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SUMMARY:INSPIRE Hackathon
DESCRIPTION:Depsite the COVID-19 pandemic and after approximately 2 months since its initation\, the Dubrovnik INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 ”Leveraging interoperable frameworks\, artificial intelligence and citizen science for Sustainable Development Goals was successfully concluded\, consisting of 12 individual challenges. \nOne of the key objectives of the hackathon was to promote collaboration and sharing of experience in the domain of spatial data/services and citizen-science while showcasing their utilisation and uptake to different application domains and themes. This includes also supporting the Sustainable Development Goals. WeObserve introduced and facilitated the organisation of three citizen-science challenges that attracted 35 participants coming from different fields of expertise and from 22 different countries all over the world. \nOn Thursday 11th June\, the results from the hackathon challenges were presented during the INSPIRE 2020 Online Conference\, showing what the teams have achieved in the weeks of virtual collaboration. This  workshop concluded with an announcement of the top three teams in an awards ceremony. One of the citizen-science challenges entitled as “Establish the connection of Citizen Observatories resources with central catalogue” was the winner of the second place! \nTo find out more about the citizen-science challenges\, please visit here.
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/inspire-hackathon/
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SUMMARY:CODATA Essay competition: Open Data Challenges to Address Glibal and Societal Issues
DESCRIPTION:AN INVITATION TO TAKE PART IN THE CODATA CONNECT – DATA SCIENCE JOURNAL EARLY CAREER ESSAY COMPETITION  \n  \nThe first of its kind\, CODATA Connect Early Career and Alumni Network in collaboration with the CODATA Data Science Journal (DSJ) is organizing an Essay Competition for Early Career Researchers (ECR)\, defined as university undergraduate\, graduate\, post-graduate students or early career researchers within five years of completing their highest qualification. CODATA Connect exists to ensure a structural and sustained collaboration and support for the activities of the alumni of CODATA-RDA Summer Schools\, of the CODATA China and Trieste Training Workshops and other early career researchers and data professionals involved in the CODATA community and those of partner organisations. \nTopic for the Essay: “Open Data Challenges to Address Global and Societal Issues” \n\nParticipants interested in disseminating information on research data in the sciences\, humanities and the arts using essays as the medium are welcome to apply.\nTopics might include but not limited to human health\, climate change\, resilience\, etc.\nEssays which discuss the necessary limits in openness are also in scope and are welcome (e.g. personal health information\, indigenous sovereignty etc.)\nEssays that discuss the challenges in making data as open as possible and how such data can be used to address global and societal issues (Crime\, Disease\, Governance\, etc.)\nEssays might discuss challenges at any point in the data lifecycle and in relation to any of a number of global and societal challenges.\nWe discourage essays that simply present well known and generic arguments in favour of open data.\nEssays are encouraged to use local or specific examples for the benefits of open data and to discuss how challenges can be overcome in both specific circumstances and more globally.\n\nTo find out more on the criteria\, as well as the process to be followed\, visit the official website here.
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/codata-essay-competition-open-data-challenges-to-address-glibal-and-societal-issues/
CATEGORIES:Other events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20200415T150000
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SUMMARY:Want to Join the Fight Against COVID-19? Help Scientists With Their Coronavirus Research From Your Home
DESCRIPTION:Discover and SciStarter are hosting a live\, online Citizen Science Month event looking at three COVID-19 research projects that need your help.\n\nOn Wednesday\, April 15\, at 3 p.m. EDT\, Discover and SciStarter will host a live-streamed event on Zoom and Facebook to introduce you to three scientists leading COVID-19 citizen science projects that need your help. The event is part of Citizen Science Month. \nIn the discussion\, you’ll learn how to identify behaviors that influence risk; crowdsource the COVID-19 pandemic in real-time; play an online game to fold and design proteins for scientific research. \nAnna Funk\, associate editor of Discover magazine\, will moderate the discussion. We’ll provide step-by-step guides so we can get involved in real-time\, online\, together. You can create your SciStarter account (free) and get familiar with the three COVID-19 projects before the event by visiting SciStarter.org/COVID-19. You’ll also find the event live at Discover’s Facebook page\, facebook.com/DiscoverMag. \nHere are the projects that scientists will discuss: \nCOVID-19 Citizen Science – Take part\nScientists at the University of California\, San