RIECS-Concept

📢 Exploring Open Science Hardware in Europe’s Citizen Science Infrastructure❗

✳️ The HEROES Workshop brought together 40 experts to examine how Open Science Hardware (OScH) can strengthen open and participatory research across Europe.

🔗 More info: concept.riecs.eu/2026/02/25/e...

📢 Shaping the Future of Citizen Science: Join the @riecs-concept.bsky.social Online Workshops organised by @mau.se❗

📝 Register by 20 Feb 2026:
🔗 forms.office.com/e/zEZav6sPMt

🔗 More information: concept.riecs.eu/2026/02/18/s...

✨ Your experience matters – be part of the design process ✨

📢 Join @riecs-concept.bsky.social High-Level Policy Event on the Future of Citizen Science organised by the European Citizen Science (ECS) project❗

📩 Questions? Contact nadia.bates@mfn.berlin

🔗 More information: concept.riecs.eu/2026/02/16/r...

📢 Building a European Backbone for Citizen Science: Why Fragmentation Is Holding Us Back❗

✳️Citizen science across Europe is growing rapidly, engaging thousands of citizens, generating valuable data, contributing to research, policy, and societal challenges.

🔗More: concept.riecs.eu/2026/02/13/b...

📢 The Second @riecs-concept.bsky.social Newsletter Is Here❗

🔗 Read the full text: concept.riecs.eu/2026/02/11/r...

📢 RSA Annual Conference 2026 – Call for contributions! Deadline 12th Feb 2026

🔗 Find out more and submit your paper via the link below:
www.regionalstudies.org/news/2026-rs...

📢 New publication in Nature Communications Sustainability: “Why Citizen Science is Now Essential for Official Statistics”❗

🔗 More: concept.riecs.eu/2026/01/14/n...

🔗 The full article can be read here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📢 @citizensciencezh.bsky.social recently hosted “Make a Wish: what would you need for your Citizen Science project?”❗

🧩 The goal: co-designing the future Research Infrastructure for Excellent Citizen Science (@riecs-concept.bsky.social).

🔗More information: concept.riecs.eu/2025/12/17/t...

📢 Citizen Science took centre stage at UNEA-7❗

✳️ The Green Room event “People and Policy, Together: Building Global Citizen Science for a Resilient Planet”.

🔗 More: concept.riecs.eu/2025/12/16/p...

✨ Season’s Greetings and warm wishes for the holiday season from a @riecs-concept.bsky.social 🎄

❇️ Thank you for your commitment, ideas, and inspiring cooperation. Looking forward to another inspiring time together.❄️

🔗 More information: concept.riecs.eu/2025/12/12/s...

📢 Citizen Engagement in Climate Policymaking❗

✳️ On 3 December, VILNIUS TECH and @riecs-concept.bsky.social researcher Monika Mačiulienė joined a national workshop on involving citizens and civil society in climate and environmental policymaking.

🔗 More: concept.riecs.eu/2025/12/10/c...

📢 Co-Creating the Future of Citizen Science at the CS Barcelona Congress❗

✨A great step forward in co-creating an inclusive, open, and sustainable future for citizen science! ✨

🔗 More information:
concept.riecs.eu/2025/12/03/c...

📢 Citizen Scientists Shape the Future of Research❗

✳️ On 3 October, twelve dedicated citizen scientists from across Austria joined the @oeadcitizenscience.bsky.social workshop in Vienna to co-design the future of citizen science infrastructure in Europe.

🔗 More: concept.riecs.eu/2025/11/26/c...

📌 The @riecs-concept.bsky.social consortium was meeting in Milan on 24–25 September 2025 for two days of workshops hosted by the University of Milano-Bicocca.

🔗Find more information: concept.riecs.eu/2025/11/19/b...

📢 Join us at the Barcelona Citizen Science Conference for Workshop 7: @riecs-concept.bsky.social: Technological Challenges for a European Citizen Science Infrastructure❗

🗓️ 18 November 2025 | 12:45–13:45 CET
📍 Sala Ramón y Cajal, PRBB, Barcelona

🔗 More information: concept.riecs.eu/2025/11/14/w...

