Apr 5, 2022 | News from ACTION
If you are looking for tools, guidelines and case studies for your Citizen Science project this is the place to go: https://actionproject.eu/toolkit/ The ACTION toolkit for participatory science is the ultimate resource collection for everyone interested in running...
Apr 3, 2022 | News from ACTION
by Kat Austen, IGB Scientific research is widely held as the bastion of knowledge production. As citizen science become firmly entrenched in research practice, what is the impact on science? Citizen Science has become popular not only in terms of data gathering and...
Jan 26, 2022 | News from our pilots
By Jaime Zamorano & Lucía García – UCM Imagine a movie that includes 50-100 pictures of the sky every single night. A snapshot of the sky brightness progress. That’s the idea behind the AZOTEA project The cameras of our collaborators monitor the night sky...
Jan 25, 2022 | News from ACTION
How can we make citizen science to live up to its potential to bridge science, society, and policy? How can it help our governments and administrations to make sensible policies in relation to grand societal challenges, ranging from biodiversity loss to bad air...
Jan 24, 2022 | News from our pilots
By Jaime Zamorano & Lucía García – UCM Citizen science is a growing field that is generating new knowledge through the collaboration of citizens in scientific research. As this field expands it has started showing that it can be integrated into education in...
Jan 2, 2022 | News from ACTION
By Annelli Janssen – DRIFT One might wonder if citizen science amounts to ‘real science’. How can a group of untrained volunteers do something that academics have studied so hard for? ACTION proved the sceptics wrong: all pilots in ACTION’s accelerator program...
Dec 26, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Igno Notermans – DRIFT Curious to read our recommendations to mainstream citizen science? A preview! During the final policy masterclass at the end of the final combined events of ACTION and EU-citizen.science we presented the recommendations to mainstream...
Dec 21, 2021 | News from ACTION
On 24th and 25th November 2021 ACTION held its final conference in collaboration with the EU-Citizen.Science project. The future of citizen science: sharing experiences from the European community was a great opportunity for reciprocal learning and for meeting new...
Dec 15, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Mario Scrocca – Cefriel Linked Open Data is structured data, openly published, that emphasizes the connections between different data. The survey research data, collected within the ACTION study on the motivation of citizen science participants...
Dec 13, 2021 | News from our pilots
One of the challenges in CS projects is to feed our projects with new tasks. ACTION makes a platform to execute workflows available to pilots. Workflows are sequences of tasks executed to complete a process. In the context of CS projects, these workflows can be used...