Francisco\, hope to enroll 1 million people in “real-time epidemiology” research. This program\, called COVID-19 Citizen Science (CCS)\, starts with an initial 15-minute survey about a volunteer’s health and daily habits. The program will follow up with subsequent questions throughout the study\, which will be sent via an app or text message. \nVolunteers can even offer up their GPS location and\, eventually\, highly detailed information like blood pressure\, weight\, blood oxygen levels\, body temperature\, exercise and sleep. That information would come through wearable devices like Fitbits. \nBy tracking a huge number of people over time\, the researchers hope to identify factors that change the risk of infection and what happens afterward. The more people get involved\, the more statistically significant the results will be. \nCOVID Near You – Take part\nHealth officials can’t fight the coronavirus pandemic without knowing where infections are. \nNow\, researchers have created a way to track people with COVID-19 symptoms\, even if they still can’t easily test and diagnose who actually has the disease. \nThe effort is called COVID Near You. Anyone in the U.S. can use the initiative’s website to self-report their location and how they’re feeling. The researchers work with national and local officials to monitor potential hot spots. \nFight COVID-19 with FoldIt – Take part\nYou wash your hands thoroughly and stifle your natural hugging urge\, but what else can you do to battle COVID-19? Join the FoldIt project! \nThere\, you will play a free online game in which the goal is to design an antiviral protein that targets the dangerous virus. \n  \n  \nFor more information\, visit here. \nFind more than 100 online events taking place this month at CitizenScienceMonth.org .
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/want-to-join-the-fight-against-covid-19-help-scientists-with-their-coronavirus-research-from-your-home/
CATEGORIES:Other events
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SUMMARY:Pan-European Hackathon to develop innovative solutions to overcome societal challenges related to coronavirus
DESCRIPTION:The European Commission and EU member states have today launched a call for participation in a pan-European Hackathon to connect innovators\, partners and buyers across Europe to develop innovative solutions to coronavirus-related challenges. \nThe Hackathon\, which will take place on 24\, 25 and 26 April\, is structured around categories of problems that need short-term solutions in relation to coronavirus health and life\, business continuity\, remote working and education\, social & political cohesion\, digital finance and an open category for other challenges. Feel empowered to get creative! \nEuropean Commissioner for Innovation\, Research\, Culture\, Education and Youth\, Mariya Gabriel said: \nThis pan-European hackathon is an example of how Europe can come together in times of crisis.  It’s inspiring to witness this show of solidarity by our community of innovators. Our most talented minds will do their best to find solutions to coronavirus and support our citizens. This is European innovation in action. \nAll 27 EU Member States are taking part as well as Norway\, Israel\, Switzerland\, Turkey\, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. The winning solutions will be invited to join a European Innovation Council Platform that will facilitate connections with end users (e.g. hospitals) and provide access to investors\, foundations and other funding opportunities from across the European Commission. \nCan you hack it? Register now on the EUvsVirus Hackathon website to be part of the solution! \nMore information are available here.
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/pan-european-hackathon-to-develop-innovative-solutions-to-overcome-societal-challenges-related-to-coronavirus/
LOCATION:Directorate-General for Research and Innovation\, European Commission\, Brussels\, 1049\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:COVID Webinar #2: All Hands on Deck! Citizen Science and Serious Games Tackle Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:The Citizen Science Association Law and Policy Working Group invite you to take part to ‘COVID Webinar #2: All Hands on Deck! Citizen Science and Serious Games Tackle Covid-19’ \n\nFRIDAY\, APRIL 24\, 2020 \nTIME: 8-9:15 AM PT / 11 AM – 12:15 PM ET / 4-5:15 PM CET \nREGISTER HERE:  https://bit.ly/CSAcovidGames \nSpeakers: \n\nEteRNA\n\nRhiju Das\, Associate Professor\, Stanford University \n\nProtein-folding citizen scientists tackle Covid-19 with Foldit\n\nFiras Khatib\, Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth \n\n Covid Near You\n\nKara Seawalk\, Boston Children’s Hospital and Covid Near You \n\nCOVID.SI: Citizen science project to fight against NCOV-SARS-2 by distributed computing  \n\nČrtomir Podlipnik \n\nSafecast and Responding to Covid-19 through crowdsourced data\n\nAngela Eaton\, Safecast Americas Director \n  \nFollow the conversation on Twitter: @CitSciAssoc and using hashtags #CitSciPolicy and #CitSci \n  \nFind below the Presenters’ Bios:\nRhiju Das\, Ph.D.