WeObserve CoPs Forum #6
2021-03-15 - 2021-03-16
The WeObserve Communities of Practice (CoPs) Forum #6 will be held ONLINE on 15-16 March 2021 and will consist of plenary sessions, two parallel sessions and a dedicated workshop in order to help us achieve the following objectives:

Fertilisation of knowledge, ideas & insights on Citizen Science and Citizen Observatories across the four WeObserve Communities of Practice
Advancing our storytelling competencies
Capturing the ‘WeObserve way’ of consolidating knowledge on citizen science via Communities of Practice
Collecting the findings of the Interop-CoP and compile them in the 2nd Engineering Report.

The Forum is available to all the members of the WeObserve Communities of Practice! If you want to join the WeObserve CoPs and be part of their ongoing activities, learn more here!

MOOC: A Roadmap to Citizen Science Education
2021-03-22 - 2021-04-29
BRITEC MOOC “A roadmap to citizen science Education” will provide materials and stories of implementation from innovative citizen science education projects. Citizen Science Education is based on the assumption that teachers and researchers can find a common ground of discussion and develop practices that are advantageous both, for the education sector, and the science sector. Therefore, this course proposes a process of collaboration between teachers and researchers. It provides insights from the perspective of researchers that have supported teachers developing STEM learning scenarios that include scientific activities based on the needs of active research projects.
Find out more: https://www.buergerschaffenwissen.de/citizen-science/veranstaltungen/forum-citizen-science-2021

WeObserve Online Course
2021-03-22 - 2022-03-22
WeObserve is delighted to announce that the highly-rated online course Citizen Science Projects: How to Make a Difference will be available for a full year on FutureLearn starting from March 2021.
This online course, which ran in Autumn 2019 and 2020, has already introduced over a thousand learners from around the world to citizen science. It has been praised by previous learners of the course and has been awarded a 4.7-star rating on the FutureLearn website. One learner praised the course, saying:
This is the perfect course for people who want to create citizen science projects, it is full of tools and great links to know more.
Now you can join hundreds of learners in discovering the many different types of projects and how to get involved. You will discover how to lead a citizen science project, including the best practices for community buildings, how to identify the most pressing questions for your community, and tupos on data collection and interpretation. Furthermore, you will find out how to use your findings for educational purposes so as to create a positive change in the environment and your local area.
Having the course open for the full year will allow you to join ongoing discussions and take the course at a time which is suitable for you.
Sign-up here!

ECSA & EU-Citizen.Science webinar: Lessons and insights from WeObserve
2021-03-30 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Moscow) | Virtual
The next ECSA and EU-Citizen.Science webinar, being held on 30 March 2021 (14:00-15:30), focuses on our WeObserve project.
WeObserve tackles three key challenges that citizen observatories face: (1) awareness, (2) acceptability and (3) sustainability. Its overall mission is to create a sustainable ecosystem of citizen observatories that can systematically address these identified challenges and help move citizen science into the mainstream.
As the project draws to a conclusion, our team members will highlight what the project has learnt through its activities. Speakers include:

Gerid Hager (IIASA) – WeObserve in a nutshell
Uta Wehn (IHE Delft), Joan Maso (CREAF), Dilek Fraisl (IIASA) – WeObserve communities of practice: how to ‘do’ CoPs and some reflections
Mel Woods (University of Dundee) – Accelerating the uptake of citizen observatories through MOOCs and open data challenges
Joan Maso (CREAF), Valantis Tsiakos (ICCS) – Data interoperability and standardisation: using interoperability experiments and hackathons to address data-related challenges in citizen observatories
Q&A session, Margaret Gold (Citizen Science Lab)

Register here for free. Download here the full agenda.

CitSciVirtual: Local, Global, Connected
2021-05-01 - 2021-05-31
Events throughout the month of May, 2021 will engage practitioners and researchers in the field of citizen science (educators, community leaders, scientists, students, technologists, data managers and more), in sharing the ideas and innovations that make work in this field thrive. Across this broad field, and taking into consideration that we do science better, together – and through CitSciVirtual all interested parties can connect to learn from and inspire each other. Registration will open on February! Please visit here for more.

Information Management CS Track Workshop
2021-05-05 12:00 - 13:30
This workshop is about exploring tools that can be used to collect, analyse and share information about citizen science projects. It is based on current work in the European CS Track project, which seeks to increase the knowledge on CS using web-based analytics (computational analyses based on projects’ manifestations on the web and social media) and questionnaires, combined in a multi-perspective analysis. Three facets of our work so far will be addressed: (1) development of a database of CS projects and preliminary data analysis; and the approach and methods/tools to use for (2) analytics and (3) communication of results.
More information about the event here.

