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ECSA 2022

CITIZEN SCIENCE FOR PLANETARY HEALTH

ECSA2022 ended on Saturday 8 October after 4 days of meetings, seminars, workshops on Citizen science for planetary health. A huge variety of contributions from excellent speakers made up a program that addressed all issues of planetary health from the perspective of citizen science. We thank all those who participated, the speakers and panelists who made this conference an exciting experience.

Ben Kriemann

Missed something?

All plenary sessions are available on the ECSA YouTube channel

You can also browse the  proceedings here and have a look at the photo albums here. Day 1  Day 2  Day 3 

Ben Kriemann

See you in Vienna 

The next conference will take place in Vienna, Austria, in 2024. Hosted by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) and the Natural History Museum Vienna, together with the ECSA team, ECSA2024 motto will be CHANGE: the citizen science community will explore and reflect about changes facilitated or started by citizen science in all realms of research and practices. We will also celebrate the tenth anniversary of our association, which was born in 2014. More info here 

Anton Uniqueton, Pexels Lizenz (https://tinyurl.com/4t2uhbrv)

Become a member

ECSA's vision is to create an inclusive Europe where all people are valued and empowered in advancing knowledge and innovation, and thus contributing to the democratization of science and society. Our members are the core value of the association. If you are not yet a member, become one by clicking here.

News from ECSA members

 

Citizen Science Starter Kit

The EUTOPIA TRAIN project has recently launched an online toolkit for researchers new to citizen science, interested in starting a project. In three modules you will learn more about citizen science as a research method, how you can determine whether this method is suitable for your research and which factors are crucial in the design of a successful citizen science project. Each module contains case studies, tips for further reading and links to useful online tools or courses.

New PhD Course in Citizen Science @NHM Denmark

A new intensive PhD course in Citizen Science will run 31 July – 11 August, 2022 at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, and will feature lectures and activities involving experts in the field of Citizen Science from Denmark, elsewhere in Europe and North America, covering both academic and private sectors. The course is open to students from all faculties, and the course will train and provide students with the skills and tools they need to design, communicate, and carry out research using the power of citizen science (the course runs in parallel with a MSc course, see details here.

Anders P. Tøttrup, Natural History Museum of Denmark

Project SIMILE (Informative System for the Integrated Monitoring of Insubric Lakes and their Ecosystems)

SIMILE project is devoted to the protection of water quality for Lugano, Maggiore and Como lakes through a geoinformatics coordination of existing monitoring systems with new data collection methods. It started in 2019 and it is financed by the Interreg Italy-Switzerland 2014-2021 program. It involves partners from the scientific,  technical and institutional sectors working in synergy.  Images from European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinels are integrated with high frequency sensors, placed on buoys and floating platforms, and with Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) produced with a Citizen Science approach through a dedicated mobile application.

#EIE-Zine

A new Zine is available on Empowerment, Inclusiveness & Equity in Citizen Science and Community-Based Research. We created it at the ECSA2022 pre-conference workshop of the EIE working group in collaboration with Philipp from SPOTTERON. The Zine captures reflections, experiences, questions and tips on empowerment, inclusiveness and equity from the work of the attendees. Find it here.

Claudia Göbel

 

Citizen Science Strategy 2030 for Germany

The English translation of the White Paper Citizen Science Strategy 2030 for Germany, developed with over 40 chairs and contributions from over 200 people from over 130 organisations, has now been released and is available open access:

White Paper Citizen Science Strategy 2030 for Germany. Helmholtz Association, Leibniz Association, Fraunhofer Society, universities and non-academic institutions, Leipzig, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7117771 

@UFZ/iDiv

Citizen Science Community meets in force in Berlin

CS Track together with ECSA organised the satellite symposium "Understanding the nature of Citizen Science in a rapidly changing world", as part of the ECSA conference programme. The event took place in the Museum of Natural History on Saturday, 8 October. Over 70 people took part in this half-day symposium made up of talks, workshops and discussions providing valuable input and feedback to so many of the project’s outputs which are now coming to fruition. More information can be found on the project website.

https://cstrack.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221008_092447.jpg

The “Citizen Sensing Paradigm” to Foster Urban Transitions: Lessons from Civic Environmental Monitoring in Rome

How can citizen-gathered environmental data enrich the scientific knowledge base and trigger claims for interventions, bringing in information on local issues often overlooked by competent institutions? Researchers and activists answer the question building on freshwater monitoring citizen science experience in Rome in a paper recently published in the European Journal of Journal of Risk Regulation. Read the paper available in open source here.

