The EU-funded ECS (European Citizen Science) project aims to create a network of 28 citizen science ambassadors (EU-27 + UK) to support its activities, raise awareness of citizen science and disseminate and strengthen citizen science in Europe.
Applications are open until June 29, 2023
The 28 citizen science ambassadors will be selected to act as local representatives and promoters of citizen science and the ECS project in their respective countries.
ECS ambassadors will support and promote ECS activities, and more generally raise awareness of citizen science, spread and strengthen citizen science in Europe.
If you'd like to find out more about becoming an active member of a growing citizen science community, read the candidate's guide here!
Strengthening the citizen science community across Europe
With the overall aim of expanding and strengthening the European citizen science community, the ECS (European Citizen Science), is focused on supporting and empowering citizen scientists, as well as expanding and strengthening their initiatives across Europe. For example, by creating a European Academy of Citizen Science, under the aegis of Université Cité Paris and the Learning Planet Institute.
All the initiatives supported by the project are aimed at one or more of the following objectives:
- Strengthening the European citizen science community through co-design and co-creation.
- Strengthening ties and collaboration between existing citizen science initiatives
- Increasing the participation of citizens from all walks of life to citizen science through an inclusive approach
- Strengthen ability to conduct research and an innovation from’excellence thanks to citizen science
- Raising awareness, supporting and integrating citizen science among new players, new territories and new scientific fields.
- Better adapt data infrastructures to the needs of citizen science, and improving open science practices employed by citizen science initiatives
Create a multidisciplinary network for citizen science in Europe (EU-27 + UK)
To achieve these goals, the ECS project is launching this month its call for 28 citizen science ambassadors across Europe (EU-27 + UK).
Are you interested in problem solving? If so, unleash your passion for citizen science and make a difference. Become a citizen science ambassador and join a dynamic community. Together, let's expand the citizen science community.
Zahra Farook, Université Paris Cité - Learning Planet Institute, France
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Open and citizen science has been at the heart of the Institute for a Learning Planet since its creation.
Open science and citizen science have been the guiding principles of the Learning Planet Institute since its creation, and have been embodied in all our projects. R&D division. Thanks to the work of its citizen science team, the Institute supports a series of projects that involve people from all walks of life in research projects.
Thanks to citizen science, everyone can participate in many stages of the scientific process, from the conception of the research question to the publication and dissemination of results, via data collection, volunteer mapping, data interpretation and analysis. Citizen scientists, as contributors, collaborators or project leaders, play an important role in the scientific project. Everyone is a potential researcher.
As part of the ECS project, our researchers are committed to creating high-quality resources and activities to enhance the skills and knowledge of citizen science practitioners, civil society, public authorities, businesses, (in)formal and educational institutions, museums, public libraries and research funding and delivery bodies.
The Institute is also involved in the citizen science project PATTERN, which aims to promote the practice of open and responsible research and innovation (Open RRI) by developing and piloting training activities for researchers at all stages of their careers.
In the past, the Learning Planet Institute has also been the French partner of the European “Learning Planet" project.“Doing It Together Science (DITOs)”, a three-year European project that came to an end in 2019. The aim of DiTOs was to empower and engage citizens and policymakers in open scientific research and innovation. To continue this commitment, The Learning Planet Institute was also one of six partners in the transdisciplinary consortium Crowd4SDG. The program - which ends in March 2023 - was a research and innovation action supported by the European Commission's Science program, and encouraged the development of citizen science projects focused on climate action.
Visit European Citizen Science (ECS) project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation framework program under grant agreement no. 101058509. The Learning Planet Institute and Université Paris Cité are partners in this project.
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The Citizen Science team of the Institute for an Intelligent Planet :
- Muki Haklay - Team leader of the Citizen Science team, professor and co-director of the Extreme Citizen Science group at’UCL
- Cléa Montanari - Research assistant on the ECS project
- Andrea Giraldo Sevilla - Project manager on PATTERN
- Zahra Farook - student in the AIRE master program
