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How Networks of Citizen Observatories Can Increase the Quality and …
There is a growing acknowledgement that citizen observatories, and other forms of citizen-generated data, have a significant role in tracking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. This is evident in …

Citizen Science and Social Innovation: Mutual Relations, Barriers, Needs, and …
Social innovations are usually understood as new ideas, initiatives, or solutions that make it possible to meet the challenges of societies in fields such as social security, education, employment, culture, …

Participatory science toolkit against pollution
This toolkit is the ultimate resource collection for everyone interested in doing citizen science (CS) following the vision developed by the ACTION project (www.actionproject.eu) that aimed at making CS more …

Recommendations for engagement and awareness raising in citizen science
A digital resource providing recommendations
for engagement and awareness raising
surrounding citizen science

Citizen Science – Forschen mit Schulen. Grundlagen, Empfehlungen & praktische …
The booklet "Citizen Science – Forschen mit Schulen. Grundlagen, Empfehlungen & praktische Tipps für gemeinsame Projekte" (en: "Citizen Science - Research with Schools. Basics, recommendations & practical tips for joint projects") …
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Recognizing failures in citizen science projects: Lessons learned
Failures are an immanent part of academic processes driving research progress. Therefore, they are also present in citizen science projects. Still the research community tends to highlight the successes while …

Evaluation of participatory science and research
Science Together was initially a web portal developed by the Sorbonne University Alliance (SUA), a group of several institutions including the Sorbonne University and the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), …

Wayfinding and Urban Design From the Perspective of People Living …
In this perspective paper and ‘hearing the voice’ effort, two internationally recognized dementia advocates who are living with dementia, and three interdisciplinary researchers from the fields of environmental psychology, nursing …

SPOTTERON Citizen Science Platform
SPOTTERON is a fully customizable and reliable solution for your Citizen Science and volunteer monitoring projects. It can be fully adapted to your project's needs and is constantly updated and …

Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement in research – A …
This guide is for learning why and how to meaningfully involve patients and the public in research. In Chapter 1, you find a detailed description about what Patient and Public …

Short guide on patient partnerships in rare disease research projects
This guide has been developed with the help of a working group comprising of patient representatives and research funders and has been submitted for review by independent academic researchers. Its …

innOsci – Future Skills for Openness/ A framework for promoting …
This paper focuses on the question of which mindset, skills and tools academics in business (Open Innovation) and science (Open Science) as well as in their working environments in companies, …

Impact tools
These different materials and resources support research teams to plan and reflect on the societal impact of their research. The OIS Impact Model and Reflection Instruments help plan, monitor and …

Data Protection, Vulnerable Groups and Citizen Science: Protecting everyone's rights
In the first half of this interesting webinar, four experts share their views on data protection and vulnerable groups:
- Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the EDHEC …

Workshop: Engaging the society beyond data collection
The challenges of ocean monitoring require data from everywhere at all times, we need to involve society in all steps of the process to achieve the information necessary to implement …

What are the achievements of the citizen observatories in Cos4Cloud?
Citizen science projects provide an opportunity to learn science, share knowledge, and have fun while positively impacting society; from helping researchers to get a lot of biodiversity and environmental data to influencing environmental policies or monitoring the …