 

The ABCs of dialect: exploring historical notes digitally

The TCS project aims at transcribing and evaluating the handwritings and lexis contained on the more than 100-year-old paper slips of the "Wörterbuch der bairischen Mundarten in Österreich" ('Dictionary of Bavarian dialects in Austria') with the help of citizens, who will be guided and trained in the transcription process. The scans of the paper slips and the obtained knowledge will be made available via an online platform. Furthermore, the project aims to establish an evaluation and reflection of this historic material, the meaning and use of Austrian German lexis, in the present day.

Wörterbuch der bairischen Mundarten in Österreich

 

Mediterrenean spills

https://covacontro.org/category/progetto-sciamano-locchio-di-cova-contro-dallo-spazio/

ECSA 2024 in Vienna

on the occasion of the ECSA 2024 announcement last week in Berlin we have published a blog post in English and German on Österreich forscht. Please feel free to share this blog post in your networks! We are very happy to welcome all of you in Vienna in 2024 at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and the Natural History Museum!

CSI-COP 

#8th Newsletter, October-November 2022 issue is now available from the project website at the link below. The newsletter presents partners activities in Researcher’s Night, 30 September 2022: 

 CSI-COP are pleased to learn that the project has been shortlisted in the ‘Best Innovative Privacy Project’ in the inaugural PICCASO privacy awards. Notable organisations shortlisted in this category include Nokia, PwC, and the UK data protection authority, the ICO: the full list of all categories and all shortlisted organisations can be found here

 

Action for Nature-based Solutions and Convivial Conservation

A new study collates the key academic learnings about community monitoring of the environment from the past five years and calls for state level funding and protections. The study found that introducing community monitoring to 400 randomly selected communities in six countries led to measurable reductions in resource extraction and increases in user satisfaction. Alarmingly, the study also found that persecution of community members for defending their land and the environment has been increasing with more than 2,200 people killed in 57 countries over the past 20 years. Read the blogpost here and find the paper here.

UNEP-WCMC.

 

Citizen Science projects in the Time Machine Community

The Time Machine community aims to join Europe’s rich past with up-to-date digital technologies and infrastructures, creating a collective digital information system mapping the European economic, social, cultural and geographical evolution across times. Many of our Local Time Machine projects are community-driven and based on Citizen Science research Some examples are:

Topotheque - a platform which makes local, historical material and knowledge, which is kept in private hands, accessible online, in cooperation with the local population.

Rotterdams Publiek - provides a view on the cultural history of Rotterdam in the twentieth century

AEZEL / Limburg Time Machine - aiming to digitise cultural heritage data about people and properties in the Limburg region

Ajapaik - an open source crowdsourcing platform for enriching historical pictures with additional metadata

‘3D Capitals’ and ‘Game of crowds’ by CVC, Barcelona - where citizens co-created the digital 3D versions of the capitals of the Romanesque cloister of Sant Cugat

 find more such projects by searching our platform by ‘crowdsourcing’ and/or ‘Citizen Science’.

Upcoming events

For a full list of upcoming citizen science events, visit EU-Citizen.Science.

ECSA Webinar
 

Webinar: Learning from mistakes: failures in citizen science on November 16th at 16;00 CET. Please regsister here


 

ECSA project updates

BioAgora

Horizon Europe project, BioAgora, is on twitter now. The project aims to set up a European Science Service to help ratchet up the EU Biodiversity Strategy by providing timely and relevant scientific knowledge for decision-makers.

You can follow the project here and be a part of the vibrant community of actors from academia, public authorities, small and medium sized enterprises and associations.


INCENTIVE

INCENTIVE, PRO-Ethics and TIME4CS invite you to a CS community swap shop to share institutional barriers to citizen participation and (crucially!) find possible solutions. The idea is simple: just check out our MIRO board and share barriers and solutions you have identified in your own experiences. The impact of this small and easy contribution is bigger than you might realise, as we are collectively building a resource that can be translated and shared widely. This means we definitely need you and welcome all inputs – also if you cannot participate in the meeting! 

Swap shop date and time:  09. November 2022, 14:30-15:30 CET. Use this  link to join the meeting.
 


