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...
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...
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 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...
