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This chapter considers the interface of citizen science, health, and environmental justice. We review citizen science research undertaken by civic educators, scientists, and communities that aims to broaden scientific knowledge and encourage democratic engagement and, more specifically, to address complex problems related to public health and the environment. We provide a review of the current state of existing citizen science projects and examine how citizen science, health, and environmental justice impact each other, both positively and negatively. Specific challenges that relate to these projects are discussed, especially those that are not obvious or applicable to more traditional citizen science projects.

A digital resource providing recommendations for engagement and awareness raising surrounding citizen science

Podeu consultar el llibre complet a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/173349, This book is the culmination of the COST Action CA15212 Citizen Science to Promote Creativity, Scientific Literacy, and Innovation throughout Europe. It represents the final stage of a shared journey taken over the last 4 years. During this relatively short period, our citizen science practices and perspectives have rapidly evolved. The COST Action started in 2016, when citizen science was gaining momentum in Europe and worldwide. The first international citizen science conference took place in San José, California, in 2012. This period also saw the foundation of citizen science organisations, such as the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, in 2014. These milestones were not isolated events in the evolution of citizen science. There was a confluence of factors on multiple levels: globally, nationally, and locally. There was a sense of urgency to find common spaces to discuss the widespread flourishing of citizen science practices. These factors led to the formation of the citizen science COST Action. The impetus for citizen science in Europe over the last few years is partially indebted to the activities and interactions of this COST Action. This has offered a panoramic view of new initiatives, recently built digital platforms, and ongoing hot topic debates in the citizen science community of practitioners. It also helped spark several European-funded projects. The most relevant example is EU-Citizen. Science, a coordination and support platform launched in 2019. Its goal is to become the European reference point for citizen science, through cross-network knowledge sharing on a multi-language repository website with access to projects and resources for all stakeholders....

The EU-Citizen.Science project will create a platform to raise awareness of citizen science, and facilitate engagement with citizen science projects. This document is an updated version of deliverable 4.2, which offered guidelines and recommendations for raising awareness of citizen science activities and projects among a variety of stakeholders. Through identification of existing projects and analysis of best practices, this report aims to establish a framework for increasing awareness in existing and new projects. A list of recommendations for awareness-raising among stakeholders is formulated based on existing literature. These recommendations are then allocated to the identified groups of stakeholders to suggest the most appropriate ways to raise awareness among different audiences. &nbsp

Book cover The Science of Citizen Science pp 461–474Cite as Citizen Science in the Digital World of Apps Rob Lemmens, Vyron Antoniou, Philipp Hummer & Chryssy Potsiou Chapter First Online: 12 January 2021 16k Accesses 8 Citations Abstract In this chapter, we highlight the added value of mobile and web apps to the field of citizen science. We provide an overview of app types and their functionalities to facilitate appropriate app selection for citizen science projects. We identify different app types according to methodology, data specifics, and data collection format. The chapter outlines good practices for creating apps. Citizen science apps need to ensure high levels of performance and usability. Social features for citizen science projects with a focus on mobile apps are helpful for user motivation and immersion and, also, can improve data quality via community feedback. The design, look and feel, and project identity are essential features of citizen science apps. We provide recommendations aimed at establishing good practice in citizen science app development. We also highlight future developments in technology and, in particular, how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can impact citizen science projects.

Editorial – The Science of Citizen Science Evolves -- Chapter 1: What Is Citizen Science? The Challenges of Definition -- Chapter 2: Citizen Science in Europe -- Part I: Citizen Science as Science -- Chapter 3: Science as a Commons: Improving the Governance of Knowledge through Citizen Science -- Chapter 4: Citizen Science in the Natural Sciences -- Chapter 5: Citizen Humanities -- Chapter 6: Citizen Social Science: New and Established Approaches to Participation in Social Research -- Chapter 7: Data Quality in Citizen Science -- Chapter 8: A Conceptual Model for Participants and Activities in Citizen Science Projects -- Chapter 9: Machine Learning in Citizen Science: Promises and Implications -- Chapter 10: Participation and Co-creation in Citizen Science -- Chapter 11: Citizen Science, Health, and Environmental Justice -- Part II: Citizen Science in Society -- Chapter 12: Participants in Citizen Science -- Chapter 13: Inclusiveness and Diversity in Citizen Science -- Chapter 14: Learning in Citizen Science Chapter -- Chapter 15: Citizen Science Case Studies and Their Impacts on Social Innovation -- Chapter 16: Science as a Lever: The Roles and Power of Civil Society Organisations in Citizen Science -- Chapter 17: Citizen Science and Policy -- Chapter 18: Creating Positive Environmental Impact through Citizen Science -- Chapter 19: Ethical Challenges and Dynamic Informed Consent -- Part III: Citizen Science in Practice -- Chapter 20: Finding What You Need: A Guide to Citizen Science Guidelines -- Chapter 21: Citizen Science Platforms -- Chapter 22: Citizen Science in the Digital World of Apps -- Chapter 23: Communication and Dissemination in Citizen Science -- Chapter 24: Evaluation in Citizen Science: The Art of Tracing a Moving Target Part IV: Conclusions / Lessons Learnt -- Chapter 25: The Recent Past and Possible Futures of Citizen Science: Final Remarks.