Workshop-Common Challenges in Citizen Science
2021-05-10 10:00 - 12:00
Scivil (Scivil.be) is bringing together citizen science actors to exchange experiences, succes stories and challenges in an online workshop. The workshop is aimed at citizen science project initiators and coordinators and will be guided by Stickydot (stickydot.eu/). The workshop will take place in English on Zoom on May 10th from 10:00 to 12:00.
More info: https://www.scivil.be/event/online-workshop-common-challenges-citizen-science

REINFORCE Project Webinar
2021-05-11 15:00
The technology developed to study fundamental physics can be applied to the development of frameworks that may have a significant impact on society. The Atmospheric Muons have unique potential to probe structures and provide insight in a series of issues, ranging from volcano live monitoring to applications in archaeology or use for non- invasive and non-destructive control processes in the industry.
Muography is an innovative technique using secondary cosmic rays produced in the atmosphere, the most energetic of which have the property to cross ordinary matter over relevant distances (from meters to kilometers). The detection of those particles after any type of target allows therefore the characterization of the distribution and the density of the matter inside the target, as it is done for instance in medical imaging with X-rays. There is a strong societal impact of this technique, which is mostly passive and therefore adapted to any field of investigation: controls, risks assessment, hazards management.
In the framework of REINFORCE, citizens will be provided with open data detected with distributed networks of cosmic ray detectors and will contribute in performing inquiries at the interplay between cosmic ray research and its applications.
The webinar aims to give an overview of the Cosmic Muons Images Large Scale Citizen Science demonstrator and how it will be implemented in order to engage citizens in the scientific research, showcasing the tasks that citizens will be asked to perform and how their input will be fundamental to study geological phenomena and archaeology research by using Cosmic Rays.
More info: https://reinforceeu.eu/events/webinars/how-use-cosmic-rays-study-geosciences-and-archaeology

Hard-to-reach groups in Citizen Science & Science Communication
2021-05-18 14:00 - 16:00
With a claim to democraticize science and actively involve the general population, science communication and citizen science are increasingly turning their attention to so-called “hard-to-reach groups”. But who or what are hard-to-reach groups? What strategies are proving helpful and effective? How can diversity and inclusion be ensured? The OeAD Center for Citizen Science would like to reflect on these questions with experts from different fields, disciplines and institutions during a keynote speech and a panel discussion to show through practical examples how “hard-to-reach groups” can be reached in the best possible way. The online event will be in German.
More info: https://zentrumfuercitizenscience.at/de/veranstaltungen/detail/2021/05/18/wissenschaft-fuer-alle-hard-to-reach-groups-in-citizen-science-und-wissenschaftskommunikation/

Virtual Citizen Science Summer School
2021-06-14 - 2021-06-25
Virtual Citizen Science Summer School: Transforming research through public participation.
A summer school for early career reseachers (ECR) and citizen science practitioners is hosted by the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.
In order to ensure planning security for organizers and participants, the Citizen Science Summer School will take place online. The school will last 2 weeks: 14 – 25 June 2021. Daily learning and training activities will make up 4 – 5 hrs, with ample time for discussion, independent and group work. The school aims to facilitate participants to identify and develop the skills needed to engage in participatory research.
For a first overview, please have a look at the preliminary program and the leaflet.

Citizen Science for Policy across Europe
2021-06-22 11:00 - 12:30
EU-Citizen.Science is inviting representatives from ministries across Europe and at the regional and local levels to engage in a discussion about citizen science and its benefits for policy making.
The EU-Citizen.Science project – with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the European Commission – is pleased to invite you to the event “Citizen Science for Policy across Europe” to be held online on June 22nd 2021 at 11:00-12:30 PM CEST, as a satellite event of the European Research and Innovation Days 2021.
Specifically, the event will:

Explore the current state of citizen science in Europe to enhance synergies across borders.
Have open discussions by presenting good practices and success stories about citizen science operating at different levels, highlighting the barriers that affect the development of citizen science and providing solutions to overcome them to produce a powerful policy decision-making tool.
Foster collaborations among different countries to promote citizen science, establishing common paths.

The agenda can be found here.
Two options are available to attend the event and have an opportunity to interact with speakers:

Click here to register for the event on Zoom;
or join us directly on the ECSA YouTube channel on the day itself.

Workshop - Lessons from the SensJus project
2021-07-08 15:00 - 17:00
The SensJus project would like to invite you all to a hybrid workshop to be held at LocHal, the beautiful Tilburg Public Library, NL, titled ‘The right to contribute to environmental information, a year later: lessons from the SensJus project’ which will take place on July 8, 15:00-17:00 CEST.
The programme and more details about the event can be found here!
The event is organized by SensJus and supported by the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research.

GEO Week 2022
2022-02-06 - 2022-02-08
The next iteration Geo Week has been announced: the coming together of the International Lidar Mapping Forum (ILMF), SPAR 3D Expo & Conference and AEC Next as an integrated event covering the next generation of digital technology. The combined conference program and tradeshow floor will feature commercial applications of 3D technologies, innovations and case studies in the built environment, advanced airborne and terrestrial remote sensing solutions, smart products for a full project team and much more! Visit here for more.

CitSci2022 - Save the Date
2022-05-24 08:00 - 2022-05-28 17:00
The CitSci2021 will be held in conjunction with Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS) on May 24-28, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit here.
SAVE THE DATES for CitSci2021:
May 24-28, 2021
Phoenix, Arizona