\, is a computational biochemist at Stanford University School of Medicine. His lab seeks a predictive understanding of how RNA molecules code for complex biological machines. The lab’s computer algorithms have consistently achieved leading predictions in world-wide structure prediction trials. Complementary to these computer methods\, Dr. Das is developing high-throughput ‘multidimensional chemical mapping’ experiments to uncover three-dimensional structures and conformational changes of non-coding RNAs in their biological milieu\, leading to discoveries relevant to human development\, neurological disorders\, and viral infection. Towards novel molecules of biomedical interest\, Dr. Das leads the Eterna massive open laboratory. Eterna couples a 250\,000-player videogame to the lab’s massively parallel experimental tools and deep learning\, the first such platform in citizen science. Dr. Das’s research has been recognized with the Burroughs-Wellcome Career Award at the Interface of Science\, a W.M. Keck Medical Research Program award\, the OpenEye/American Chemical Society Outstanding Junior Faculty Award\, and an endowed faculty award. Dr. Das mentors students from Stanford’s biochemistry\, biophysics\, biomedical informatics\, chemistry\, and learning sciences Ph.D. programs. EteRNA: https://eternagame.org/web/news/9804036/ \nFiras Khatib\, Ph.D.\, is an Assistant Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He received his bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2001\, and his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from UC Santa Cruz in 2008. Prior to joining UMass Dartmouth\, he was a Senior Fellow in the Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute at the University of Washington. Firas has been the lead scientist of Foldit\, a video game that has allowed hundreds of thousands of players to contribute to biochemical scientific research. The long-term goal of this project is to utilize the combined power of humans and computers in order to build accurate models of disease-related proteins. \nKara Seawalk is an epidemiologist for Health Map at Boston Children’s Hospital. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/crowdsourcing-covid-19 \nDr Črtomir Podlipnik is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology\, University of Ljubljana\, Slovenia. He has a great scientific interest in the research of relevant biomolecular systems\, and with his valuable\, comprehensive knowledge in this field\, he actively participates in many projects\, including researches of Ebola and COVID-19. Together with colleagues and with support of Central Technical Library at the University of Ljubljana he organized Citizen science project – COVID.SI. \nAngela Eaton leads Safecast’s air quality and radiation monitoring efforts and supports participatory environmental monitoring throughout the Americas. Currently\, she’s working on COVID-19 response through the creation of a crowdsourced testing map and a virus progression diary. Angela also works with CSA member\, Vivienne Byrd\, at LAPL to add to its efforts in building citizen science communities at branches. She served as a Civil Society Working Group reviewer during the UN Habitat III process\, in which the current sustainable development goals were established\, and has consulted in sustainable systems design in urban water infrastructure\, conservation and greenhouse gas reductions for non-profits\, utilities\, and cities. Despite Shelter in Place\, Angela seeks new ways to encourage environmental monitoring as a means to satisfy the curious and empower communities. \nLea Shanley\, Ph.D.\, is a Senior Fellow in the Nelson Institute at the University of Wisconsin Madison and Advisor to SciStarter. Her research interests focus on the intersection of open science\, technology\, policy and law. Previously\, Lea served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow at NASA\, co-founder of the Federal Citizen Science community of practice and citizenscinece.gov\, and founding director of the Commons Lab at the Wilson Center in Washington\, DC.  She was a CSA Board Member\, and now serves on the CSA Law and Policy Working Group Steering Committee. T: @Lea_Shanley \nReanna Putnam is the Community Engagement Specialist for the Citizen Science Association. She coordinates CSA’s communications to enhance member engagement\, supports Working Groups\, and facilitates CSA’s ongoing webinar series.  Reanna has a masters in Sociology from Colorado State University and over five years of experience working for non-profits.
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/covid-webinar-2-all-hands-on-deck-citizen-science-and-serious-games-tackle-covid-19/
CATEGORIES:Other events
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SUMMARY:COs4Cloud Webinar: Let's talk about Citizen Observatories
DESCRIPTION:Cos4Cloud (Co-designing Citizen Observatories Services for the European Open Science Cloud)\, a European project on technological innovation in citizen science\, organizes a webinar to discuss the concept of citizen observatory as well as present opportunities and challenges of citizen observatories in the age of global change and crisis such as COVID-19. \nLearn more and register here!
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/cos4cloud-webinar-lets-talk-about-citizen-observatories/
CATEGORIES:COs events
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