
For further information on potential topics, article types and deadlines, please see here.
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Special Issue on Open Innovation in Science: recent developments
Our Special Issue on Open Innovation in Science (OIS) is now published in Industry & Innovation! OIS is a novel concept that provides a unifying framework for exploring openness and collaboration in scientific research. Open Innovation in Science (OIS) is a young concept, but scholars of science and innovation are already putting it to use. In the first 2020 paper, 47 authors collaboratively conceptualized OIS, and the paper was already downloaded 15K times. Here you can find the Special Issue
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Unleash your power for change: creating a JEDI roadmap
This spring Equity@Ecsite invites you to join the last ECSITE Workroom series, exploring organisational change towards JEDI: Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
21, 28 April and 5 May from 14:30 - 16:30 CEST
If you represent an organisation ready to take their commitment towards inclusive and equitable science engagement to the next level, this Workroom is for you. It does not matter where you are at currently - as long as you are ready to share your organisational journey for open and honest examination around equity, diversity and inclusion.
You can expect to acquire new tools and methods developed by the DiverSci community of practice that will allow you to gain new professional confidence. You will also meet speakers that will challenge you with their inspiring practices, research and case studies. We hope to empower you as a JEDI advocate for your institution.
Registration and more information
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INOS Project Event - Bringing Open Knowledge and Innovation to Higher Education
Open Science and Citizen Science are growing exponentially, and each plays a key role in shaping research and society in the European Union, especially in universities. Since 2019, the INOS project (Integrating open and citizen science into active learning approaches in higher education) has developed activities, experiences and tools to encourage HEIs to be part of this growing movement through teaching, learning, training and taking part in open innovation and knowledge activities. Join us on 3-4 May 2022 to celebrate all that the project has achieved in a two-day online event. (link)
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