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:...
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 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...
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...
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...