📢 Join us in our workshop at PartWiss 25 (Leipzig, 12–14 Nov 2025): Shaping Tomorrow’s Citizen Science Research Infrastructure in Germany: A Co-Design Experience❗️

🔗 Conference Programme: www.partizipation-wissenschaft.de/konferenz_20...

🔗 More: concept.riecs.eu/2025/11/12/s...

📢 CS4Health 2025 Conference in Zurich

On 7 November (10:00-10:45 CET), the @riecs-concept.bsky.social project will host the Solution Room “Listening, Learning, and Shaping” – a session where participants will co-design the future of citizen science in health

🔗More: concept.riecs.eu/2025/11/05/l...

📢 On 22 October 2025, researchers, librarians, and policymakers met at Vilnius University Library’s SCIC (Vilnius, Lithuania) for the international conference “Open Science Today and Tomorrow”

📌 Moderated by Dr Monika Mačiulienė (@riecs-concept.bsky.social)

🔗More: concept.riecs.eu/2025/10/29/o...

📢 The first @riecs-concept.bsky.social Newsletter❗

✨At six months, @riecs-concept.bsky.social looks back with pride and ahead with purpose - building the foundation for a lasting European Research Infrastructure for Excellent Citizen Science✨

🔗 More information: concept.riecs.eu/2025/10/22/t...

@oeadcitizenscience.bsky.social @riecs-concept.bsky.social

📢 Make a Wish: A Shared Infrastructure for Citizen Science in Europe

🧩 Interactive workshop at the OIS zam: Forum – Participatory Science Conference in Vienna, will explore this question.

🔗 More information: ois.lbg.ac.at/ois-zam-foru...

📢 Strengthening Citizen Science in Austria and Europe

📅 On October 3, 2025, @oeadcitizenscience.bsky.social will host the @riecs-concept.bsky.social Workshop with Austrian Citizen Scientists in Vienna.

🔗 More information: concept.riecs.eu/2025/10/02/r...

📢 On 1 October 2025, Madrid will host a key event for the future of citizen science in Spain: the Citizen Science Workshop, organised by @ibercivis.bsky.social together with the European project @riecs-concept.bsky.social

🧩 More information: concept.riecs.eu/2025/09/29/c...

@riecs-concept.bsky.social x @ars.electronica.art Festival 2025: Join the Citizen Science Townhall in Linz

​​✨ Whether you’re a researcher, citizen, or part of a citizen science network, join the bigger conversation!

READ MORE: concept.riecs.eu/2025/08/27/r...

📢 Deliverable 4.1: Engagement Methodology Protocol

📌 How can we ensure that citizens, researchers, policy-makers, educators, and technologists all have a voice in shaping the future of science?

READ MORE: concept.riecs.eu/2025/08/20/b...

📢 Part 3 of 3: Why CAPS2025 Was a Turning Point for @riecs-concept.bsky.social

📌 READ MORE:
🔗 The full report: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🔗 @riecs-concept.bsky.social website: concept.riecs.eu/reports/

Part 2 of 3: Building Together — @riecs-concept.bsky.social’s First Global Co-Design Exchange

✨READ MORE:

🔗 The full report on the outcomes of the symposium: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🔗 @riecs-concept.bsky.social website: concept.riecs.eu/reports/

📢A new paper by researchers from the EMBIMOS group at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) has been published in Citizen Science: Theory and Practice.

📌 Read more: concept.riecs.eu/2025/07/30/a...

📌Part 1/3: Trust, Tools, and Time – What Global Leaders Taught Us at #CAPS2025.

Citizen science infrastructure is built on stories, at the #CAPS2025 symposium by @riecs-concept.bsky.social, we heard some powerful ones.

🔗Report: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
🔗More: concept.riecs.eu/reports/

📢 Six Months Strong: How @riecs-concept.bsky.social Laying the Groundwork for a Citizen Science Infrastructure in Europe❗

✨Read more: concept.riecs.eu/2025/07/16/s...