Feb 17, 2020 | News from ACTION
Today, the six projects selected by the first ACTION open call kick-off their activities in a dedicated 3 days event hosted by the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin. In the next months they will be working with the ACTION team by...
Feb 7, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
By Evan Groen – DRIFT Participants in citizen science projects are typically older.[1,2,3] 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.[2,3,4] Younger...
Jan 29, 2020 | News from ACTION
The ACTION first Open Call is now closed and 6 new citizen science projects have been selected. They will join the ACTION team for a few days’ workshop at the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries on the banks of Lake Müggelsee in...
Jan 28, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel OpenLitterMap empowers everyone with the tools to become an Open Citizen Scientist. By joining OpenLitterMap citizens can create a world with less plastic and toxic chemicals that risk to contaminate various plants and animals. By...
Jan 22, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
Traffic counts are essential as a basis for solutions to take action against air pollution. Unfortunately counting is currently expensive, limited in time, and rarely records all forms of transport (cars, heavy vehicles, public transport, cyclists and pedestrians)....
Jan 15, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
By Virginia de Pablo and Esteban González – UPM The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) published its “Strategic Implementation Plan” in 2019 with the idea of giving data science the importance it has. The EOSC is presented as an “open festival of science”,...
Dec 19, 2019 | News from our pilots
By Jaime Zamorano – UCM We are using two different approaches to characterize street lights. The first one is by observing the spectrum of the lamp with a grating on top of the smartphone camera: #StreetSpectra project. The other ACTION pilot project analyses...
Nov 30, 2019 | News on Citizen Science
Research on initiatives in Fukushima raise globally relevant questions for citizen science practice Citizen science projects about pollution often emerge in areas of contention between citizens and institutional or governmental actors: take vehicle emissions and urban...
Nov 20, 2019 | News on Citizen Science
In the concluding chapter of the book “Citizen science”, Bonn and colleagues argue that citizen science can lead to advances in science, policy, and society. ACTION partners T6 Ecosystems and DRIFT are building on these insights to investigate the ways in which...
