OneAquaHealth IEEE Global Hackathon

Join the OneAquaHealth IEEE Global Hackathon 2026 ! A worldwide call to innovators, creators, and problem‑solvers - the IEEE and OneAquaHealth project invite participants from across the globe to co‑create breakthrough solutions for healthier urban freshwater ecosystems. This global hackathon unites AI enthusiasts, environmental thinkers, designers, developers, researchers, and citizen‑science champions to transform real environmental and community data into tools that protect biodiversity, strengthen resilience, and improve human wellbeing. Whether you’re passionate about AI for good, urban water health, biodiversity, climate resilience, or digital innovation, this is your moment to make an impact on a global stage. Build. Collaborate. Innovate - with the world watching. Be part of a global movement shaping smarter, healthier, more sustainable cities. To register for the hackathon, visit: https://oneaquahealth-ieee-hackathon.devpost.com/rules ***Coming Up Next on June 12, 2026: Session 1 - Introducing the OneAquaHealth Project*** Explore the mission, technical tracks, and innovation opportunities behind the IEEE OneAquaHealth Global Hackathon. To register for the webinar, visit: https://www.oneaquahealth.eu/introducing-oneaquahealth-project/

#TranskriBUWmaraton

#TranskriBUWmaraton is an event from 3 to 30 April 2023 as part of the Citizen Science Month celebrations. All interested readers and supporters of University of Warsaw Library will have the opportunity to cooperate in discovering, reading and transcribing historical handwritten documents, within a dedicated group on the FB profile of the University of Warsaw Library. This time we invited our colleagues from faculty libraries to cooperate. Especially for this occasion they chose interesting, rare and often surprising materials. Among them there are marginalia of one of the most eccentric Polish artists, handwritten maps, certificates labeling unique geological specimens and descriptions of plants from the so-called Hundred-year-old Herbarium. Together, we will try to unravel one of the unexplained mysteries of the Second World War, hidden in an encrypted and unread document from the collection of the Manuscripts Department of the University of Warsaw Library. And this is just a small part of what awaits you this year! We invite the entire academic community and all interested parties - both amateurs and specialists in their fields - to help in making historical sources more accessible and useful. As part of the project, for four weeks in April, we will be posting scans of selected handwritten documents on the TranskriBUW Facebook group. The task consist in reading and rewriting the text of the documents as precisely as possible and publishing the prepared transcripts in the comments section. The correctness of all prepared transcripts will be verified by University of Warsaw Library employees, who will further decide to link them to the scans of manuscripts placed in the Crispa. Digital Library of the University of Warsaw (https://crispa.uw.edu.pl/). Transcriptions will improve the readability as well as facilitate search and access to these handwritten documents. Everyone will be able to use them freely. The language of the event is Polish.

Zürcher Familiengeschichte – Den «Keller-Escher» transkribieren

Transkribieren Sie mit uns ein genealogisches Grundlagenwerk Wer sich in Zürich auf die Spuren der alten Bürgergeschlechter begibt, lernt bald die sieben grossformatigen Bände von Carl Keller-Eschers «Promptuarium genealogicum» kennen: Der Familienforscher hat darin die Stammbäume und Abstammungslinien von über 250 Altzürcher Familien von Aberli bis Zoller akribisch erforscht und handschriftlich aufgezeichnet. Wir haben die Bände nun digitalisiert und auf e-manuscripta veröffentlicht. Wir möchten den Text mit Ihrer Hilfe im Transkriptionstool von e-manuscripta transkribieren und online für alle zur Verfügung stellen. Bringen Sie mit uns die Stammbäume von Stadtzürcher Geschlechtern wie den Bosshard, Erni, Füssli, Keller, Pestalozzi oder Stucki ins Internet!

Identidades Comunes: II National Meeting of Citizen Science Social Sciences and Humanities in Zaragoza (Spain)

"Identidades Comunes" is a space for cooperation and co-creation between project managers, researchers and participants in Citizen Science, social sciences and humanities projects. The national meeting to be held in Zaragoza on 20 September. Researchers, managers of Citizen Science projects, participants or members of associations working to generate knowledge in the field of social sciences and humanities, you are invited to participate with your initiative in this meeting. There are two options: one is present the project you are involved in through a 6-minute face-to-face talk. Up to 12 projects from all over the country will be presented and other is present your Citizen Science initiative in the form of a poster. There will be two panels discussion: The Gestation of Bottom - Up projects and Heritage digitalisation through Citizen Science The day will be completed with co-creation and prototyping project workshops.

The role of photographic heritage in empowering communities participation in cultural heritage

This event is organized by Photoconsortium in cooperation with the University of Pisa and will be hosted at the Museum of Graphics in Pisa (Italy). The event will take the form of a 1-day conference with leading speakers from the CitizenHeritage consortium partners and other experts in digital cultural heritage, in Social Sciences and Humanities research and in the use of participatory approaches in a cultural and/or educational context. The main aim of the event will be to offer insights about successful stories of citizen participation in Cultural Heritage Institutions and Higher Education Institutions. In addition to the conference programme, a digitization desk will be organized, inviting participants to share heritage photos from their family albums, which will be digitized on the spot by a professional photographer. The stories associated with the image(s) will be collected and converted in appropriate metadata to accompany the digital objects. The collected records will be aggregated by Photoconsortium and offered to Europeana for publication.

Citizen Science goes Europe!

Citizen Science-Projekte und -Initiativen bereichern zunehmend die europäische Landschaft - sowohl auf nationaler als auch auf europäischer Ebene. Doch welche Strukturen und EU-Projekte gibt es, die als Impulsgeber*in fungieren? Was genau machen diese Initiativen und welche Angebote haben sie bereits für nationale, regionale und lokale Citizen Science Projekte? In dieser digitalen Mittagspause stellen wir euch ECSA, die European Citizen Science Association, sowie zwei EU-Projekte, EU-Citizen.Science und CS Track, mit ihren Aktivitäten und Veranstaltungen in drei kurzen Impulsvorträgen vor. Die digitale Mittagspause findet über Zoom statt. Bitte registriert euch, um den Link zum Zoom-Raum zu erhalten und an der Veranstaltung teilzunehmen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!

Citizen Science for the Oceans: From observation to information - towards digital twins of the ocean

In this webinar you will learn about citizen science activities related to the oceans. We will use the case of jelly fish as an example, start with the observations done by citizens using mobile apps. Then you learn how the data can be integrated in systems, including the use of standards making the data, in this case biological data, interoperable. You will also learn how to approach making the apps themselves. As NextGEOSS already has citizen science data catalogued on the data hub, you will now learn how we will expand this with the help from among others Earthwatch through their contribution to the ILIAD project. This webinar aims to reach Earth observation professionals and students, Citizen science public and private organisations, App makers, ocean advocates, marine environmentalist, oceanographers, ecologists.

Call for abstracts Open Track on PANDEMIC AND STS - 8th STS Conference

We warmly encourage you to send your abstracts for the following track: How to Protect Communities from Sars CoV-2 through Co-production of Health and the Design of Commons-Based Ecosystems by Adopting Distributed Ledger Technologies? Convenors: Guido Boella, Vincenzo Giorgino, Valeria Poli, Sowelu Avanzo. Please, see the complete call for the submission guidelines below, or consult the complete list of tracks. The 8th STS Italia Conference will be hosted by the University of Trieste, Italy, June 17 through 19, 2021, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies. It is our pleasure to announce that the calls for abstract are now open until December 18th, 2020. The conference will be an opportunity to present empirical and theoretical work from a variety of disciplines: sociology, anthropology, design, economics, history, law, philosophy, psychology and semiotics. The focal theme of the 8th STS Italia Conference will be "Dis/Entangling Technoscience: Vulnerability, Responsibility and Justice”. This broad theme refers to the complex and ambivalent role of technoscience and innovation in constituting societies – making possibilities flourish, but also creating new vulnerabilities. The conference will include 28 tracks, which are clustered into five thematic streams. The tracks focus on several topics, including: biomedicine, digital platforms and media, work and organizations, expertise and public policy, ethics of technology and innovation, and governance of science and technology at large. Abstracts (written in English, or in Italian in case of tracks in two language) should be submitted by December, 18 to the conference email address (stsitaliaconf@gmail.com) and to the emails of convenors' selected track. Track Convenor(s) will be responsible for reviewing, accepting/rejecting and organising submissions into their track. THEMATIC STREAMS · Biomedicine, bodies and technoscience; · Platforms, digital technologies and media environments; · Rethinking science, technology and innovation: emerging challenges; · Including, excluding and connecting through / within technoscience; · Governing and reshuffling technoscience and innovation processes; · Open Track: Science and Technology Studies in Post-socialist countries/in Central and Eastern European countries; · Open Track on PANDEMIC AND STS: How to Protect Communities from Sars CoV-2 through Co-production of Health and the Design of Commons-Based Ecosystems by Adopting Distributed Ledger Technologies?

Forum Citizen Science

„Vertrauen, Wirkung, Wandel: Citizen Science als Antrieb von Veränderung?” - so lautet das Motto des digitalen Forum Citizen Science vom 6. bis 8. Mai 2021 in Kooperation mit der Technischen Universität Berlin. Citizen Science ist (nicht nur) in Deutschland den Kinderschuhen entwachsen und wir möchten das Forum Citizen Science 2021 als Denk- und Reflexionsraum anbieten, um über Wirkungen von Citizen Science als Antrieb von Veränderung zu diskutieren: Setzt Citizen Science das Potenzial um, Vertrauen zwischen Wissensschaffenden mit unterschiedlicher Expertise aufzubauen? Welche Wirkung hat Citizen Science in den letzten Jahren in Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft? Wie lässt sich diese Wirkung überhaupt erfassen? Welchen Wandel kann Citizen Science herbeiführen? Wo gibt es neue Felder für Citizen Science und wo ist der Forschungsansatz bereits gut etabliert? Bei etwaigen Fragen zur Konferenz stehen wir unter info[at]buergerschaffenwissen.de gerne zur Verfügung.

WissKon21

WissKon21 – der NaWik-Konferenz für kommunizierende Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler. Die diesjährige WissKon findet rein digital am 06. und 07. Mai 2021 jeweils vormittags statt. Hier dreht sich alles um Forschende und ihre Dialoge mit der Öffentlichkeit und Medien, einschließlich Citizen Science. Mit der WissKon bietet das NaWik jährlich eine Plattform für einen offenen und kreativen Austausch.

Exklusiv - Inklusiv!

Die aktuell 160 Projekte auf der Plattform buergerschaffenwissen repräsentieren eine enorme Vielfalt an Themen, Forschungsfragen, Herangehensweisen. Doch wie vielfältig sind die Menschen in den Projekten, deren unterschiedliche Perspektiven, individuelle Hintergründe und Erfahrungswelten? Sind wir offen und divers? Oder weisen wir versehentlich einzelnen Personen oder sogar ganzen Gruppen nur bestimmte Rollen zu? Oder grenzen wir sogar aus? In der Digitalen Mittagspause wird die Psychologin Dr. Ines Thronicker (UFZ Leipzig) darüber berichten, wie spannend und wie lohnend es ist, die Welt der Diversität zu erkunden – in unserer Kommunikation, in unseren Strukturen und in unserem Verhalten.

Citizen Science in the Classroom: How Real Research is a Mechanism for Increasing Diversity in STEM

Teachers will get an introduction to citizen science, access resources to find projects that fit their curricula and go through an exercise to help integrate these projects into their classroom. Teachers will also leave with a digital toolkit that will enable them to take the lessons learned and apply them to their learning objectives in their classroom.