ECSA’s second Diversity and Inclusiveness workshop will take place over Zoom on Wednesday 2 June at 16:00 CEST. This series is being co-organised by four partners: ECSA, the ECSA & Living Knowledge Network working group on empowerment, inclusiveness and equity, D-NOSES and Cos4Cloud. We will be hearing from Judy Ling Wong (Honorary President, Black Environmental...
We are pleased to introduce our two new ECSA’s Student Assistants: Ciara and Alicia! Ciara will be working mainly within communications at ECSA and Cos4Cloud, organising workshops, editing the monthly newsletter, writing policy briefs and building relationships with stakeholders. She is currently completing a Master’s in Aquatic Conservation, Ecology and Restoration at UCL (UK), after...
A new open-access book, ‘The Science of Citizen Science’, is now available. Published by Springer, it features contributions from more than 100 authors, including several ECSA staff and members. “This book is a wonderful conclusion of four years of intensive exchange within a European research network on citizen science,” says Dr Katrin Vohland, Director General...
ECSA is delighted to announce its new Executive Board appointments. Dr Susanne Hecker is the new ECSA chair, and Enrico M. Balli is the new vice-chair. Susanne and Enrico were voted for by ECSA’s members at the our annual general meeting for 2020, held on 27 November. At this meeting, ECSA members also agreed to...
06-08 Sept. 2020 | Due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency underway in Italy, Europe and worldwide, we have decided to postpone the conference to September 6-8 (same location).
Changes to the EU’s regulations regarding ICT-based research and innovation are creating a new scenario, one to which stakeholders, policymakers and citizens must adapt – and as quickly as possible. This is likely to be challenging, however. Enter PANELFIT. This project – ‘Participatory Approaches to a New Ethical and Legal Framework for ICT’ – will help different stakeholders adapt to and understand these new regulations.
We are pleased to announce Susanne Hecker as one of ECSA’s new board members, along with Uta Wehn. Here, Susanne tells us a little about her research career and involvement in citizen science.
We are pleased to announce Dr Uta Wehn as one of ECSA’s new board members, along with Susanne Hecker. Here, Uta tells us a little about her research career and involvement in citizen science.
In response to numerous requests for extra time to complete proposals, and queries about the different possible session formats, we have agreed to extend the deadline for submissions until 1 November 2019.
Many of the ECSA headquarters team will take part in the Global Climate Strike in Berlin this Friday (20 September) to show our support for this essential movement. The climate crisis is a major threat to human civilization For several months, in an initiative started by Greta Thunberg, young people around the world have been missing school each Friday (under the banner #FridaysForFuture) to demand real action to tackle global heating and demand their right to a future that isn’t defined by the climate crisis.
