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SEEDS - Scientific EngagEment for ADolescentS
Adolescents at risk and living in deprived areas have fewer opportunities for out of school activities, informal learning and reduced access to science education. The social determinants of health, specifically deprivation …
Urban Health Citizen Laboratory (Laboratorio Ciudadano de Salud Urbana)
The Urban Health Citizen Lab is a collaborative space for experimentation, learning, and practice to foster community participation in building more resilient, healthy, sustainable, and inclusive neighbourhoods.
Utopian Stories
Utopian Stories is a large citizen science project in which school classes are invited to collaborate with researchers from literary studies and climate research to study the changes we are preparing …
ACTION
The ACTION (Participatory science toolkit against pollution) project was co-funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 framework, SwafS programme. It supported, via open calls and an acceleration programme …
The Tea Bag Experiment - Tepåseförsöket
When dead plants decompose in the soil, the decomposition process emits carbon dioxide, a gas which plays an important role in global warming. In order to be able to make …
The Best-Before-Date Experiment (Bäst före-försöket)
Approximately 1,800 Swedish pupils helped researchers at SLU (the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) study how different food items were stored in refrigerators in Swedish homes, and at what temperature. …
The Acoustic Experiment – Akustikförsöket
In this Scandinavian citizen science initiative, 59 primary school classes in Sweden and 689 classes in Denmark took part in measuring the acoustic properties of their classrooms. In Sweden, the …
The News Evaluator – Nyhetsvärderaren
In the “News Evaluator” mass experiment, researchers and pupils studied the type of news in young people’s online news feeds. Using a digital tool, pupils categorised and evaluated the credibility …
The Vegetable Experiment - Grönsaksförsöket
Over one day, approximately 5,500 participating pupils recorded how much fruit and vegetables they ate, both at school and at home. Through the mass experiment, pupils got the opportunity to …
The Autumn Experiment – Höstförsöket
Climate change is impacting when the growing season in nature begins in the spring and when it ends in the autumn. Previous research has shown that changes to the climate …
The Ladybird Experiment - Nyckelpigeförsöket
Humans are affecting nature in different ways and threatening the crucial diversity of plants and animals. To know how to best to tackle the problem, we need more knowledge about …
The Risk Picture – Riskbilden
In The Risk Picture, 722 Swedish pupils helped researchers at the Risk and Crisis Research Centre (RCR) at the Mid Sweden University collect images of environments that they associated with …
The Notice Board - Anslagstavlan
What is the function of the physical notice board in the digital age? Who is saying what? And why? These are examples of questions that researchers from the University of …
Svinnkollen (The Food Waste Experiment)
Can more – and better – information result in less food being wasted? Researchers will be investigating this together with pupils and teachers across the whole of Sweden in the Food Waste …
The Star-Spotting Experiment (Stjärnförsöket)
Our use of artificial light has dramatically changed the environment in large parts of the world. Scientific studies have shown unexpected and worrying effects on the biology of many organisms …
WeCount - Telraam
WeCount enables citizens to quantify local road transport (cars, large vehicles, active travel modes and speed) with an automated sensor "Telraam" (www.telraam.net).
The objective of the project is to produce scientific knowledge …