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Leading a ‘Train the Trainer’ workshop
This is a free course for citizen science practitioners looking to employ ‘Train the Trainer’ within their project or activity. Train the Trainer (TTT) is a learning method that equips …
Social media management for citizen science projects
This course is designed to guide citizen science practitioners on how to take the most advantage of social media platforms for their citizen science projects. Prior experience with social media …
Evaluation and Impact Assessment in Citizen Science Projects
This free course gives an overview of different approaches to evaluation and impact assessment for citizen science projects and presents a set of instruments and how these have been applied …
Doing citizen science as open science: what, why and how
This is a high-level course introducing the ethical imperative for conducting citizen science as open science, including what open science is and how its outputs and processes can be incorporated …
Research integrity, ethics and the SDGs within the context of …
This course provides an introduction to the very important idea of research integrity which we link to ethics, the Sustainable Development Goals and to Citizen Science. On completion of this …
Estrategias y herramientas de comunicación aplicadas a proyectos de ciencia …
This is a free course for anyone wishing to learn about the different approaches for engaging citizens as stakeholders and learn basic techniques of communication for disseminating your citizen science …
Training programs to build capacity for collaborative innovation processes
The EU Horizon 2020 research project „RiConfigure“ investigated what makes collaborative innovation processes between the public sector, industry, academia and civil society successful.
The project developed three training programs based …
Science Communication MOOC
This course explains why science communication is important and what it looks like in practice. It also teaches you the basic concepts and fundamental skills you need to master science …
A Guide to using Social Media in your Citizen Science …
A report on the importance of social media use for citizen science, some descriptions of types of social media, how to use social media to achieve such goals as spreading …
Citizen Science – Motivations, Progression and Accreditation
This report provides an insight into Citizen Science motivations, progression routes and investigates whether formal accreditation would benefit Citizen Science participants and add value to the data collected. It looks …
Lessons from citizen science for community engagement practice
A lively blogpost which may be very useful to the citizen science practitioner interested in creating a community of citizen scientists. It emphasises the importance of people building something together, …
The Conservation Volunteers' Guide to Engaging Volunteers in Citizen Science …
A guide based on research in Scotland in engaging people in Citizen Science, particularly in the area of conservation. It looks at who gets involved and why, recruitment methods, engagement …
Phenology recording with young children
A report on a pilot study of teaching young children how to undertake a phenology survey at a garden centre in Scotland. It reports the methodology used, difficulties encountered, and …
Citizen Science in the Classroom: A toolkit
This is a free course that benefits from access to the lessons learned from COMPASS, a citizen science project funded by the Spanish Government and aimed to evaluate the usability …
Citizen Science Projects: How to Make a Difference (Part 1)
This is the first of a four-part course designed for anyone that wants to understand the environment and other global challenges and help create a change. You need no prior …
Citizen Science Projects: How to Make a Difference (Part 2)
This is the second of a four-part course. In this part we will (1) help you to decide what data you need to collect as part of your project, and …
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