Open Science is a core strategy of the European Commission that involves widening participation and collaboration as well as sharing research processes and outcomes to improve research and innovation. The collaborative and inclusive characteristics of Open Science allow all social actors to engage in scientific processes, including through citizen and participatory science.

This webinar will provide an overview of citizen science as part of the Open Science strategy and present how citizen science projects are set up within that framework. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with speakers and get first-hand information on how to effectively integrate citizen science in research methodology and what aspects to take into account in the proposal development.

The webinar is a combined effort of the TIME4CS, INCENTIVE and ECS projects.

To download the agenda follow this link.

More about our great speakers:

Claudia Iasillo

Claudia Iasillo joined APRE in 2018. She holds a MSc degree in Biotechnology and a PhD in Molecular Biology. After PhD, she focused on science communication and public engagement in science activities by studying science journalism and institutional communication.

In APRE she works as project manager and she focuses on science and society relationship: science communication, Open Science, Citizen Science, stakeholder and public engagement, community building and capacity building.

She has been involved in several EU funded projects and she is currently coordinating the H2020 project TIME4CS and the HE projects BlueRev and PATTERN. 

Claudia Fabó Cartas

Claudia Fabó Cartas is a political scientist by training having specialised in political theory who has since turned her attention towards citizen science.

Claudia joined the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) as a project officer at the beginning of 2021. She has been involved in several EU-funded projects (EU-Citizen.Science, Cos4Cloud and ACCTING) and is currently the project manager of the European Citizen Science (ECS) project, aimed at widening and strengthening the European citizen science community through capacity-building and awareness-raising activities.

Before joining ECSA, Claudia was part of the team of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin organising the Citizen Science SDG Conference in October 2020 on citizen science’s contribution to framing and achieving the SDGs.

Beatriz Noriega Ortega

Beatriz Noriega Ortega holds a MSc degree in marine microbiology and a doctorate in marine biogeochemistry. She was always passionate about science communication, as well as diversity and inclusion in scientific environments and the interphase between science and society. This is why she joined the European Citizen Science in 2021, first as a communication officer and later as the project officer of SOCIO-BEE, COMPAIR and RAISE-CS. As project officer she focuses on communications, stakeholder engagement and public engagement.  She is interested in how citizen science can promote a green and just transition by involving the public in scientific activities.