This webinar has a focus on young people and their participation in projects about conservation and biodiversity; a recording of the webinar is available to watch on YouTube. It is part of a wider series initiated by members of the ECSA working group on “Learning and Education in Citizen Science” and the Citizen Science COST...
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...
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...
The LandSense project, which recently ended, was hugely successful, with a number of useful lessons and outcomes. On 3 February, 14:00-15:30 (CET), the team behind the project will be sharing some of their experiences and findings at an ECSA/EU-Citizen.Science webinar. Speakers include: Inian Moorthy: An overview of LandSense Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond: Integrating crowdsourced data with authoritative...
A date for your diaries: on 24 February 2021 (15:00-16:30 CET), Cos4Cloud will be running an ECSA/EU-Citizen.Science webinar to share the project’s progress so far. This is a chance for the citizen science community, and anyone else with an interest in this project, to find out more and put their questions to the project team....
