This session will explore how the Ecsite community can do more quality Citizen Science (CS) through co-operation. It is linked to the pre-conference workshop “Partnering up for Citizen Science” and aims at discussing the results of the workshop with participants of the main conference.

Citizen Science has many homes and successful projects require cooperation – not only between citizens and facilitators. Museums and science centers need to become connected to and work with CS experts from research and formal education institutions, open innovation communities (e.g. media-, fab-, biolabs), CS platforms and science communication. Each of these sectors has a specific understanding of what quality means for CS, which is a mayor challenge for such cooperations in addition to the management and communication hurdles. We will share experiences on models of cooperation and discuss quality criteria to explore the benefits and challenges of CS for science centres and museums.

Speakers are experts from the sectors mentioned above championing CS projects in a broad range of research areas.