Jun 15, 2021 | News from our pilots
The Restart Project sourced and analysed environmental impact data on nearly 500 household products (primarily electrical and electronic devices) to reveal the environmental cost that many companies hide. Their results are shared here:...
Jun 9, 2021 | News from our pilots
A few days ago, the Restart Project has launched “TabiCat”, a fun opportunity to collaboratively analyse data on over 900 tablets brought to repair events around the world. The data comes from their Restart Parties, as well as datasets from other...
Jun 3, 2021 | News from our pilots
Humans share space with other creatures all the time, yet we often overlook how much effect plants have on the environment we share. Trees have a huge potential to affect the local and global environment, and research from the Crowther Lab in Zürich has suggested that...
Jun 1, 2021 | News on Citizen Science
CS Track aims at broadening our knowledge about Citizen Science and the impact Citizen Science activities can have. They published their first statistical results. You can find them here:...
May 30, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Cléa Montanari (DRIFT) & Sonja Grossberndt (NILU) Citizen science represents an opportunity for Norwegian policy-workers to engage citizens in policy making. But this practice is still rarely employed in Norway to benefit policies as the citizen science field...
May 26, 2021 | News on Citizen Science
By Roy van Grunsven The question: “How many birds are there?” seems very simple but it is hard to answer. You can’t simply count them. But there is data from citizens reporting bird observations around the world and using this scientist from the University of New...
May 22, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Ilaria Baroni – Cefriel During these weeks, the pilots involved in the second round of the ACTION accelerator are preparing the Data Quality plans for their projects. A template was created to guide them in the process, it was briefly introduced during the...
May 16, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel The dashboard with the information of the citizen science pilots running within the ACTION project has been updated with the information of the new six pilots that joined the second accelerator program. The six new pilots are:...
May 16, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Roy van Grunsven We have mentioned webinars that have been given by ACTION partners regularly in news items and many different topics have been discussed in the meantime. However, you run into problems at a different moment than the pilots in ACTION and therefore...
May 7, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Gefion Thuermer – KCL ACTION coordinator King’s College London is about to embark on a new project, exploring the use of data visualisation to tackle misinformation. Together with researchers from Google, KCL has recently won a grant from Nesta to run...
