- Scivil

On 23 May 2024 from 11 am to 1 pm (CEST), the Flemish knowledge centre for citizen science, Scivil, is organising an online co-design workshop as a first step in setting up a global repository of citizen science initiatives for hydrology and water management within the Unesco Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme. We cordially invite you to participate. 

A collaboration between SciStarter, a global citizen science platform, and the European Citizen Science Academy, developed a free course to integrate citizen science into public libraries. Libraries around the world are introducing citizen science to engage their audiences in these meaningful scientific activities that contribute to research. 

This joint online event organized by the European Citizen Science (ECS) project talks about the insights, challenges and needs of the citizen science community on data (infrastructure, services and practices) and relates it to the EU-Citizen.Science platform on April 24 and 25, 2024.

Are you struggling with data analysis or visualization in your CS projects? Are you uncertain about handling qualitative data or available tools and infrastructure? Are you struggling with data ownership, policy or ethics? If this sounds familiar to you, don't miss this event! 

You can view the full program here and register here.

COMPAIR presents four advanced tools to better understand citizen science data and support decision-making. These include a policy monitoring dashboard, a dynamic exposure visualisation dashboard, an AR app for air pollution and a CO2 calculator. This is the third webinar in a series of three, organised by COMPAIR to help cities unlock science.

Affordable sensors are a valuable addition to official air quality monitoring, but their reliability is disputed.The webinar explains how this issue has been addressed in COMPAIR. This is the second webinar in a series of three, organised by COMPAIR to help cities unlock science.

This webinar will highlight local efforts to address urban challenges through five Citizen Science Laboratories established in Athens, Berlin, Flanders, Plovdiv and Sofia. The COMPAIR case studies illustrate how citizen science, through a combination of inclusive stakeholder engagement and policy dialogue, can be a powerful driver of change. This is the first webinar in a series of three, organised by COMPAIR to help cities unlock science.

In this upcoming ECS policy event, we will explore the central role of citizen science in reforming research assessment and redefining scientific excellence. Join our online panel of experts and decision-makers from science and policy as we discuss the CoARA Agreement - a unique opportunity to advance the integration of citizen science into mainstream academic funding and reputation systems. Together we will explore ways in which policymakers can champion this integration and reflect on its wider implications for both the field of citizen science and academia as a whole.

LIBER and the ECSA Academy will run a Citizen Science Masterclass for Library Executives in 2024. The two-day programme will be held in-person in Paris from 7-8 May and invites 20 library leaders who wish to kickstart Citizen Science at their institutions.

In 2022, the French Institute for Civil Society Organisations launched, in partnership with the Maecenata Foundation, the Institute for Social Research, and the Mouvement associatif, a working group on Civil Society Organisations in Europe. This working group brought together 40 researchers and practitioners with mixed expertise from 16 European countries to shed light on CSOs in Europe, on their contribution to society and democracy, and on their needs.

This working group was tasked with detecting European CSOs knowledge needs, drawing a state of the art, and issuing recommendations for a European research agenda on CSOs. They will present the results of this working group during a webinar on the 14th of April. the webinar is open to researchers, to CSOs practitioners and to their stakeholders. 

More information can be found here.

An international event for funders of scientific research exploring how current and future research agendas (can) support citizen science.

The event will be opened by Michael Arentoft (European Commission, Department of Research and Innovation). The workshop will provide experiences of funders within different branches of the research landscape. Participants can share experiences and connect with other funders.