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2022 ECSA General Assembly
The annual ECSA General Assembly will take place Tuesday, 13 December 2022, 9:00-12:30 CET.
An overview of ECSA activities in 2021 will be provided, as well as plans for 2023. Members will elect a new president, executive committee and board of directors, approve working groups and more.
All ECSA members will receive an invitation via E-Mail.
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Executive Assistant /
Assistenz der Geschäftsführung
In der Position als Assistenz im Büro der Hauptgeschäftsführung unterstützen Sie selbstständig das Team in allen administrativen Aufgaben und sorgen für einen reibungslosen Ablauf des Tagesgeschäfts sowie für eine professionelle interne und externe Kommunikation.
● Unterstützung bei administrativen und organisatorischen Vorgängen
● Allgemeine Büroorganisation und Korrespondenz
● Planung und Koordination von Terminen und Dienstreisen
● Vor- und Nachbereitung von Veranstaltungen
● Erstellen von Präsentationen für Vorträge
● Abgleich der Zeiterfassung
Bewerbungsfrist: bis zur Besetzung der Stelle
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We would like to welcome two new members to the ECSA team!
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Marcos Pereira
Accountant
As a Business Administration Bachelor, Marcos started his carrier in finance working for companies in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and then in Germany, especially in the event marketing branch. He joined ECSA in August 2022 and feels honored to help such a passionate team deal with all the accounting tasks central to running all its exciting citizen science projects!
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Paul Sorrell
Communications and Community Officer
An experienced communications professional with projects in both the private and public sectors, Paul brings an obsession with the written word and a desire to strengthen the citizen science community to ECSA.
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Results of Citizen Science project: "The Housing Experiment"
Vetenskap & Allmänhet have published the results of their three-month study on the environmental barriers restricting ease of movement in Swedish homes.
Through the use of the Housing Experiment app, citizen scientists — students and senior citizens — collected the information sought by researchers for analysis.
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Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) at an Institutional Level
A new short animation film from Co-Change has been made on responsible research and innovation (RRI). The video shows why it is important for researchers, research institutes, and research funders to build relationships with society and how to integrate this into their institutional operations, even in the form of citizen science.
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SPOTTERON CS App Platform update
Communication between users and the project is essential to modern interactive citizen science. In the new SPOTTERON CS app platform update, all citizen science apps now integrate "User Message Boards" as a core part of the community toolkit. Supported by Push-Notifications and @User-Tagging, the new feature enables a new level of direct communication in citizen science apps.
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Citizen Science for environmental and health issues in conflict zones
Check out the 2022 ECSA conference presentation of Web2Learn's Katerina Zourou and Stefania Oikonomou, Citizen science for and with conflict-affected communities: a topic initiated at ECSA 2020 by the Conflict and Environment Observatory.
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We are glad to introduce you to IMPETUS, a new Horizon Europe project that will support and promote citizen science in Europe. Coordinated by Zabala Innovation Consulting and King’s College London, seven partners from four European countries will be working together over the next four years.
IMPETUS will pay particular attention to acknowledging the role of citizen science in tackling the greatest challenges of our time. There will be a strong focus in considering the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Green Deal.
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ACCTING has a new blog: Sustainability Transformation: What Does it Mean? The blog expands on the second ACCTING seminar held in early November. It discusses more on what enables and hinders transformation, sheds further light on why transformation is resisted and how can enablers address the existing gaps and foster transformation.
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The BioAgora Consortium held its in-person kick-off meeting and official launch event in Helsinki on 9-10 November.
Source: BioAgora Twitter
The European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), as an integral part of the project, also participated in the meeting. The kick-off was comprised of interactive workshops that allowed the project partners to visualize and plan their upcoming activities. Additionally, representatives from the European Commission, Biodiversa+ and Eklipse highlighted the importance of the project for biodiversity research and science policy connection in Europe.
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The services developed in Cos4Cloud have been used and tested in real scenarios over the last months. One example of this was testing FASTCAT-Edge (to build a do-it-yourself camera trap that records videos and pictures of wildlife activity) and FASTCAT-Cloud (a website service to upload and analyse nature videos and pictures coming from camera traps) with members of the FELIS project that uses camera traps to monitor Catalan mammals, focusing on the wildcat.
In addition, during the ‘Seeing Stars Leiden’ initiative, two apps to collect light measurements were connected to the back-end of the MOBIS service. During this event, the city of Leiden turned off their lights to reconnect with the night sky and view constellations with the naked eye. Read more about MOBIs during this event, here.
FASTCAT testing group at Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac. Credit: Cos4Cloud.
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Geneva Forum
It is time for the annual Geneva Forum at the at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, organised by Objectif Sciences International (OSI). The conference will work toward realising the Sustainable Development Goals and making progress on peace.
The forum will cover inclusive education and project-based learning, the rights of nature, sustainable tourism and smart travel, crowdfunding, smart finance and responsible investment.
