Nov 18, 2021 | News on Citizen Science
There is a big push at the moment, specifically for the monitoring of the SDGs, on how to integrate citizen science data in official statistics (e.g. see Fritz et al., 2019, Fraisl et al., 2020). However, this is taking a long time, and the value of citizen science to...
Nov 18, 2021 | News on Citizen Science
Citizen science can be beneficial for policy in many ways. For example, it enables a situation or an issue to be monitored at a relatively low cost compared to traditional ways of data collection directed by national statistical offices and it also directly engages...
Nov 4, 2021 | News from our pilots
November 18th 2021 11 – 13:00 CET How a citizen science project is organised isn’t often discussed. But the structure of a project and the team helps set the tone for engaging with citizen scientists. This year, the ACTION Accelerator hosted Open Soil...
Oct 18, 2021 | News from ACTION
The future of citizen science: sharing experiences from the European community will be a gathering of the global citizen science community full of exciting talks, sharing of experiences, stimulating debates and informal networking moments. You will hear from a great...
Oct 15, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Drift When talking with policymakers, don’t talk citizen science. Start discussing real problems, and then how citizen science as a tool can help to solve them. Finally, we could gather safely in real life for one of our ACTION policy masterclasses: in Barcelona,...
