Sep 9, 2021 | News from our pilots
By Jaime Zamorano & Lucía García – UCM A year and a half ago, Spain became one of the first countries to go into lockdown. A group of researchers from Universidad Complutense de Madrid took this opportunity to study the variation of the brightness and color...
Aug 11, 2021 | News from ACTION, News from our pilots
By Kat Austen – IGB This week Open Soil Atlas presented their project at the Emergent Berlin Festival. The festival, ongoing through 2021, focusses on the topic of transformation in multiple senses. For the month of August’s focus on ecological change, ACTION...
Aug 9, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Kat Austen – IGB The consequences of climate change are spreading and becoming more tangible for many. In the last months, wildfires have ravaged the Mediterranean, heatwaves have spread across the Pacific Northwest and Siberia, while floods have devastated...
Jul 27, 2021 | News from our pilots
BattCat is a people-powered investigation into why devices with battery problems can be so difficult to fix. Restart Project wants to understand why they fail so that we can tell policymakers how future models can be made to last longer and be easier to repair. After...
Jul 24, 2021 | News from ACTION
On 24 June, ACTION held its third masterclass to leverage citizen science for policy, this time in the UK. In this masterclass, participants pitched citizen science questions, and it showed how diverse the stakeholders involved in citizen science are and how it...
Jul 23, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel Volunteers participate in citizen science initiatives for several reasons: personal enjoyment, desire for personal improvement or achievement, establishment of personal relationships, care for the environment, etc. Studying...
Jul 16, 2021 | News from ACTION
A new, enriched version of the ACTION toolkit is now available! If you are looking for tools, guidelines, activities and case studies for your Citizen Science project this is the place to go: https://actionproject.eu/toolkit/ The ACTION toolkit provides a selection of...
Jul 14, 2021 | News from our pilots
Walk Up Aniene just ended the first phase and collected more than 60 questionnaires. What a success! Now it’s the time for the second phase: the partecipatory review and analysis of the data. This phase aims to draft a report with the main results of our research...
Jul 5, 2021 | News from our pilots
One of the Starlight Foundation “Astronomical Monitors and Guides” training courses took place at Sigüenza during the week of 28 of June. The Medieval City of Sigüenza has become one of the main tourist destinations in Castilla la Mancha. It was declared a...
Jun 18, 2021 | News from our pilots
By Kat Austen (IGB) ACTION Accelerator project Open Soil Atlas is working with Berlin communities to map soil quality using DIY soil testing methods. Since starting in the ACTION Accelerator, they have been working with Berlin allotment organisations, garden...
