Cos4Cloud: its story and legacy for the citizen science community …
Check out the interactive infographic of Cos4Cloud to understand the project's journey, achievements and results. It explains the Cos4Cloud story from the beginning until the end in a few interactive …
senseBox - Toolkit for digital education, citizen science and environmental …
The modular senseBox kits (senseBox:home, senseBox:edu, senseBox:mini and CO2 lights) are used in digital education, citizen science and professional environmental data collection. An easy-to-program microcontroller is …
Cos4Cloud final project event: its legacy for the citizen science …
Cos4Cloud is an EU-funded project that has co-designed, prototyped and implemented several new tools, methodologies and services that address the technological challenges shared by citizen observatories. These services can help …
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 …
Writing citizen science project descriptions that spark interest and attract …
Project descriptions, often found on citizen science platforms, are the gateway for citizen scientists to engage with projects. They provide the first glimpse into what a selected project is about, …
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, …
Training Materials- Ready to Use Materials for Citizen Science initiatives
This document at hand is a ready to use compilation of training materials dedicated for supporting citizen science initiatives. This output of the Step Change project is addressed to those …
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 …
OSDG Community Dataset (OSDG-CD)
The OSDG Community Dataset (OSDG-CD) is a public dataset of thousands of text excerpts, which were validated by approximately 1,000 OSDG Community Platform citizen scientists from over 110 countries, with …
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, …
Inclusivity in Citizen Science Workshop
This workshop is the second of a series of webinars that aim to address diversity in citizen science. It is co-organised by four partners: ECSA, the ECSA & Living Knowledge Network …
.jpg.306x204_q85_crop.png)
How dominant white culture manifests in citizen science – Diversity …
During 2021, ECSA is hosting a series of workshops looking at different aspects of diversity and inclusiveness in citizen science. This first workshop was led by the Natural History Museum …
Introducing Cos4Cloud – ECSA & EU-Citizen.Science webinar #9
One of the biggest challenges of citizen science is the quality of data, as well as maintaining the citizen observatories used to collect this data. The Cos4Cloud (Co-designed citizen observatories for the EOS-Cloud) project is addressing …
Communication in Citizen Science: A practical guide to communication and …
Citizen science is a vast field. It covers the spectrum of research approaches and offers different methods for engaging volunteers with research in a variety of ways. Common to every …
.jpg.306x204_q85_crop.png)
The Diversity of Participants in Environmental Citizen Science
"Reported benefits of environmental citizen science include the collection of large volumes of data, knowledge and skills gained by participants, local action, and policy influence. However, it is unclear how …