The #ECSA26 poster session started quietly, then the #citizenscience crowd arrived!
Great to catch up with colleagues and hear about inspiring #citsci projects worldwide. Greetings from chilly Oulu!
The #ECSA26 poster session started quietly, then the #citizenscience crowd arrived!
Great to catch up with colleagues and hear about inspiring #citsci projects worldwide. Greetings from chilly Oulu!
The #PartArt4ow Sailing Lab will cross the Mediterranean in summer 2026, connecting artists, scientists & coastal communities to support ocean sustainability, ending in Badalona near Barcelona.
Learn more: partart4ow.eu/sailing-lab
#citizenscience #citsci #art #oceanscience
Great to be in Oulu for the @ecsa.ngo conference!
Looking forward to sharing IMPETUS sessions, reconnecting with colleagues, and meeting new collaborators.
Let us know if you are here too!
#ECSA26 #citsci #CitizenScience
Boost your Horizon Europe funding skills! π
Join @gefiont.bsky.social on 16 Apr 2026 for our #EUSEA training -
Horizon Europe 101: All the basics to apply for European research and innovation funding
eusea.info/eusea-traini...
#EUFunding #Research
ΒΏTrabajas en un Ayuntamiento, DiputaciΓ³n, Partido PolΓtico o gabinete de comunicaciΓ³n y quieres saber quΓ© marcos narrativos climΓ‘ticos pueden reforzar tu programa de incidencia?
β«οΈDescarga el material aquΓ: blablalab.eu/wp-content/u...
@impetus4cs.bsky.social @hexagonallab.bsky.social
#citizenscience resource
New #ECS guidance highlights how to strengthen openness and diversity in #CitizenScience, drawing on seven pilots and ten library events across Europe (2023β2025).
Read more: zenodo.org/records/1832...
#PublicEngagement #OpenScience #Inclusion #Diversity
#CitizenScience Reading Club
AI can strengthen citizen science through better data and engagement, but responsible design is vital to protect transparency, inclusivity, and volunteer participation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#citsci #ResponsibleAI #Participation #OpenScience #AI
#CitizenScience resource
The Western Balkans Info Hub is hosting a webinar that offers a valuable opportunity to engage with cutting-edge Horizon Europe research on democratic governance.
β° 9:30β12:30
π
26 February
π westernbalkans-infohub.eu/events/democ...
#citizenscience profile
MΖαΊΙFΘ¦B is building an Urban Lab where migrants and local residents analyse socio-economic data together, turning lived experience into knowledge, dialogue and community action.
impetus4cs.eu/mixufab/
#socialinclusion #communityscience
#citizenscience Spotlight
Citizen scientists are creating 3D βdigital twinsβ of Baltic Sea shipwrecks before warming waters destroy them. Led by the Maritime Archaeological Society of Finland, the project preserves shared underwater heritage for all.
2001convention-uch.ngo/projects/bal...
#citizenscience reading club
Citizen sensing is reshaping risk governance. This book shows how community-led monitoring can fill data gaps, challenge distrust, and support more transparent and inclusive responses to environmental risks.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#CitizenSensing
The February edition of the #CitizenScience Lighthouse newsletter from @eucitsciproject is out, bringing new updates and opportunities from across the #CitSci community π°β¨
us20.campaign-archive.com?u=43994d556f...
As #IMPETUS4CS wraps up its third accelerator. We are celebrating our final cohort, starting with SOS Heater in Portugal, tackling #EnergyPoverty with low-energy heating.
impetus4cs.eu/sos-heater/
#CitizenScience #SustainableHeating
#Citizenscience Resource
Empowering women in science: How the EU is driving change for gender equality in #research and #innovation.
Learn more about how the European Commission promotes gender equality work here:
rea.ec.europa.eu/news/empower...
#Equality #womeninstem
#Citizenscience Spotlight
Taxon Foundation and Save Komarnica are protecting Montenegroβs Komarnica River from a planned dam through citizen science surveys of endemic species. EU Prize 2025 honourable mention.
taxonfoundation.com/project/koma...
