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• Date of publication Oct 11, 2021 Category: Article

  Onto new horizons: insights from the WeObserve project to strengthen the awareness, acceptability and sustainability of Citizen Observatories in Europe

  by Gerid Hager , Margaret Gold , Uta Wehn , Raquel Ajates , Linda See , Mel Woods , Chrysovalantis Tsiakos , Joan Masó , Dilek Fraisl , Inian Moorthy , Dahlia Domian , Steffen Fritz

  WeObserve delivered the first European-wide Citizen Observatory (CO) knowledge platform to share best practices, to address challenges and to inform practitioners, policy makers and funders of COs. We present key insights from WeObserve activities into leveraging challenges to create interlinked solutions, connecting with international frameworks and groups, advancing the field through communities of practice and practitioner networks, and fostering an enabling environment for COs. We also discuss how the new Horizon Europe funding programme can help to further advance the CO concept, and vice versa, how COs can provide a suitable mechanism to support the ambitions of Horizon Europe.

  Volume 20 • Issue 06 • 2021 • Special Issue: Third International ECSA Conference, Trieste 2020 (Ecsa Conference 2020)

• Date of publication Apr 20, 2016 Category: Article

  Motivations, learning and creativity in online citizen science

  by Charlene Jennett , Laure Kloetzer , Daniel Schneider , Ioanna Iacovides , Anna Cox , Margaret Gold , Brian Fuchs , Alexandra Eveleigh , Kathleen Mathieu , Zoya Ajani , Yasmin Talsi

  Online citizen science projects have demonstrated their usefulness for research, however little is known about the potential benefits for volunteers. We conducted 39 interviews (28 volunteers, 11 researchers) to gain a greater understanding of volunteers' motivations, learning and creativity (MLC). In our MLC model we explain that participating and progressing in a project community provides volunteers with many indirect opportunities for learning and creativity. The more aspects that volunteers are involved in, the more likely they are to sustain their participation in the project. These results have implications for the design and management of online citizen science projects. It is important to provide users with tools to communicate in order to supporting social learning, community building and sharing.

  Volume 15 • Issue 03 • 2016 • Special Issue: Citizen Science, Part II, 2016 (PCST Stories / 2)

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  Collection: Volume 15 • Issue 01 • 2016 • Special Issue: Citizen Science, Part I, 2016 (PCST Stories / 1)