ECSA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) for 2020 took place on 27 November 2020. It was held as an online event. At this meeting for 2020, our members elected a new executive board, with Dr. Susanne Hecker appointed the new ECSA chair, and Enrico M. Balli appointed as vice-chair. Profressor Johannes Vogel was elected as our...
ECSA was proud to be an associate partner of EU Green Week 2021 , which was held online and in Lahti, Finland in May and June. Our chair, Susanne Hecker, gave a keynote address at the opening event, and citizen science was a prominent theme throughout the event. Many of the session videos are available...
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...
ECSA headquarters delivered a 5-day training called “The nuts and bolts of citizen science”. The request from a Ukrainian NGO was the opportunity for putting together the rich knowledge we have among our network. Ten participants were learning and exchanging views about citizen science and we envision further collaborations with them! You can...
On 27 April 2021, the D-Noses project will host its first webinar. The theme for this event is citizen science for odour monitoring in the water and waste sectors. The closing session will be led by Inês dos Santos Costa, Secretary of State for the Environment in Portugal, and Sérgio Carmo Fonseca, a member of...
ECSA & EU-Citizen.Science webinar: Introducing new citizen science projects launching in 2021. Our webinar on the 26th May 2021 (14.00-15.30 CEST) will highlight new citizen science projects starting in 2021, with short talks from three early career researchers: – Famke Mölenberg (she/her/hers) (Erasmus MC, Netherlands) is an epidemiologist working on SEEDS, which aims to engage...
EU Green Week 2021 and ECSA have signed a Memorandum of Agreement on an Associates Partnership. EU Green Week will promote ECSA as an associate partner, and ECSA will promote EU Green Week across the citizen science community. EU Green Week 2021 will focus on ‘zero pollution’ for healthier people and the planet. It will...
Would you like to host our next conference? We are re-opening our call to host the 4th international ECSA conference, which will be held in autumn 2022. If you are interested in submitting a proposal, you can find more information on our website: Host the 4th ECSA Conference 2022 You can also get in touch...
Our next webinar, being held on 30 March 2021 (14:00-15:30 CEST), focuses on the WeObserve project. WeObserve tackles three key challenges that citizens observatories face: (1) awareness, (2) acceptability and (3) sustainability. Its overall mission is to create a sustainable ecosystem of citizen observatories that can systematically address these identified challenges and help move citizen...
On 2 March 2021 (11:00-12:00 CET), Jaqui Goldin, from the Centre for UNESCO Groundwater, will present the latest findings from a groundwater-monitoring citizen science project based in the Hout Catchment, Limpopo Province – one of the poorest provinces in South Africa. In this project, citizen scientists capture data on groundwater levels and rainfall, putting it...
