About RadoNorm RadoNorm is a Euratom research and training project that supports local communities and citizens to launch citizen science projects in the field of radon. For this, four pilot citizen science projects are developed and tested in France, Ireland, Norway, and Hungary. The results of the pilot projects will help to develop recommendations for empowering citizen [...]
Citizen Science has been bubbling beneath the surface for some time and is reaching now a growing presence and influence in the scientific and participation scenario, locally and in the global context. Focusing on the international scene, Clàudia Fabó Cartas and Prof. Muki Haklay conversate in this new podcast episode on the level of recognition and relevance of citizen [...]
New year, new podcast. Earlier this month, the new podcast series "Exploring Citizen Science: Can research and society be (re)connected?" was launched. It is a podcast that explores the world of Citizen Science, as a discipline and philosophy. Host and journalist Alexander Damiano Ricci travels across Europe and holds interviews with researchers and project managers [...]
The Horizon IMPETUS project is proving as of today an excellent opportunity for the citizen science community. On the 10th of January 2023, at 12:00 CET, the 1st IMPETUS Open Call is being launched. IMPETUS is a Citizen Science project that supports citizen science by enabling a wider range of citizen science initiatives (CSIs) to [...]
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 [...]
