As the INCENTIVE project came to an end on January 2024, the pilot Citizen Science Hub of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has launched a newsletter (in Greek) that reports the impact of the Citizen Science activities on the local ecosystem in the aftermath of the project. You can access and download the newsletter here.
About the Forum On the 26th and 27th of September 2023, INCENTIVE was represented by the VGTU team in the 1st Athena Technology Forum. The Forum was organised by the European University Alliance ATHENA from the 25th to the 29th of September 2023. The Department of Nutrition & Dietetics of HMU hosted the event in [...]
About the Handbook Sister project YouCount has recently published the "Handbook of Youth Citizen Social Science". The Handbook, and its toolkit, build on the experiences from the project (2021-2023) and represent a unique contribution to the field of citizen social science. It is, overall, an exercise on social science communication that can be useful to [...]
"It is time for Citizen Science!" š Our sister project TIME4CS has recently issued a statement to encourage Institutional Changes to promoteĀ Citizen Science. š¹ The statement is aimed at supporting and facilitating the implementation of sustainable Institutional Changes in Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) to promote Citizen Science and public engagement (citizens and citizens associations) inĀ scienceĀ andĀ technology. [...]
The IMPETUS sister project has now launched its 2nd call for Citizen Science projects! The 2nd Joint Open Call is now open for: The IMPETUS Accelerator Programme European Union Prize for citizen science. More information about the call, application process, Q&A and award criteria can be found here. First part - the Accelerator Programme: It [...]
The European Horizon All Data 4 Green Deal (AD4GD) project is part of a larger European Commission initiative to establish the common European Green Deal Data Space (GDDS) that will interconnect currently fragmented and dispersed data from various ecosystems, both for and from the private and public sectors. Its mission is to co-create and shape [...]
Exciting news! The EUTOPIA Citizen Science Starter KitĀ version 2.0 was just issued. The Starter Kit addresses to researchers who are (relatively) new to citizen science, curious to learn more, as well as to those who plan to start a citizen science project, and looking for practical guidance. You can access and donwload the Kit here. [...]
About the paper Recently, the CLIMAS project presented a scientific paper titled āFraming Citizen Science for Climate Assembliesā at the SpliTech 2023 Conference, arrived at the 8th edition of the 4-day conference organised by the University of Split (FESB) in Split and Bol (island of Brac) Croatia, between June 20-23, 2023. Find the paper here. [...]
The EUTOPIA-TRAIN initiative is sharing some exciting news and, more importantly, resources that have a strong value proposition to the European Citizen Science community. During the EUTOPIA-TRAIN project, a series of 8 Citizen Science Clinics were organised. These aimed to support the members of their community of practice by providing them with opportunities for exchange [...]
Vilnius, Lithuania, 20th of June 2023. In the framework of the 6th consortium meeting of INCENTIVE, which took place in Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, in Lithuania, on the 19th and 20th of June, representatives of the four Citizen Science Hubs of the project signed a landmark Memorandum of Collaboration to mutually commit their Hubs towards [...]
