Finally, the time has come! More than three years after our first networking day, we are organizing a new networking and learning event at the BMCC Bruges on November 15. Just like the previous time, we offer you an inspiring keynote speaker, a series of fascinating talks and workshops on different aspects of citizen science and a pleasant networking lunch.
Moreover, during this networking day, we will launch our latest guide on citizen science in education. Therefore, this networking event runs in parallel to the Digiwijs event for teachers. We hope to create an exciting cross-pollination between citizen science and education, both during the session 'citizen science in the classroom', and during the networking lunch.
There will also be an extra focus on the topic of citizen science data, with lectures and workshops on data visualisation, data management, data-driven policy and privacy. During lunch, you can ask all your data questions at the Scivil stand, where data stewards of the Flemish Open Science Board (FOSB) will be happy to help you.
There will be both sessions in Dutch and in English.
Meanwhile, our program is finalized and registrations are open!
Participation is free of charge.
During the keynote presentation, Margaret Gold will share her insights from the European Mutual Learning Exercise on Citizen Science.
Margaret Gold is coordinator of the Citizen Science Lab at the University of Leiden, a knowledge hub and project incubator for public participation in scientific research. She leads the Citizen Science programme within the Dutch Programme for Open Science (NPOS), leading to the creation of the Citizen Science Nederland Network.
Margaret’s previous experiences include work at the European Citizen Science Association, working on the projects WeObserve, Landsense and EU-Citizen-Science as well as the Natural History Museum in London as Science Community Manager, leading online citizen science projects.
Presentations and short workshops or demo sessions
How to ensure that citizen science research data is widely available to citizen scientists and stakeholders? In this session you will be introduced to and discover three different strategies and tools to display data attractively and clearly.
Between 14:00 and 14:50, you can take part in one of the following sessions.
Generating more impact with data management (EN)
Presentations and Q&A
How do you make sure the data from your citizen science project leads to societal or scientific impact? In this session, we’ll show examples of how citizen science data contributes to science and policy in several projects.
The examples are linked to principles from the citizen science data charter, offering you practical advice on how to tackle data management within a citizen science project. How can you generate and share open data? How can others find and use your data? Which license fits my data?
Subjects and speakers:
Digitaal Vlaanderen: how do you make use of the Digital Flanders initiatives to increase your data impact? - Veerle Beyaert (Digitaal Vlaanderen)
VLOCA: integrating sensor and citizen generated data for local policybuilding - Maarten Van Loo (VITO)
RIPARIAS and VespaWatch: combining different data sources to manage invasive species. - Lien Reyserhove (INBO)
Datagedreven bestuur en citizen science (in Dutch)
Citizen scientists are, in most cases, volunteers. They help advance science from various motivations: passion, interest, the will to contribute or improve the world... How can we appreciate citizen scientists for the work they do?
Speakers:
Anthonie Hellemond, president Paleontologica Belgica, will talk about the Louis De Pauw award for citizen scientists in paleontology.
Maarten Larmuseau, geneticist at KU Leuven and Histories vzw, will talk about publishing with citizen scientists.
Embedding citizen science in research and higher education institutions (EN)
Presentations and discussion
How can your organization embed citizen science in it's policies? Two examples will demonstrate how they achieved institutional changes to promote citizen science and public engagement within their institutions.
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) recently launched its own citizen science contact point and first internal citizen science project call. How did they approach this? And what exactly does such a citizen science contact point do? Floor and Karel share their experiences with you.
The European INOS project aims to integrate citizen and open science in higher education institutions and libraries. To this end, they created, among other things, roadmaps for capacity building and recommendations on how to integrate citizen science into curricula.
Speakers:
Floor Keersmaekers (VUB) on the citizen science contact point at the VUB
Rosie Allison (LIBER Europe) on lessons learned during the INOS-project: Integrating Open and Citizen Science into Higher Education
Citizen science helpdesk
Q&A, Networking
Which questions do you still have about citizen science? We’ll bring the expertise of our guest speakers together with our own to answer your questions. Would you like to learn more about GDPR? About communication strategies? About education? Ask one of the guest speakers or the Scivil team.
