Jan 18, 2021 | News from ACTION, News on Citizen Science
We are proud to be one of three citizen science projects featured in the European Commission video “Citizen Science: Opening up science to society“! Opening up science to society is essential to enrich research and to reinforce society’s trust in science and...
Jan 7, 2021 | News from ACTION
The ACTION project launches the second edition of its Accelerator for citizen science projects with a kick-off meeting starting on 11 January and ending on 15 January 2021! The event will address some of the most important topics for citizen science projects:...
Jan 3, 2021 | News from our pilots
By Roy van Grunsven One field of research where citizen scientists has been very important for a long time is the monitoring of biodiversity. There are several initiatives to stimulate monitoring of biodiversity in Europe. One of these is ABLE of Butterfly...
Dec 28, 2020 | News from ACTION, News from our pilots
To build a Research Object, ACTION has developed and applied a methodology based on two stages: 1) In the first stage, we need to identify the resources and the relations between the elements that compose each research object. To start characterizing each research...
Dec 20, 2020 | News from ACTION
By Igno Notermans – DRIFT What are best practices on how policymakers and citizen scientists work together? How does citizen science try to reach out to policy processes? And what kind of policy support is available for citizen science? Questions that might...
Dec 15, 2020 | News from our pilots
By Annelli Janssen – DRIFT How can citizen science change business-as-usual and make science more open, inclusive and citizen-led? This is one of the questions that ACTION asks. We use the transformative impact tool to assess the potential of citizen science...
Dec 4, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
By Ilaria Baroni – Cefriel Artificial Intelligence is more and more present in everyday applications and services, and the end-users are getting acquainted with it. Cefriel is involved in research studies related to the user acceptance of such technologies, to...
Dec 2, 2020 | News from ACTION
by Roy van Grunsven Within ACTION we study the effect of pesticides in water on dragonflies. Pesticides are often linked to agriculture but are also used outside of agriculture. One of these uses is as flea bands for dogs and cats. A recent paper in Science of the...
Dec 2, 2020 | News from ACTION
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel A dashboard displaying the summary information on citizen science pilots actually running within the ACTION project will be published on the ACTION website soon. The dashboard will display a summary of the general characteristics...
Nov 23, 2020 | News from ACTION
By Gefion Thuermer – King’s College London ACTION coordinator King’s College London is hosting the Data Stories Symposium 2020 on 26th & 27th November. In two half-days of presentations and workshops, participants at this free online event can...
