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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 Reading Club

This paper shows how #citsci data can strengthen biodiversity monitoring at scale, while also highlighting the inherent biases in these records and the methods needed to use them responsibly.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Conservation #Data
February 6, 2026 at 10:38 AM
#citizenscience resource

Citizen science lets anyone take part in research, from wildlife tracking to climate studies. This Revise Centre resource links citizen science and STEM learning:

informalscience.org/what-is-info...
February 5, 2026 at 1:02 PM
👶 #CitizenScience Spotlight:

Care PartIES involved parents as co-researchers in neonatal care, shifting focus to long-term child development and parental health in NICUs.

www.ifis.uzh.ch/en/Lehre-For...

#HealthResearch #ParticipatoryResearch #NeonatalCare #CommunityLed
February 4, 2026 at 4:04 PM
#CitizenScience Reading Club

This paper shows how co-designed citizen science can map Europe’s sourdough diversity, linking fermentation practices, culture, and health while generating rich microbiome data at scale.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#citsci #FoodSystems #Microbiome
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Reposted by IMPETUS4CS
¿Trabajas en educación y buscas nuevas formas de abordar el #cambioclimatico?

🟢Compartimos #ClimaHackers: misión narrativa para jóvenes que analizan relatos, detectan desinformación y crean contranarrativas: acortar.link/kCOmJe

@impetus4cs.bsky.social @hexagonallab.bsky.social #ObservatorioBBL
February 2, 2026 at 11:32 AM
📊 #Citizenscience resource - Using #AI for #EUfunding applications

🗓️ 5 Feb 2026 | 09:30–12:30 CET
🧠 Workshop with Eric Jensen on using tools like ChatGPT & Copilot to create persuasive, funder-aligned EU proposals (esp. Horizon Europe).

🔗 eusea.info/eusea-traini...
January 30, 2026 at 10:12 AM
A bittersweet moment for IMPETUS as our final Accelerator enters its last phase.

Over 7 months, we supported 48 #citizenscience projects!

Early impact insights now live: impetus4cs.eu/impetuss-imp...

#circularcommunities #fair #justsociety #IMPETUS4CS
January 28, 2026 at 9:57 AM
#CitizenScience Spotlight 🌊

“Watch out! Don’t Step on Me!” engages communities in the Basque Country to study microscopic marine life and tackle microplastics through inclusive STEAM citizen science.

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

#ocean #inclusion #pollution
January 27, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Reposted by IMPETUS4CS
Our new paper on #urban #sustainability argues that while cities are central to achieving #SustainableDevelopment, they struggle with incomplete or non-disaggregated data.

#CitizenScience could support 70% of urban indicators, yet it’s used in only 4% of cases: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A study led by IIASA with @un-habitat.bsky.social shows that citizen science could contribute to 70% of global urban sustainability indicators, but it is used in only 4% of cases.
Learn how citizen science could transform how cities track & achieve sustainability goals 👉 iiasa.ac.at/news/jan-202...
January 27, 2026 at 9:24 AM
#citizenscience resource

Build citizen science with real flexibility🧰

PYBOSSA is a free, open-source framework for crowdsourcing tasks like image classification, transcription & geocoding

pybossa.com

#Crowdsourcing #OpenScience #CitizenScienceTools
January 26, 2026 at 11:52 AM
#CitizenScience Reading Club

Explore how libraries are shaping citizen science. Using co-citation analysis, the paper maps key authors, journals, and themes, revealing a growing but still fragmented field

Read more: ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cj...

#citsci #Libraries #OpenScience #Bibliometrics
January 23, 2026 at 1:44 PM
🌍 #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
Reposted by IMPETUS4CS
#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.

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

#pregancy #womenshealth

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