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EU-Citizen.Science workroom - Citizen science clinic

EU-Citizen.Science
  • July 2021
  • Education & learning
  • Topics in science
  • Material for workshops and exhibitions
  • Video

In June and July 2021, Ecsite and the EU-Citizen.Science project organised a citizen science clinic, a workroom dedicated to the impacts of citizen science.

Participants had the chance to learn from citizen science experts from around the world and work on real case studies. Through a series of structured exercises and interactions with other participants, they reflected on strategies to guarantee impact in their citizen science project.

The three sessions included a mix of formats, keynotes, inspirational cases, hands-on workshops to address the implementation of impact assessment frameworks, good practices, and financial sustainability strategies.

Each week, a plenary session has been broadcasted on YouTube to be accessible to the whole community:

Day 1: Inspiring stories

Keynote from Anne Bowser, Director of Innovation at the Wilson Center, Washington, DC

 

Day 2: Impact assessment frameworks

Panel of different impact assessment frameworks

 

Day 3: Financial sustainability

Keynote from Linden Farrer, Project Officer at the European Commission, on the financial options for Citizen Science projects in Horizon Europe

 

Programme of the three sessions:

Day 1: Inspiring stories

Keynote from Anne Bowser, Director of Innovation at the Wilson Center, Washington, DC

Project presentations:

Guillem Camprodon from Making sense: Societal impact
Aitana Oltra from Mosquito Alert: Scientific impact
Dilek Fraisl from IIASA: Citizen science and the SDGs
Anna Berti Suman from Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society: Political impact

 

Day 2: Impact assessment frameworks

Panel of different impact assessment frameworks:

Barbara Kieslinger from ZSI
Antonella Passani from Action
Stephen Parkinson from MICS

 

Day 3: Financial sustainability

Keynote from Linden Farrer, Project Officer at the European Commission, on the financial options for Citizen Science projects in Horizon Europe

Panel presentation of different business model types that can sustain citizen science initiatives:

Rosa Arias from Science for Change: Creating a start-up - a path towards sustainability of CS projects
Norbert Steinhaus from Bonn Science Shop: sustainability of Citizen Science through science shops
Marco Sebastionnelli from Plusvalue: impact investing and links with citizen science

Keywords

  • citizen science
  • impact
  • impact assessment framework
  • financial sustainability

Project

EU-Citizen.Science

Citizen Science is a rapidly expanding and diversifying field of innovation with significant implications for, and potential benefits to, society, policy, and various academic research areas. The ambition of EU-Citizen.Science is to build, fill, and promote a sustainable platform and mutual learning space for providing different tools, best practice examples and relevant scientific outcomes that are collected, curated, and made accessible to different stakeholders, ranging from interested citizens over scientific institutions up to politicians and public media in order to mainstream Citizen Science in Europe.

Workroom

Citizen Science Clinic: How to achieve impact with your citizen science project

The Citizen Science Clinic ran from 21 June to 6 July and has now ended.

What kind of impact do I want to get from my citizen science project? And how can I guarantee that it leads to a "genuine scientific outcome" and achieves the desired societal impact, whether in terms of “answering a research question" or "informing conservation actions, empowering citizens, impacting decisions or environmental policy?" How can I ensure and monitor this impact?