In the MICS project, curators (reviewers) have been assigned to oversee the results according to specific SDGs. These curators can also act as moderators in discussion in social media. Curators include experts from the MICS partners and the supporter community outside the consortium. Incentives are provided for them in WP5., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711

This report presents the 2020 status of the development of the MICS platform for measuring impact and the development of impact assessment indicators., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

This document is an updated version of deliverable 4.2, which offered guidelines and recommendations for raising awareness of citizen science activities and projects among a variety of stakeholders. Through identification of existing projects and analysis of best practice, this report aims to establish a framework for increasing awareness in existing and new projects. A list of recommendations for awareness-raising among stakeholders is formulated based on existing literature. These recommendations are then allocated to the identified groups of stakeholders to suggest the most appropriate ways to raise awareness among different audiences. &nbsp

This document is the updated version of D4.1.Itpresents a list of recommendations for achieving engagement of society, including policymakers, with citizen science. Through the identification of existing projects and analysis of best practice, this report aims to establish a framework for improving engagement in existing and new projects. A list of recommendations for engagement among stakeholders is formulated based on existing literature. These recommendations are then allocated to the identified groups of stakeholders to suggest the most appropriate ways to engage different audiences. &nbsp

This document provides supplementary material to the Characteristics of Citizen Science

This report presents the draft MICS Citizen Science Impact Assessment framework which constitutes the overarching structure within which novel and appropriate impact assessment methods will be provided for citizen science projects, including the MICS case studies, and which will be implemented via the MICS online platform., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

This document attempts to represent a wide range of opinions in an inclusive way, to allow for different types of projects and programmes, where context-specific criteria can be set.The characteristics outlined below are based on views expressed by researchers, practitioners, public officials and the wider public. Our aim is to identify the characteristics that should be considered when setting such criteria (e.g. a funding scheme), and we call upon readers to determine which subset of these characteristics is relevant to their own specific context and aims. These characteristics build on (and refer to) the ECSA 10 principles of citizen science as a summary of best practie – and projects are expected to engage meaningfully with them. Where it is especially pertinent, we refer to them in the characteristics below. The rest of the document covers the characteristics of citizen science under five sections: (1) core concepts; (2) disciplinary aspects; (3) leadership and participation; (4) financial aspects; and (5) data and knowledge. Further explanation and background are provided in the ‘ECSA’s characteristics of citizen science: explanation notes’ document. The research article describing this work 'Contours of citizen science: a vignette study' can be found in the Royal Society Open Science journal athttps://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202108.

This explanation document provides an interpretation of and explanation for the characteristics document, which was kept short to make it useful to different stakeholders. In this document, the characteristics document is represented, with the original text in blue and an explanation in black. The research article describing this work 'Contours of citizen science: a vignette study' can be found in the Royal Society Open Science journal athttps://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202108. &nbsp

The EU-Citizen.Science project will create a platform to raise awareness of citizen science, and facilitate engagement with citizen-science projects. This document offers guidelines and recommendations for raising awareness of citizen science activities and projects among a variety of stakeholders. Through identification of existing projects and analysis of best practice, this report aims to establish a framework for increasing awareness in existing and new projects. A list of recommendations for awareness-raising among stakeholders is formulated based on existing literature. These recommendations are then allocated to the identified groups of stakeholders to suggest the most appropriate ways to raise awareness among different audiences.

The multilingual ontology builds on the metadata scheme introduced in deliverable 3.3 “The MICS Repository”, and is presented as an associated module describing a project’s impact. It is related to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) domains, and the ontology’s vocabulary will be based, where possible, on EuroVoc, the EU’s multilingual thesaurus [http://eurovoc.europa.eu/drupal/]. This effort to make the ontology multilingual is to ensure the ontology is accessible across the MICS casestudy sites, and further afield., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

Encounters in Citizen Science - European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), 6-11 September 2020, Trieste, Italy, Citizen science is one of the eight priorities ofthe European Open Science Agenda, togetherwith the creation of the European OpenScience Cloud (EOSC). Citizen Science yieldsin a community that is continuouslyexpanding. This represents large-scalechallenges for citizen observatories whofacilitate an efficient capture, identification,validation, stewardship and storage of largevolumes of citizen science data. Within thisframework, the Horizon 2020 project,Co-designed Citizen Observatories Servicesfor the European Open Science Cloud(Cos4Cloud), aspires to integrate citizenobservatories in the EOSC ecosystem,developing essential research and technologyto co-design and prototype innovative services

This deliverable confirms that a data protection policy for the project will be kept on file. An evaluation of the ethics risks related to the data processing activities of the project is also presented, including an opinion if data protection impact assessment should be conducted under art.35 General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679. Detailed information on the informed consent procedures in regard to data processing will be kept on file., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

A clear strategy to the widespread dissemination of the project outcomes and deliverables; and the design of an exploitation strategy ensuring the long-term, post-grant sustainability and replicability of the outcomes and the expansion of the end-user base of the MICS platform. Detailed communication plan, and materials, including logos, templates for presentations, presentations about the project for the use of the partners. This deliverable will be updated and reported at each project meeting, from M04 to M36., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 82471