May 3, 2021 | News from our pilots
How can a design and creative approach help us re-discover and re-imagine the places we live in? It has been just over a year since in 2020 Rio Neiva – Environmental NGO implemented a citizen science pilot project titled “In My Backyard”, supported...
May 2, 2021 | News from our pilots
By Jaime Zamorano & Rafael Fuentetaja Light pollution is estimated from nocturnal measures of sky brightness and color. The research teams use cameras with astronomical color filters. These professional devices are very expensive and this is why only some...
Apr 29, 2021 | News on Citizen Science
ZSI is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of the FTeval Journal: Participatory Evaluation and Impact Assessment in Citizen Science https://www.fteval.at/content/home/journal/aktuelles/fteval-Journal_54_Special-Issue_Citizen-Science.pdf We...
Apr 22, 2021 | News from our pilots
To celebrate Earth Day 2021, The Restart Project is launching PrintCat, a people-powered investigation into why printers break so often. They want to understand why printers fail so that we can tell policymakers how future models can be made to last longer and be...
Apr 16, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Annelli Janssen and Igno Notermans (DRIFT) Policy makers and scientists are paying more and more attention to citizen science: the participation of ‘ordinary citizens’ in scientific research. The public can make an important contribution to sustainability issues...
Apr 12, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Clea Montanari & Annelli Janssen Citizen science offers specific benefits for policy, such as environmental monitoring capacity, the increase of citizens capacity to participate and self-organize around issues, and increase the social relevance of policy. One...
Apr 12, 2021 | News, News on Citizen Science
By Antonella Passani – T6 Ecosystems Un bloom di meduse, trascinate dalla corrente, ha colorato di rosa in queste ore lo specchio d’acqua su cui affaccia il centro di Trieste, tra il molo Audace e la stazione marittima. Un’invasione che non è passata inosservata...
Apr 7, 2021 | News from our pilots
By Kat Austen and Sibylle Schroer In Tatort Streetlight’s multi-year research project, the team are investigating the connections between nocturnal darkness or brightness and the behaviour of humans and nature. The model regions are northern and western Brandenburg,...
Mar 30, 2021 | News on Citizen Science
By Roy van Grunsven Citizen Science has frequently been instrumental in putting topics on the scientific and political agenda. One very clear recent example is the insect decline in Germany, based on citizen science it was discovered that there was a 76% decline in...
Mar 20, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Igno Notermans & Annelli Janssen Policy makers and scientists are paying more and more attention to citizen science: the participation of ‘ordinary citizens’ in scientific research. The public can make an important contribution to sustainability issues such as...
