Dec 6, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel The study conducted within the ACTION accelerator program to investigate the motivation of volunteers to participate in citizen science initiatives ended in October. The main goal was to understand the reasons that encourage...
Nov 30, 2021 | News from our pilots
The Science Week in Madrid is one of Europe’s most important scientific events. Its main objective is to make science and technology more accessible to the general public. It takes place over two weeks, and includes over 500 activities, workshops, exhibitions,...
Nov 26, 2021 | News from our pilots
By Jaime Zamorano & Lucía García – UCM The efforts for spreading the Street Spectra project are more visible than ever. Thanks to the collaboration of the astronomy association “Astroguada” 8 schools have signed up to involve their students on the project....
Nov 18, 2021 | News on Citizen Science
There is a big push at the moment, specifically for the monitoring of the SDGs, on how to integrate citizen science data in official statistics (e.g. see Fritz et al., 2019, Fraisl et al., 2020). However, this is taking a long time, and the value of citizen science to...
Nov 18, 2021 | News on Citizen Science
Citizen science can be beneficial for policy in many ways. For example, it enables a situation or an issue to be monitored at a relatively low cost compared to traditional ways of data collection directed by national statistical offices and it also directly engages...
Nov 4, 2021 | News from our pilots
November 18th 2021 11 – 13:00 CET How a citizen science project is organised isn’t often discussed. But the structure of a project and the team helps set the tone for engaging with citizen scientists. This year, the ACTION Accelerator hosted Open Soil...
Oct 18, 2021 | News from ACTION
The future of citizen science: sharing experiences from the European community will be a gathering of the global citizen science community full of exciting talks, sharing of experiences, stimulating debates and informal networking moments. You will hear from a great...
Oct 15, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Drift When talking with policymakers, don’t talk citizen science. Start discussing real problems, and then how citizen science as a tool can help to solve them. Finally, we could gather safely in real life for one of our ACTION policy masterclasses: in Barcelona,...
Oct 8, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel The paper “The Survey Ontology: Packaging Survey Research as Research Objects” has been accepted at the DaMaLOS 2021 workshop, an event co-located with ISWC 2021. The paper describes the Survey Ontology designed to...
Sep 20, 2021 | News from ACTION
In collaboration with the researchers of the University of Sheffield (UK), the ACTION team of King’s College London’s are investigating the presence of cognitive biases in an experiment on crowdsourcing and citizen science. Such phenomena are defined as systematic...
