Jan 18, 2021 | News from ACTION, News on Citizen Science
We are proud to be one of three citizen science projects featured in the European Commission video “Citizen Science: Opening up science to society“! Opening up science to society is essential to enrich research and to reinforce society’s trust in science and...
Jan 7, 2021 | News from ACTION
The ACTION project launches the second edition of its Accelerator for citizen science projects with a kick-off meeting starting on 11 January and ending on 15 January 2021! The event will address some of the most important topics for citizen science projects:...
Dec 20, 2020 | News from ACTION
By Igno Notermans – DRIFT What are best practices on how policymakers and citizen scientists work together? How does citizen science try to reach out to policy processes? And what kind of policy support is available for citizen science? Questions that might...
Dec 15, 2020 | News from our pilots
By Annelli Janssen – DRIFT How can citizen science change business-as-usual and make science more open, inclusive and citizen-led? This is one of the questions that ACTION asks. We use the transformative impact tool to assess the potential of citizen science...
Dec 4, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
By Ilaria Baroni – Cefriel Artificial Intelligence is more and more present in everyday applications and services, and the end-users are getting acquainted with it. Cefriel is involved in research studies related to the user acceptance of such technologies, to...
Dec 2, 2020 | News from ACTION
by Roy van Grunsven Within ACTION we study the effect of pesticides in water on dragonflies. Pesticides are often linked to agriculture but are also used outside of agriculture. One of these uses is as flea bands for dogs and cats. A recent paper in Science of the...
Nov 23, 2020 | News from ACTION
By Gefion Thuermer – King’s College London ACTION coordinator King’s College London is hosting the Data Stories Symposium 2020 on 26th & 27th November. In two half-days of presentations and workshops, participants at this free online event can...
Nov 20, 2020 | News from ACTION
ACTIONs primary investigator, Professor Elena Simperl, co-chaired this year’s AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP2020). For five days at the end of October, researchers and practitioners from all over the world and a variety of fields...
Nov 15, 2020 | News from ACTION
The programme of our FREE webinar “Let’s talk about money! #CitizenScience and financial sustainability” is now available: https://bit.ly/citizenscience-money We are very much looking forward to discussing with our speakers about how customer social...
Nov 4, 2020 | News from ACTION
On November the 19th ACTION team will host an online event with experts exploring different path towards financial sustainability. Are you a citizen science project looking for the right mix between public and private funding? Do you want to learn more on how to get...