RAISE-CS

Just before the ECSA 2022 conference at the beginning of October, the team of #ErasmusMaris #RaiseCS project met in Berlin. 
The consortium met to discuss and plan the work of the following months. To learn more about this project follow the hashtags #ErasmusMaris #RaiseCS in Twitter. 

ECS (European Citizen Science)

The European Citizen Science project builds on the experience of the EU-Citizen.Science project, among others, and will expand and further develop the eu-citizen.science platform. The community on the platform is open to anyone interested in citizen science: You can help to enrich it with more projects, resources, training and events relevant to the community. Submit your contribution directly on the platform via the “New submission” button at the top right corner once logged in!


Accting

ACCTING (AdvanCing behavioural Change Through an INclusive Green deal) is an EU-funded project dedicated to analysing the impact of Green Deal policies on vulnerable groups and producing knowledge and innovations to advance behavioural change at individual and collective level. The project invites experts, researchers, practitioners and civil society organisations to join the ACCTING network; thus, a living community of stakeholders intended on implementing a fair and sustainable European Green Deal can be established. Members will receive news relevant to their research and interests, funding opportunities, inspiration and more. Register now to be part of a project that has a real impact on citizens: https://accting.eu/join-the-network/

In addition, new ACCTING blog, “How can we achieve sustainable urban mobility for all? Identifying challenges and envisioning inclusive solutions” is out. The blog addresses one of the eight research lines of ACCTING, Post-lockdown sustainable mobilities – centering cycling and walking. Please find here the link for the blog


Cos4Cloud

The 7th edition of the Cos4Cloud newsletter is out! It includes some of the news, events and outputs of the last couple of months such as the interview with Nadja Pernat, biologist at the University of Münster, who told us how she used Pl@ntNet-API (one of the services developed within Cos4Cloud) to analyse plant-pollinator interactions caught on images that citizens uploaded to citizen science platforms. In other news, the CORDIS Editorial Team chose Cos4Cloud as “Project of the Month” in September and Cos4Cloud partners were very glad about this and the recognition of the project’s contribution to improve the collection and management of data in citizen science. Lastly, if you missed Cos4Cloud at the ECSA Conference you can read a summary of the project’s participation in this Twitter thread.

Description: Part of the Cos4Cloud team at the ECSA conference.

 

SEEDS

SEEDS final exchange meeting: the power of teens

SEEDS is about to end. After two years of reflections, interventions, and activities to improve the health of adolescents, we all met to share experiences, present results and evaluate what has been achieved. About 80 people including teens ambassadors, researchers and facilitators met in Leuven, near Brussels, as guests of IMEC. We thank Scivil association and the citizen science association of Flanders. It was an exciting day where everyone learned a lot.

ROSiE
On the 13th of October the crossSwafs forum of stakeholders for responsible open science met to discuss the training materials for Responsible Open Science, which can be used to train citizen scientists or researchers. If you are interested on testing these materials please contact signe.mezinska@lu.lv

Invitations

Salzburg Digital Health and Prevention Days 2022

From 28 Nov to 2 Dec 2022 the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health an Prevention organizes the "Salzburg Digital Health and Prevention Days 2022" as a free online event (registration required). A week dedicated to digital health research and innovation covers insights into the institute's activities, interesting keynote talks, and research highlights sessions. The highlights sessions cover the topics: Patient Involvement in Research, Personal Digital Health Data Space, and Data Science in Digital Health. The week is closed with an Open Innovation in Science day (especially targeting early career researchers) where an idea competition will be kicked off.

 

Announcing C*Sci2023 / Call for Symposia

Please mark your calendars for C*Sci2023, May 22-26, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference team is currently inviting symposia proposals (due 19 November) that speak to cross-cutting priorities, include contributors and ideas from multiple backgrounds and perspectives, and are grounded in practice. Full details, including a schedule overview, location information, rates, and open calls, are available on the conference webpage: https://citizenscience.org/csci-2023/  

Webinar: Future Skills for Openness

Which mindset, skills, and tools do researchers need to create a culture of openness in research? This online webinar (November 8, 2022, in English, via Zoom), aimed at researchers of all disciplines, addresses precisely this question and will invite participants to reflect and discuss. Registration to participate is open until November 4, 2022, info and registration here.

iStock-3591573 by Geralt

Call for papers

The academic journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, published by Springer Nature, is currently welcoming submissions of original research for a thematic Collection (or ‘special issue’) entitled: ‘Community science’. You can find full details of the call for papers here.

