about European Citizen Science

European Citizen Science aims to create a globally connected, inclusive and strong citizen science community for societal change in Europe.
The European Citizen Science project has the overall objective to widen and strengthen the citizen science community in Europe through capacity building and awareness raising activities, such as the creation of a European Citizen Science Academy and the establishment of a network of 28 ECS Ambassadors. It builds upon the previous EU-funded actions such as the eu-citizen.science (Citizenscience.eu) project and Cos4Cloud and on the enormous achievements in citizen science over the past decade.

Goal

Widening and strengthening the European citizen science community through capacity building and awareness raising is the main goal of the European Citizen Science (ECS) project.

Vision

A globally connected, inclusive and strong citizen science community for societal change in Europe.

The European Citizen Science 5Cs mission

Creating and sharing of citizen science data and knowledge
Capacity building and training services
Common platform uniting diverse European actors
Contributing to European policy making
Changing today’s societal challenges into future opportunities through citizen science

What ECS does

1. Expanding the reach of citizen science by strengthening the community

2. Enhancing digital skills for FAIR and open science communities

3. Further developing the eu-citizen.science (Citizenscience.eu) platform through co-design

4. Developing the ECS academy with free training to increase the capacity to conduct citizen science

5. Boosting inclusion and diversity for mainstreaming citizen science

6. Advocating for citizen science and working on policy impacts

7. Investigating the impact of citizen science on research, society and economy

Work Packages

• WP1 | Project management and coordination

• WP2 | Strengthening links and collaboration

• WP3 | Enhancing digital skills for FAIR and open science communities

• WP4 | European citizen science academy

• WP5 | Boosting inclusion and diversity for mainstreaming citizen science

• WP6 | Communication and outreach for the global citizen science community

• WP7 | Policy impacts and recommendations

• WP8 | Impact Pathways Assessment

• WP9 | Ethics requirements

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