About the deliverable Last month, the synergising TIME4CS project has published D2.1, "Compilation of roadmaps and Grounding Actions for the Implementers". It is the first version of a document that presents the project's roadmaps on how to achieve Institutional Changes for embedding Citizen Science practices. The roadmaps have been developed by the project’s four Implementers with the [...]
About the report The new report titled "Enabling open science and societal engagement in research" was just published. Last month, the report, written Richard Owen, was made available by the Publications Office of the European Union and is openly accessible. You can download the report here. The report focuses on Open Science and societal engagement [...]
EU-Citizen.Science is coming to an end The EU-Citizen.Science project is coming to an end. After 36 months, the project managed to successfully build a knowledge hub for citizen science in Europe. Yet, the project has done way more than that. To name just a few achievements, EU-Citizen.Science has established collaboration with the most relevant citizen [...]
How to run successfully a Citizen Science project? Despite the prominence of Citizen Science as a form of designing, conducting, evaluating, and assessing participatory science, its successful implementation should not be taken for granted. Obstacles and challenges - such as attrition, low motivation, suspiciousness, lack of equipment and leadership - are some of the most [...]
What is the report about? In its recent report, which was published in May 20210, the Joint Research Center of European Commission explores the factors that are associated with increased engagement with Citizen Science, and how these factors can be positively leveraged. The combination of civic inertia and public disengagement that have been caused by [...]
The 1st newsletter of the INCENTIVE project will be issued soon! Since the project has already completed its first semester - the KoM took virtually place on February 2021 - and as the summer vacations break is over, our team is preparing for a fresh and dynamic start in autumn. A lot of activities [...]
Call for papers The fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation has reserved the upcoming special Issue Number 54 for mid-2022, which will be dedicated to participatory evaluation in citizen science. As such, the Journal welcomes academic and practice-oriented contributions dealing with the evaluation of RTI policies. These may be specific results of evaluation [...]
On Friday, 2nd of July, 2021, the INCENTIVE consortium met for the project's second consortium meeting (in a genuine summer mood). Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was held virtually and hosted successfully by the University of Twente (Design Lab), the coordinator of the project. The meeting marked the end of the 1st [...]
If you are a citizen from Greece, Spain, Lithuania, or the Netherlands, this is your chance to express your opinion, views, and concerns on Citizen Science! In order to set up the Citizen Science Hubs in the involved Universities, first we have to better understand the current landscape of citizen science in each local ecosystem. [...]
9-10 February 2021, Online meeting We are happy to announce that a new H2020 SwafS (Science with and for Society) project started in February! INCENTIVE was launched in a 2-day kick-off meeting held on 9-10 February 2021 virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic and facilitated by the DesignLab (Universiteit Twente – UT) and the project [...]