Confluences organiseert van 3 tot 8 januari 2021 de themaweek 'Kennis cocreëren voor de maatschappij van morgen.' Meer info en inschrijven via de website van Confluences.

Op 14 en 15 januari 2021 organiseert het Citizen Science Center Zurich 'CitSci Helvetia 2021', de eerste Zwitserse citizen-scienceconferentie. Abstracts indienen kan tot 31 juli. Meer info en inschrijven via hun website.

De Citizen Science Association (CSA) organiseert samen met Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS) van 25 tot 29 mei 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona 'CitSci2021', een internationale conferentie rond citizen science. Op de website van CSA verschijnt binnenkort meer info over het programma.

Special Session „Citizen Science”
The possibility of letting people participate in scientific research has gained increasing interest in recent years. This applies in particular to questions and problems that spatial data - contributed by citizens using desktop and/ or mobile applications - will help to solve. However, although (geo-) citizen science in principle offers numerous advantages (including cost and personnel savings, support with monitoring, coverage of larger areas) - the existing potential is not always fully exploited and the existing expectations are not always fully met will.