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The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of Common Agricultural Policy(CAP) subsidies on agricultural (labour and total factor) productivity growth of EUregions during the period 2004–2012. The objective is to assess the impact of thispolicy on agricultural growth and competitiveness of regions, first in the aftermath ofthe fundamental reforms of the decoupling policy and second during the historiceastward enlargement of the EU, which deepened asymmetric spatial patterns andmay have led to the CAP having a different spatial impact. The analysis uses aneconometric approach based on an augmented Cobb-Douglas production function.The impact is proved to be mixed; positive when thechangeof subsidies with a 1-year lag is considered, which is related to farm strategies, and negative when thelevelof subsidies, which is based on reference data, is considered. In the case of the newmember states, the effect is negative, confirming the CAP’s incompatibility with theagricultural structures of the area.

This short paper summarizes the outcomes of an analysis aimed at identifying a set of best practices in serious games, which can support public participation in citizen observatories.

This publication entitled 'Innovation Sensors for Crowdsourced River Measurements Collection' published at the 16th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology in Rhodes, Greece between 4 and 7 September 2019.

This publication entitled 'Innovation Sensors for Crowdsourced River Measurements Collection' published at the 16th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology in Rhodes, Greece between 4 and 7 September 2019.&nbsp

This document has been created by the community of Citizen Observatories and Citizen Science practitioners, as well as key collaborators that attended the Citizen Science working session in the EuroGEO Workshop taking place on July 3-5th, 2019 at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento in Lisbon (Portugal). The event was co-organised by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the European Commission (EC). This document summarises the current status of Citizen Science in GEO/GEOSS, reflects the vision, and objectives; identifies issues that are blocking its progress and proposes a way forward shared by the Citizen Observatories and Citizen Science projects under the EuroGEO community. Then, it proposes a shared vision, a clear set of objectives and some actions that will pave the way to progress towards that shared vision, based on aggregating citizen science into a federation of data services supported by the Citizen Science community activity in the GEO work program that represents the citizen science community. Finally, it defines a list of recommendations to the European Commission to improve the integration of the European Citizen Science and Citizen Observatories into GEOSS. It thereby emphasises regional strength and competences without losing sight of global collaborations.

This presentation, delivered at the ECSA conference 2020, discusses key insights and recommendations acquired from the WeObserve project, to inform the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme as well as other funding programmes and CO practitioners more generally.WeObserve delivers the first European-wide Citizen Observatory (CO) knowledge platform to share and highlight best practices and to identify and address challenges to inform practitioners, policy makers and funders of (future) COs.