The process of integrating citizen and community science within research institutions and universities is full of challenges and opportunities. This webinar, from the European TIME4CS and INCENTIVE projects, explores lessons learned from a range of institutions and their experiences, from our symposium on the topic at the CSA’s C*Sci conference in May 2023, and from webinar participants on the day.
Participants have the opportunity to hear about and discuss potential strategies for embedding citizen science within institutions.
Participants can also share their own experiences and contribute to the creation of a resource to share possible pathways to integrate activities to promote and embed citizen science in research performing organisations (RPOs), hopefully supporting this often difficult process. The final resource will, of course, be openly available on the EU-citizen.science platform, project websites and shared widely.
The webinar is a combined effort of the TIME4CS and INCENTIVE projects.
To download the agenda follow this link.
More about our great speakers:
Gitte Kragh (AU/TIME4CS)
Gitte Kragh, PhD, is based at Aarhus University in Denmark with experience from citizen science projects from four continents. She is particularly interested in the interdisciplinarity required for successful citizen science projects within any discipline, as well as facilitating researchers new to citizen science, enabling them to use citizen science as a methodology within their projects
Muki Haklay (UCL/TIME4CS)
Prof Muki Haklay (Department of Geography, UCL) is a Professor of Geographical Information Science (GISc). He has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research, and is the co-director of the Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) research group. He is also the citizen science team lead at the Learning Planet Institute, Paris.
His research interest includes participatory mapping and GIS, Citizen Science, Human-Computer Interactions (HCI) and usability aspects of GIS, and public access to environmental information.
Sofia Mojica (UAB/INCENTIVE)
Political scientist, with a MSc in Management of Sustainable Development Goals. With 5+ years of experience in Project Management, working with the 4H. Since 2021, creating bridges between science and society. Piloting a Citizen Science Hub and offering short trainings to introduce Citizen Science to different target groups at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, in Spain.