Cos4Cloud and its services for the citizen science community
Cos4Cloud is a EU-funded project that is co-designing, prototyping and implementing a number of new tools and services that address the technological challenges shared by citizen observatories. These services can …
Citizen Science for Policy across Europe
EU-Citizen.Science invited representatives from ministries across Europe and at the regional and local levels to engage in a discussion about citizen science and its benefits for policy making. The main …
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The future of citizen science: sharing experiences from the European …
In November 2021, the EU-Citizen.Science project and the ACTION project co-organised “The future of citizen science: sharing experiences from the European community”, that aimed at sharing experiences and stimulating debates …
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 …
UNICA-EUTOPIA TRAIN Webinar: How to engage citizens in your research?
During the webinar, several international experts shared their experiences with citizen science projects. They inspired the audience with their insights on how to build and keep sustainable relationships and fruitful …
UNICA-EUTOPIA TRAIN Webinar: Successful strategies in applying for citizen science …
Finding funding for citizen science projects is not always easy. Funding bodies or calls have a different and specific focus and different requirements.
Not surprisingly, when asked, researchers wanting to …
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 …
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 …
Monitoring plant biodiversity with Pl@ntNet
One of the Cos4Cloud partners, the Environmental Education Lab (EEL), a research center based at the Department of Educational Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), organized …
Introduction to taxonomy: documenting biodiversity
In this video Jérôme Constant – entomologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - and Joachim Bresseel – Citizen Scientist – explain the fundamentals of taxonomy building on their …
What’s new in citizen science training: from open science to …
EU-Citizen.Science contains a wide array of free, self-directed training modules on citizen science on its Moodle page. The themes of the training modules range from introduction to citizen science …
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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 …
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New Citizen Science Projects in 2021 – ECSA & EU-Citizen.Science …
This webinar highlighted new citizen science projects starting in 2021, with short talks from three early career researchers. First, Famke Mölenberg (Erasmus MC, Netherlands), gives an overview of the SEEDS …