Apr 12, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Clea Montanari & Annelli Janssen Citizen science offers specific benefits for policy, such as environmental monitoring capacity, the increase of citizens capacity to participate and self-organize around issues, and increase the social relevance of policy. One...
Apr 7, 2021 | News from our pilots
By Kat Austen and Sibylle Schroer In Tatort Streetlight’s multi-year research project, the team are investigating the connections between nocturnal darkness or brightness and the behaviour of humans and nature. The model regions are northern and western Brandenburg,...
Mar 30, 2021 | News on Citizen Science
By Roy van Grunsven Citizen Science has frequently been instrumental in putting topics on the scientific and political agenda. One very clear recent example is the insect decline in Germany, based on citizen science it was discovered that there was a 76% decline in...
Mar 20, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Igno Notermans & Annelli Janssen Policy makers and scientists are paying more and more attention to citizen science: the participation of ‘ordinary citizens’ in scientific research. The public can make an important contribution to sustainability issues such as...
Mar 19, 2021 | News from ACTION
Our toolkit is online! Based on our work with 16 Citizen Science pilots tackling various forms of pollution. The ACTION toolkit is the ultimate resource collection for everyone interested in doing citizen science the ACTION-way. About the toolkit The ACTION toolkit is...
Mar 10, 2021 | News from ACTION, News on Citizen Science
The UK has a long history of citizen scientists recording biodiversity, including moths. Together with professionally collected data this has resulted in the publication of The State of Britain’s Larger Moths 2021. There is a decline of 33% in the total number of...
Mar 2, 2021 | News from ACTION, News from our pilots
A dashboard displaying the summary information on citizen science pilots actually running within the ACTION project is now available on the ACTION website. The dashboard is divided in two main sections: the ACTION pilots and the volunteers involved. It displays a...
Mar 2, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Gloria Re Calegari and Esteban Gonzalez Guardia On March the 17th, the ACTION team will host an online event about how to prepare a Data Management Plan (DMP), a formal document that outlines how data are to be handled both during a research project, and after the...
Mar 1, 2021 | News from ACTION, News from our pilots
The ACTION team is happy to welcome onboard four new pilots that will kick off their activities today. The four new pilots have been selected in the second ACTION open call and will participate, together with one more resuming activities after a pause imposed by the...
Feb 26, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Gefion Thuermer – KCL The second ACTION open call closed on November 1st, with a total of 78 applications received. We have reviewed them, interviewed 18 applicants, selected our new pilots, and are just about to finish their plans for the second accelerator,...
