citizenscience.eu blog

Francisco Sanz, July 26, 2020, 10:59 p.m.

The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how important it is for research institutions around the globe to cooperate in order to achieve the same goal. Indeed, cooperation has turned out to be crucial in order to develop diagnostics, vaccines and treatments to tackle health emergencies such as COVID-19.

Francisco Sanz, July 26, 2020, 10:42 p.m.

Asking people to stay at home does not sound like a great sacrifice. But what happens when staying at home is not pleasant, or even safe? In our project, D-NOSES, we like to think we defend the direct environment in which we live and spend most of our time – our homes, neighbourhoods, and cities.

Francisco Sanz, July 26, 2020, 10:31 p.m.

In an attempt to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and to explore co-creation through digital platforms and tools, two CoAct partners (Universitat de Barcelona and Federació Salut Mental Catalunya) developed the CoActFrenaLaCurva project devoted to investigate the mental health informal support networks in times of Coronavirus.

Francisco Sanz, July 26, 2020, 3:56 p.m.

A new citizen science research and innovation project has produced its first public report: best methods in citizen science engagement.

Francisco Sanz, July 26, 2020, 3:47 p.m.

Free and voluntary active citizen participation can take place at various levels: from simple data collection to the construction of tools such as low-cost sensors, to data analysis, to design of research protocols, and the identification of the topics to be investigated.

Lucie Steigleder July 24, 2020, 4:10 p.m.

Jessica Hafetz Mirman from the University of Edinburgh worked on the elaboration of a Citizen Science app during the lockdown period.

Lucie Steigleder July 19, 2020, 12:03 p.m.

Chris Lintott, co-founder of Zooniverse, shares how the platform had to adapt to the COVID pandemic.

Margaret Gold, July 17, 2020, 8:25 a.m.

It is part of our mandate within the EU-Citizen.Science project to take stock of the vast number of existing tools, guidelines and other materials available in and for citizen science, and to highlight, curate and organise those that are high quality and represent best practice in the field.

Francisco Sanz, July 10, 2020, 8:22 a.m.

Citizen science could help track progress towards all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An IIASA-led study, for the first time, comprehensively analyzed the current and potential contribution of citizen science data to monitor the SDGs at the indicator level.

Francisco Sanz, July 7, 2020, 8:33 a.m.

The REINFORCE project (Research Infrastructures FOR Citizens in Europe), supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 SWAFS programme, has launched its new fully-developed website.

Francisco Sanz, June 23, 2020, 2:05 p.m.

We are delighted to have hosted the first of what we hope will become a series of regular online events enabling the citizen science and learning community to share their work and raise awareness of projects, research and resources with each other and the wider citizen science community. This webinar was initiated by members of the ECSA working group on “Learning and Education in Citizen Science” and the Citizen Science COST Action WG2 - Develop synergies with education.

Tim Woods June 17, 2020, 9:04 a.m.

One aim of the Panelfit project is to increase the quantity and quality of the information available about ethical and legal issues posed by ICTs – to policy-makers, professionals, journalists and the general public. A major output for the latter group will be a citizens’ information pack, which will include a version tailored to the needs of vulnerable groups.