Nov 20, 2020 | News from ACTION
ACTIONs primary investigator, Professor Elena Simperl, co-chaired this year’s AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP2020). For five days at the end of October, researchers and practitioners from all over the world and a variety of fields...
Nov 15, 2020 | News from ACTION
The programme of our FREE webinar “Let’s talk about money! #CitizenScience and financial sustainability” is now available: https://bit.ly/citizenscience-money We are very much looking forward to discussing with our speakers about how customer social...
Nov 4, 2020 | News from ACTION
On November the 19th ACTION team will host an online event with experts exploring different path towards financial sustainability. Are you a citizen science project looking for the right mix between public and private funding? Do you want to learn more on how to get...
Nov 2, 2020 | News from ACTION
The 2nd ACTION Open Call is now closed, we are looking forward to meeting the new pilots in spring 2021! On 1 November our second open call was closed. We received 77 proposals from over 20 countries. Such a good feedback from the CS community is a sign of how active...
Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
by Lucía García & Jaime Zamorano – Universidad Complutense de Madrid The brightness of the night sky in a big city varies along the night depending on when the street lamps of its streets are switched on, the traffic after sunset, something that includes...
Oct 30, 2020 | News from ACTION, News from our pilots
Some days ago, four ACTION pilots funded by the 1st open call successfully passed the internal final review and graduated. In the last six months the ACTION team accompanied them in an accelerator programme providing, besides fundings, regular exchanges, training and...
Oct 23, 2020 | News from our pilots
It’s the official kick-off for Tatort Streetlight / AuBe at the end of this week, and during the event the project will be inaugurated as an official project of the UN-Decade of Biodiversity. More info here:...
Oct 13, 2020 | News from our pilots
This year ACTION’s FVB-IGB team worked with students at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute to co-develop with citizen science projects a set of Diversity and Inclusion Guidelines for Citizen Science. These guidelines have now been used in the design of a new online...
Oct 8, 2020 | News from our pilots
Calling all insect experts, insect enthusiasts and light pollution patrollers! ACTION project Tatort Streetlight is seeking citizen scientists to join in their exciting project looking at the effect of streetlight design on flying insect populations. Whether you are...
Oct 2, 2020 | News from our pilots
The Festival for Art, Technology and Society “Ars Electronica” is an internationally platform for digital art and media culture that enjoys a worldwide reputation. This year’s edition took place from September the 9th to the 13th, and for the first time, it happened...