Monday, 12-Friday, 16 December 2022
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COESO International Funders Workshop
Join the COESO International Funders Workshop! The COESO project aims to develop and sustain citizen science research in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). We are bringing together an international circle of research funders to discuss how their agendas address the need for more SSH citizen science research.
The event will include opportunities to hear from funders working in a variety of areas in the broad funding landscape. There will also be opportunities for you to connect with other funders to share perspectives and to learn more about the COESO project.
Wednesday, 25 January 2023 @ 11:00-13:00 CET.
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Driving changes to embed Citizen Science at your institution
Join this TIME4CS online interactive workshop to learn how you can contribute to fostering the adoption of citizen science as a research methodology within your organization through the use of institutional roadmaps.
You will have the chance to:
- Discuss challenges and opportunities for citizen science at your institution
- Learn about using institutional roadmaps as a tool for change
- Co-create your own Grounding Action with the TIME4CS Reflection Tool
- Have a hands-on session using the TIME4CS Reflection Tool, designed to support the development of personalized action plans: reflect on the big vision for your organization, identify relevant stakeholders, define success criteria and necessary resources, and make your action plan.
Tuesday, 6 December 2022 @ 10:00-12:00 CET
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Environmental citizen sensing: social participation, arts and technology
The Erasmus+ project GreenVETers is organising a webinar on environmental citizen sensing and its contribution to social participation and deliberative democracy practices through art and new technologies.
The webinar will show examples of citizen sensing actions as well as of artistic expressions designed to foster active citizenship and address social injustices.
Tuesday, 6 December 2022 @ 11:00 CET
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COESO Community Chat - getting money and momentum for social science and humanities in citizen science
A panel discussion, organised by ECSA and COESO, about concrete action items that funding seekers can do to increase SSH Citizen Science funding opportunities. Content will be based on COESO’s Funding Advocacy Action Plan.
Tuesday, 17 January 2023 @ 12:00-13:00 CET
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(Senior) Researcher of Stakeholder Engagement — Knowledge & Innovation Studies @ IHE Delft
Do you share our passion for working with diverse stakeholders in innovative ways, combining high quality scientific action research with the ethical responsibility for creating impact in communities and society? Then this is a great opportunity to work in a dynamic international environment, in research as well as international cooperation.
We are a team of social scientists from diverse disciplines, working on citizen science and social innovation in the fields of water and environment in Europe and around the globe. This new position will contribute, among others, to 2 new Horizon Europe projects in which we lead the SSH contributions: CitiObs and MAR2PROTECT.
Aside from doing exciting & relevant research, this position allows you to contribute to international policy dialogues on climate, water, citizen science and open science and to use/advance your skills to shape the research agenda and successfully acquire further research funding.
Deadline for applications is Sunday, 11 December 2022
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PhD Opportunity: Connecting people to the oceans; monitoring climate change through marine recreation
Newcastle University, in conjunction with Cefas and Oceanographers from Exeter University, is offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated candidate to apply for an interdisciplinary PhD in Oceanography/Marine Heatwaves/Social science.
The aim of the project to explore the degree to which Citizen Science can contribute to greater understanding of marine systems, with research conducted in three environments at the threshold of ecological temperature tolerance, and heightened vulnerability to impacts of rising sea temperatures.
For more information, please contact Dr. Jane Delany of Newcastle University: jane.delany@ncl.ac.uk
Deadline for applications is Monday, 16 January 2023
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Project Officer – IIASA ADVANCING SYSTEMS ANALYSIS (ASA) PROGRAM
The Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Research Group, part of the IIASA ASA Program, is looking for a project officer to support the group with management and research activities, including monitoring and organisational assistance for a Horizon Europe funded project starting in 2023, with a duration of four years.
Deadline for applications is Monday, 9 January 2023
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Citizen science communication and engagement: a growing concern for researchers and practitioners
Citizen science through schools: the importance of interpersonal relationships
Costa, I. A., Morais, C., & Monteiro, M. J. (2022). Citizen science through schools: the importance of interpersonal relationships. Cuadernos.info, (52), 113-135. https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.52.39405
http://cuadernos.info/index.php/cdi/article/view/39405/40369
“Listen to the science!”—The role of scientific knowledge for the Fridays for Future movement
Soßdorf A and Burgi V (2022) “Listen to the science!”—The role of scientific knowledge for the Fridays for Future movement. Front. Commun. 7:983929. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2022.983929
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.983929/full
Data Sovereignty in Community-Based Environmental Monitoring: Toward Equitable Environmental Data Governance
Victoria Reyes-García, Adrien Tofighi-Niaki, Beau J Austin, Petra Benyei, Finn Danielsen, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Aditi Sharma, Ramin Soleymani-Fard, Maria Tengö, Data Sovereignty in Community-Based Environmental Monitoring: Toward Equitable Environmental Data Governance, BioScience, Volume 72, Issue 8, August 2022, Pages 714–717, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac048
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/72/8/714/6610022
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