#riverscience #citsci #biodiversity
#CitizenScience Reading Club
This paper shows how #citsci data can strengthen biodiversity monitoring at scale, while also highlighting the inherent biases in these records and the methods needed to use them responsibly.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Conservation #Data
#citizenscience resource
Citizen science lets anyone take part in research, from wildlife tracking to climate studies. This Revise Centre resource links citizen science and STEM learning:
informalscience.org/what-is-info...
πΆ #CitizenScience Spotlight:
Care PartIES involved parents as co-researchers in neonatal care, shifting focus to long-term child development and parental health in NICUs.
www.ifis.uzh.ch/en/Lehre-For...
#HealthResearch #ParticipatoryResearch #NeonatalCare #CommunityLed
#CitizenScience Reading Club
This paper shows how co-designed citizen science can map Europeβs sourdough diversity, linking fermentation practices, culture, and health while generating rich microbiome data at scale.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#citsci #FoodSystems #Microbiome
ΒΏTrabajas en educaciΓ³n y buscas nuevas formas de abordar el #cambioclimatico?
π’Compartimos #ClimaHackers: misiΓ³n narrativa para jΓ³venes que analizan relatos, detectan desinformaciΓ³n y crean contranarrativas: acortar.link/kCOmJe
@impetus4cs.bsky.social @hexagonallab.bsky.social #ObservatorioBBL
π #Citizenscience resource - Using #AI for #EUfunding applications
ποΈ 5 Feb 2026 | 09:30β12:30 CET
π§ Workshop with Eric Jensen on using tools like ChatGPT & Copilot to create persuasive, funder-aligned EU proposals (esp. Horizon Europe).
π eusea.info/eusea-traini...
A bittersweet moment for IMPETUS as our final Accelerator enters its last phase.
Over 7 months, we supported 48 #citizenscience projects!
Early impact insights now live: impetus4cs.eu/impetuss-imp...
#circularcommunities #fair #justsociety #IMPETUS4CS
#CitizenScience Spotlight π
βWatch out! Donβt Step on Me!β engages communities in the Basque Country to study microscopic marine life and tackle microplastics through inclusive STEAM citizen science.
calls.ars.electronica.art/2025/prix/wi...
#ocean #inclusion #pollution
Our new paper on #urban #sustainability argues that while cities are central to achieving #SustainableDevelopment, they struggle with incomplete or non-disaggregated data.
#CitizenScience could support 70% of urban indicators, yet itβs used in only 4% of cases: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#citizenscience resource
Build citizen science with real flexibilityπ§°
PYBOSSA is a free, open-source framework for crowdsourcing tasks like image classification, transcription & geocoding
pybossa.com
#Crowdsourcing #OpenScience #CitizenScienceTools
#CitizenScience Reading Club
Explore how libraries are shaping citizen science. Using co-citation analysis, the paper maps key authors, journals, and themes, revealing a growing but still fragmented field
Read more: ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cj...
#citsci #Libraries #OpenScience #Bibliometrics
π #CitizenScience Spotlight: Dingle Peninsula Living Lab, Ireland β an EU Prize for Citizen Science 2025 Honorary Mention for community-led climate action and rural sustainability.
calls.ars.electronica.art/2025/prix/wi...
#ClimateAction #Sustainability #CommunityLed #OpenScience
#IMPETUSInterviews.... The sky is not the limit with #citizenscience
In this conversation, we speak with Enrique Moreno Torres SERVET, who enables students and space-science enthusiasts to send experiments to near-space using weather balloons.
impetus4cs.eu/impetus-inte...
#spacescience
#CitizenScience Resource
Join the INSPIRING ERA online event to explore effective public engagement and citizen science through successful initiatives from across Europe.
27 January
10:00β12:00 CET,
www.inspiring-era.eu/event/engagi...
#publicengagement #citsci #EUresearch
#citizenscience reading club
This paper argues that citizen science must shift from βsupplementaryβ to βessential,β helping to replace lost surveys and strengthen official statistics through flexible, participatory data systems.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SDGs #datagovernance