 

Survey: Use of augmented reality in citizen science projects

Can augmented reality be an opportunity for citizen science projects? As part of Cosima Berger’s PhD at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Cosima wants to investigate how augmented reality is currently used in citizen science projects and where the projects themselves see the greatest potential for the future. If you are an initiator/manager of a citizen science project, please share your views/visions with Cosima by participating in the survey (https://limesurvey.rz.tu-bs.de/833844?lang=en).

Invitation to HEIDI Roundtables: Digital Action in HEIs, Communities and Voluntary Organisations

Do you participate in citizen science, hackathons, makeathons or similar activities in your college or university, or in your community? If so, the HEIDI Project would love to hear your thoughts about relevant barriers, challenges and potential impacts of these activities - and what HEI staff and community members need in order to carry these out. We'd be delighted for you to attend one or more of the following roundtables: 

  • HEI Staff Roundtable Event: "HEI Staff requirements and challenges for Digital Action" - 9th November 4pm (GMT) register here

  • Commu​nity Groups Roundtable Event “Understanding community needs and challenges for Digital Action” - 15th November 5:30pm (GMT) register here

  • Voluntary Organisations Roundtable Event “Understanding voluntary organisation needs and challenges for Digital Action” - 17th November 5:30pm (GMT) register here

Citizens in Power

ERC Annual Event 2022 - Citizen Science and Frontier Research

07 December 2022 - 09:00 CET - 15:30 CET

https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/events/erc-annual-event-2022-citizen-science-and-frontier-research

Survey of Data Perceptions & Practices of Citizen Scientists

ISEED – Inclusive Science and European Democracies - is an EU H2020 project that explores how deliberative and participatory democracies may be fostered in Europe. Fundamental to ISEED is a deep understanding of the perceptions, practices, and expectations of Citizen Scientists regarding data. Thus, ISEED is running a survey of the experiences of Citizen Scientists regarding data. Past and present practitioners of Citizen Science everywhere are cordially invited to participate. https://forms.gle/F9JD5TdKRuMwBzfVA

Should you have any questions please contact  Michael O’Grady (michael.j.ogrady@ucd.ie)

 

Call for contributions

We are inviting contributions to a Special Issue on "Public Participation in Sustainability-Oriented Research: Fallacies of Inclusiveness and The Ambivalences of Digital and Other Remedies" in the journal Sustainability:

Deadline for full papers is currently the 1st December 2022. If this would be interesting venue for publishing your work, please send a short abstract to claudiagoebel@posteo.de

 

Useful resources

The English translation of the White Paper Citizen Science Strategy 2030 for Germany

Bonn, A., Brink, W., Hecker, S., Herrmann, T.M., Liedtke, C., Premke-Kraus, M., Voigt-Heucke, S., von Gönner, J., Altmann, C., Bauhus, W., Bengtsson, L., Brandt, M., Bruckermann, T., Büermann, A., Dietrich, P., Dörler, D., Eich-Brod, R., Eichinger, M., Ferschinger, L., Freyberg, L., Grützner, A., Hammel, G., Heigl, F., Heyen, N.B., Hölker, F., Johannsen, C., Kiefer, S., Klan, F., Kluß, T., Kluttig, T., Knapp, V., Knobloch, J., Koop, M., Lorke, J., Munke, M., Mortega, K., Pathe, C., Richter, A., Schumann, A., Soßdorf, A., Stämpfli, T., Sturm, U., Thiel, C., Tönsmann, S., Valentin, A., van den Bogaert, V., Wagenknecht, K., Wegener, R. & Woll, S. (2022) White Paper Citizen Science Strategy 2030 for Germany. Helmholtz Association, Leibniz Association, Fraunhofer Society, universities and non-academic institutions, Leipzig, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7117771 

 

The “Citizen Sensing Paradigm” to Foster Urban Transitions: Lessons from Civic Environmental Monitoring in Rome

Berti Suman, A., Peca, M., Greyl, L., Greco, L., & Carsetti, P. (2022). The “Citizen Sensing Paradigm” to Foster Urban Transitions: Lessons from Civic Environmental Monitoring in Rome. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2022.28 

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