Mar 19, 2021 | News from ACTION
Our toolkit is online! Based on our work with 16 Citizen Science pilots tackling various forms of pollution. The ACTION toolkit is the ultimate resource collection for everyone interested in doing citizen science the ACTION-way. About the toolkit The ACTION toolkit is...
Mar 10, 2021 | News from ACTION, News on Citizen Science
The UK has a long history of citizen scientists recording biodiversity, including moths. Together with professionally collected data this has resulted in the publication of The State of Britain’s Larger Moths 2021. There is a decline of 33% in the total number of...
Mar 2, 2021 | News from ACTION, News from our pilots
A dashboard displaying the summary information on citizen science pilots actually running within the ACTION project is now available on the ACTION website. The dashboard is divided in two main sections: the ACTION pilots and the volunteers involved. It displays a...
Mar 2, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Gloria Re Calegari and Esteban Gonzalez Guardia On March the 17th, the ACTION team will host an online event about how to prepare a Data Management Plan (DMP), a formal document that outlines how data are to be handled both during a research project, and after the...
Mar 1, 2021 | News from ACTION, News from our pilots
The ACTION team is happy to welcome onboard four new pilots that will kick off their activities today. The four new pilots have been selected in the second ACTION open call and will participate, together with one more resuming activities after a pause imposed by the...
Feb 26, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Gefion Thuermer – KCL The second ACTION open call closed on November 1st, with a total of 78 applications received. We have reviewed them, interviewed 18 applicants, selected our new pilots, and are just about to finish their plans for the second accelerator,...
Feb 20, 2021 | News, News from ACTION
By Elena Simper and Eddy Maddalena – KCL ACTION coordinator KCL participated in the Citizen Data Science workshop held on 12 March 2020 by the Royal Society in partnership with the Ada Lovelace Institute, the Alan Turing Institute, the British Academy, DataKind...
Feb 17, 2021 | News from our pilots
By Lucía García – UCM During the last decade, city councils have been renovating street lamps, mostly made of sodium vapor, with LEDs with the intention of saving energy. The main argument that has driven this change has been improving the efficiency of the...
Feb 10, 2021 | News from our pilots
By Lucía García & Jaime Zamorano – UCM Up to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, last January the 8th & 9th. The record-breaking snowfall triggered some unprecedented scenes in Madrid. The low temperatures kept the snow and ice piled up...
Jan 28, 2021 | News from ACTION, News from our pilots, News on Citizen Science
KCL recently published our deliverable outlining final guidelines and recommendations for the design of citizen science tasks, which will feed into the ACTION toolkit and resources for ACTION pilots and the wider community. The deliverable builds on our existing work...
