Jun 12, 2020 | News from ACTION, News from our pilots
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel Cefriel’s team submitted a paper about Coney to the ISWC 2020 Conference (International Semantic Web Conference), a virtual conference that will take place from 2nd to 6th November 2020. Coney is a conversational survey tool...
Jun 5, 2020 | News from ACTION
Virginia de Pablo and Esteban González – The Ontology Engineering Group (OEG/UPM) Last month of March, the Ontological Engineering Group implemented the first release of the ACTION open data portal. The idea is of this portal is to present the outcomes that the...
May 31, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
The ALAN conference series is dedicated to examining all aspects of artificial light at night. The broad scope of the conference includes how light is produced, where it is present, what effects it has on humans and the environment, how it is perceived by the public...
May 12, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
Citizen science interventions are becoming more and more relevant across all scientific disciplines and the humanities and it can potentially bring a wide variety of benefits to researchers, citizens, policy makers and society across the research and innovation cycle....
May 7, 2020 | News from our pilots
Sonic Kayak is one of the six projects funded by the first ACTION Open Call. The Sonic Kayak system is a low cost open hardware for gathering and mapping fine-scale marine environmental data, which has not been previously possible to obtain. Data is sonified through...
Apr 22, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
By Kat Austen – IGB Today is Earth Day, and across the world citizen science projects are coming together to push for a healthier planet. We’re delighted that our ACTION Accelerator project In My Backyard is participating with a drive to find out about...
Apr 16, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
Participants in Citizen Science projects are typically older. The average age of the volunteers is around 50 years old which makes sense as a lack of time is the most commonly stated barrier to participation. Younger individuals can be busy with school and work...
