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We will co-create and find new funding schemes to boost the impact and value of citizen sciences and sustain them in time. Funded by HorizonEurope.

https://impetus4cs.eu/
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🎉 We’re entering the final phase of the 2025 #IMPETUS Accelerator! Celebrate inspiring #CitizenScience projects empowering communities & building #CircularCommunities & #FairSocieties 🌍

👉 impetus4cs.eu/accelerator-...
🌍 #CitizenScience Spotlight: Dingle Peninsula Living Lab, Ireland — an EU Prize for Citizen Science 2025 Honorary Mention for community-led climate action and rural sustainability.

calls.ars.electronica.art/2025/prix/wi...

#ClimateAction #Sustainability #CommunityLed #OpenScience
January 15, 2026 at 9:56 AM
#IMPETUSInterviews.... The sky is not the limit with #citizenscience

In this conversation, we speak with Enrique Moreno Torres SERVET, who enables students and space-science enthusiasts to send experiments to near-space using weather balloons.

impetus4cs.eu/impetus-inte...

#spacescience
January 14, 2026 at 9:55 AM
#CitizenScience Resource

Join the INSPIRING ERA online event to explore effective public engagement and citizen science through successful initiatives from across Europe.

27 January
10:00–12:00 CET,
www.inspiring-era.eu/event/engagi...

#publicengagement #citsci #EUresearch
January 13, 2026 at 10:23 AM
#citizenscience reading club

This paper argues that citizen science must shift from “supplementary” to “essential,” helping to replace lost surveys and strengthen official statistics through flexible, participatory data systems.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#SDGs #datagovernance
January 12, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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#DemocratisingScience and #Safeguarding #AcademicFreedom

Join our 22 Jan online workshop to explore evidence, gaps, and policy needs with researchers & practitioners.

Co-hosted by Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, ImmunoPreCept, BMFTR, and EUSEA.

berlinschooltraining214.questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...
January 8, 2026 at 9:58 AM
#Citizenscience Spotlight 🐸

Xenopia is a feminist citizen science project reclaiming digital pregnancy tests as open tools for abortion care & autonomy, co-created with hacker communities.

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#pregancy #womenshealth

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January 7, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Happy Holidays from the entire #IMPETUS team.

See you all in 2026!
December 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🎉 We’re entering the final phase of the 2025 #IMPETUS Accelerator! Celebrate inspiring #CitizenScience projects empowering communities & building #CircularCommunities & #FairSocieties 🌍

👉 impetus4cs.eu/accelerator-...
December 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🌟 #citizenscience spotlight

PAIR connects Parkinson’s patients and students to learn, create and support each other. It builds empathy, reduces isolation and challenges stigma. An inspiring model of inclusive #citsci.

calls.ars.electronica.art/2025/prix/wi...

#Parkinsons
December 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
#citizenscience Resource

📘 New open-access read: The Science of Citizen Science shows how citizen participation helps tackle climate change, biodiversity loss & social inequalities, offering tools, cases & guidance for anyone engaging with #scisci.

🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
December 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
#citizenscience reading club

This study shows how techniques like missing-data analysis, imputation, and model diagnostics can tackle bias, noise, and inconsistency in citizen-generated datasets, boosting reliability and replicability.

researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...

#datascience
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🌱 #CitizenScience Spotlight

Oeiras Experimenta is turning agro-ecosystems into a living lab for climate-resilient crops, shaping a sustainable, climate-ready food system.

🔗 www.itqb.unl.pt/science-and-...

#sustainability #climate #foodsecurity
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🎁 Competitive Edge: Understanding the New European Commission Funding Landscape

📅 Date: December 16
⏰ Time: 12:30–14:00 CET
🔗 Online

Find out more here:
eusea.info/news/competi...

#publicengagement #scicomm #sciencecommunication #funding #EUprojects
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
#citizenscience spotlight

🌋 Katla Geopark turns Iceland’s volcanic + coastal landscapes into a living lab! Students + visitors track shoreline + glacier change, strengthening climate science.

#Climate

www.katlageopark.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
#Citizenscience reading club

What if citizen science isn’t always empowering?

Mayes shows how media frame #healthscience as helpful, corrective, or risky, shaping who is seen as credible.

doi.org/10.1177/0162...
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
IMPETUS interviews...

The Anti-Quake Risk Hunter Community in Istanbul is empowering neighbours to map risks & boost earthquake readiness.

Featuring Yelda A. Gulkilik & Vincent Bouvard.

impetus4cs.eu/impetus-inte...

#citizenscience #disasterprepareness #earthqua
IMPETUS Interviews… Anti-Quake Risk Hunter Community - Impetus4cs - Impetus For Citizen Science Project
impetus4cs.eu
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
#citizenscience Resource

@eusea.bsky.social training - #AI in Public Engagement: Protecting Sensitive #Data and Reducing #Bias

by Johanna Barnbeck from Spread the Nerd
Dec 17, 09:30-13:30 CET

eusea.info/news/eusea-t...
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
#citizenscience spotlight

Hollandse Luchten puts residents at the heart of #airquality research.

Using simple sensors, communities investigate #pollution, build shared data, and work with experts + local authorities.

hollandse-luchten.org

#Environment
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
#Citizenscience Reading Club

Persistent inequalities in citizen science: a 20-year study of Sweden’s Artportalen shows older men still dominate reporting, even after major ICT upgrades.

Tech ≠ inclusion.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Equity #technology
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
#IMPETUSInterviews#Citizenscience unveiling microscopic #biodiversity and #microplastic pollution

🌊 Watch out! Don’t Step on me! brings schools & underrepresented groups into marine research, exploring beach micro-life & microplastics.

youtu.be/znOvECGnvao
IMPETUS Interview.... Citizen science unveiling microscopic biodiversity and microplastic pollution
YouTube video by IMPETUS for citizen science
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November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#Citizenscience Resources

Curators of information matter. A new guide from @senseaboutsci.bsky.social shows why librarians, editors & journalists are key to trustworthy research.

senseaboutscience.org/wp-content/u...

#ScienceCommunication
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Sasha Woods from @earthwatcheurope.bsky.social reports on #CitizenScience projects around the world and argues that the active involvement of non-scientists in the scientific research process is a powerful tool in the efforts to combat environmental injustice

#PeoplePower #Environment #Biodiversity
People power
Sasha Woods shows how citizen science can be a powerful tool for addressing environmental injustice
www.resurgence.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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We are at the II Congrés de ciència ciutadana. Paving the way! #citizenscience @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social #InvAdapt
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🌿#CitizenScience Spotlight

INPN Espèces is a free French app that helps identify local species via photo + GPS. Expert-validated observations feed national & global databases—and have even revealed new species.

www.mnhn.fr/en/inpn-spec...

#biodiversity #conservation
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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📢 Ahir i avui, som al II Congrés de Ciència Ciutadana al Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona ( @prbb.org )!

Des de l’Institut Metròpoli hem presentat els projectes BioPlatgesMet, Vigilants de la Calor i Click-Kids.

👉 Descobreix els nostres projectes: www.institutmetropoli.cat/ca/recerca/r...
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM