Oct 13, 2020 | News from our pilots
This year ACTION’s FVB-IGB team worked with students at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute to co-develop with citizen science projects a set of Diversity and Inclusion Guidelines for Citizen Science. These guidelines have now been used in the design of a new online...
Oct 8, 2020 | News from our pilots
Calling all insect experts, insect enthusiasts and light pollution patrollers! ACTION project Tatort Streetlight is seeking citizen scientists to join in their exciting project looking at the effect of streetlight design on flying insect populations. Whether you are...
Oct 2, 2020 | News from our pilots
The Festival for Art, Technology and Society “Ars Electronica” is an internationally platform for digital art and media culture that enjoys a worldwide reputation. This year’s edition took place from September the 9th to the 13th, and for the first time, it happened...
Sep 29, 2020 | News from our pilots
Good news from Sonic Kayak pilot! The project has been showcased in The MagPi issue 98, the official Raspberry Pi magazine. «While gathering valuable environmental data, this waterborne sensor system plays ambient sounds.» The Raspberry Pi magazine article came out,...
Sep 25, 2020 | News from our pilots
Citizen science engage students in meaningful science research that addresses real world issues and leads to scientific advancement. We would like to invite school students to contribute to one particular project. We intend to generate awareness about the problem of...
Sep 23, 2020 | News from ACTION
Citizens all around Europe are showing growing interest in participatory activities: their engagement not only in social movements and voluntary associations, but also in science-related activities such as citizen science are clear signs of their willingness to be...
Sep 23, 2020 | News from our pilots
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel Coney, the toolkit for designing, administering and analysing results of conversational surveys has been made available on Github (https://github.com/cefriel/coney ). Both the code and the documentation has been released on the...
Sep 22, 2020 | News from ACTION
Presentation of the ACTION (Elena Simperl) and TERRIFICA Projects sessions during the European Week of Regions and Cities 2020 at the Coffee with Partners produced by the European Committee of the Regions and the European Commission (DG REGIO). On October 8th...
Sep 10, 2020 | News from ACTION
The ACTION team presented two e-posters at the ECSA 2020 conference on the 7th of September 2020. The conference was very successful and the posters were very appreciated by the audience. One poster presented the impact CS can have on UN Sustainable Development Goals...
Sep 8, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
The iOS-version of GRECO Citizen Science app GENERATION SOLAR is out today The app is the result of a unique collaboration between researchers, Citizen Scientists and IT-specialists. It acts – among others – as a database for rooftop solar energy installations. GRECO...
