The 19th May 2016 was a special day for the European Citizen Science Association, with the opening of the first conference of the organisation, focusing on the links between citizen science and open science.*
Aletta Bonn (Helmholtz Association | German Center for integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) – GEWISS). welcomed everyone to the conference, exploring the balances between technology, inclusion. We have 350 people that came from different projects to discuss citizen science, and there is already a working document that aim to support citizen science. In 2013, the coalition agreement declared ‘we want to develop new forms of citizen participation and the communication of science’ – the ministry of science this week talk about science for all. We have three full days. The first day dedicated to policy impact and social impact – we will have different ways to work togehter. The second day is about sicnetific innovation – we have almost 100 posters for people to talk to people, the third day is open to the maker community in Berlin – celebrating success in many project. We have an unconference programme in the thinkcamp. We have the citizen science disco on the second night, and a citizen science festival – linking to the Barcelona last year. We had a big conference committee and many people where happy to help. The people who run the effort of Susanna and Ogarit on making the event hapenning. The communication. We will also have the new citizen science journal and also a joint book is in the planning.
ECSA Katrin Vohland Museum of Natural History Berlin – GEWISS, Vice-chair ECSA. Ciizen science is now a global movement. Institutionalisation is a signal – with ECSA, CSA and also network in China, New Zealand, and other places. There is also coming together on identity in the pcinciples of citizen science. Citizen science should be part of identitiy of democratisation, European culture of joint effort. Citizen science also go through professionalisation – we exchange not only experience, but we also think of social and poitical impact. Citizen science have an impact o- citizen science gains discoursice power in the scientific ad political arna. While we are getting over the issue of trusting data, other issues emerge – there is no tradeoff between freedom of academic research and citizen science. We can see links to policy, and to responsible research and innovation. ECSA members jointly developed a strategy : promoting sustainability, developig a thinktank for citizen science, and developed methodology. We want to see marginalised groups joining in participatory science. Citizen science can also help migrants to join citizen science. There are now H2020 projects – among them DITOs which links the dots in citizen science.
Roger Owen Head of Ecology, Scottish Environment Protection Agency. For an environmental protection agencies – the regulate, but also establishing partnerships, raising environmenta l awareness, and also in building up the evidence based – this is important to other people who act on the environment. This is als an opportunity to assess the success of policies. For EPAs, public engagement helps in raising awareness, engagement, getting data. In the range of tools that are avaialbe to EPAs, there can be expert assessment that is very expensive – and citizzen science is cost effective. Activities in Scotland – in meteorological observations, 650 anglers that do ecological assessment of streams, developing apps, and they commissioned a guide for the best use of citizen science for EPAs, There is now a network through the EEA to engage in citizen science activites: well design cit sci passist policy formation, provide monitoring data and evidence; serve as early warning, harness volutneer thinking, work across scals and more. EPAs can provde data and infrastructure, access to technology (e.g. apps), provide best practice guidelines, help with funding. The EPA network want to understand the success criteria and lessons from initatives. The want ot understand motivations and incentives. They want also joint and complementary ECSA/EPA network activites across Europe.
Citizen science – Connecting to the Open Science Agenda Jose-Miguel Rubio Policy Officer at the Directorate General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission. on behalf of John Magen. Provide the policy context for open science. One of the major drivers for open science is the digital single market (andrus Ansip, Gunter Oettinger, Moedas). The research and innovation team of the EU is central: Moedas stated: help us ensure citizen scientists contribute to Eurpean Science as valid knowledge producers by 2020′ during the open science conference in April 2016. By open science, we meetthe transformation and opening up of the scientific process, through collaborative work that is facilitated by innovative information and communication technologies. We see shift from only publications, to sharing knowedge through the web: it makes it more efficient, transparents and collaboraative. The benefits that are expected – good for science (efficient, varified, transparent), economy (access and reuse of scientific knowledge by industry, and good for society (broader, faster, transparent, and equal access to it). The open science evolved from public consultation that started 2 years ago – on science 2.0. Policy recommendations include the need to support citizen science platforms, and support its development. 5 broad policy actions which include citizen science in them – creating incentives, removing barriers, promoting open access, developing open science cloud, and embedding open science in society. Citiznen science is appearing in the top level ambitions. Citizen science is embedded in specific approaches by research funding, making it linked to society. There are several activities that relate to ctiizen sciecne and public engagement. Seeing citizens are many roles: scientis , consumer, decision maker, user of data. In H2020, which is much of the biggest funding programme for science in the world, including citizen science – through open access. Examples for the activites are the collective awareness platforms for social innovation and sustainability (CAPS programme) including bottom up activities. There is also reports about citizen science – the white paper of socientize, and the UWE on environmental citizen science, there are the Citizens’ Observatories projects including 5 FP7 projects, and 4 new projects that start next year – LandSense, GROW, GroundTruth2.0 and Scent (ECSA is member in one). The MyGEOSS competition is another area of activity
Josep Perell
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