Aug 11, 2021 | News from ACTION, News from our pilots
By Kat Austen – IGB This week Open Soil Atlas presented their project at the Emergent Berlin Festival. The festival, ongoing through 2021, focusses on the topic of transformation in multiple senses. For the month of August’s focus on ecological change, ACTION...
Aug 9, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Kat Austen – IGB The consequences of climate change are spreading and becoming more tangible for many. In the last months, wildfires have ravaged the Mediterranean, heatwaves have spread across the Pacific Northwest and Siberia, while floods have devastated...
Jul 24, 2021 | News from ACTION
On 24 June, ACTION held its third masterclass to leverage citizen science for policy, this time in the UK. In this masterclass, participants pitched citizen science questions, and it showed how diverse the stakeholders involved in citizen science are and how it...
Jul 23, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel Volunteers participate in citizen science initiatives for several reasons: personal enjoyment, desire for personal improvement or achievement, establishment of personal relationships, care for the environment, etc. Studying...
Jul 16, 2021 | News from ACTION
A new, enriched version of the ACTION toolkit is now available! If you are looking for tools, guidelines, activities and case studies for your Citizen Science project this is the place to go: https://actionproject.eu/toolkit/ The ACTION toolkit provides a selection of...
May 30, 2021 | News from ACTION
By Cléa Montanari (DRIFT) & Sonja Grossberndt (NILU) Citizen science represents an opportunity for Norwegian policy-workers to engage citizens in policy making. But this practice is still rarely employed in Norway to benefit policies as the citizen science field...