@impetus4cs

We will co-create and find new funding schemes for boosting the impact and value of citizen sciences, and sustaining it in time. Funded by HorizonEurope.

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Joined July 2022
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🛠️ The IMPETUS Toolkit is here! A practical, field-tested resource for citizen science — built on 129 projects, real challenges, and hard-learnt lessons. Explore it now 👇 impetus4cs.eu/toolkit/ #citizenscience #impact #projectdesign #projectmanagement
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#CitizenScience Profile Rural villages are designing their own climate futures with PermaFuturos, a #permaculture-based citizen science project. #Citsci #ClimateResilience #CommunityScience impetus4cs.eu/permacommunity…
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#Citizenscience Resource CUSP launches the Science Diplomacy Hub: a free, impartial space for the community to connect, share resources and collaborate. Join: lnkd.in/e9Db3xDn #ScienceDiplomacy
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#CitizenScience Reading Club 62% of surveyed citizen science projects had no data management plan. Templates are built for experts, not volunteers. doi.org/10.5334/cstp.538 #datamanagement #citsci
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🤟 #citizenscience profile - Acting4DHH II Deaf & hearing citizens in 🇵🇱🇸🇰🇺🇦🇬🇷 co-created videos on inclusion. Accessible science is science for all! impetus4cs.eu/acting4dhh-ii/ #CitSci #IMPETUS #DHH
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#CitizenScience resource 🌱 Free online training on #ethics, sustainability & #environmentaljustice in citizen science. 28 Oct or 5 Nov, 13:00 CET. Register: lnkd.in/dtkK7D89 #citsci
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#CitizenScience Reading Club "Talking Metadata" (Thuermer et al., 2023) finds that citizen scientists often don't realise what location/device data they're sharing and shows how better project design can close that privacy gap. sites.units.it/etica/2023_2/… #Metadata #privacy
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#Citizenscience profile 🌸 UNIQUE makes disabled citizens co-designers of city planning — creating accessible & tactile-Braille tools tested with 60+ people, zero barriers found. impetus4cs.eu/unique-univers… #CitSci #IMPETUS
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🔧 How to build a relationship with your local MP — Repair Cafe Gosport's 3-stage approach to winning political support for repair. lnkd.in/e9jbMxgA #RepairCafe #CommunityRepair
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#citizenscience reading club "When Data Meets Citizens" (Thuermer et al., 2024) finds that EU smart-city data projects rarely deliver on promised citizen benefits - and proposes "data justice plans" as a fix. 📄 cambridge.org/core/journals/… #Citsci #data #policy #citizenengagement
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#Citizenscience Profile - ASFOs from the ground 🌱 In Italy's Fiastra Valley, citizen scientists map abandoned land & test soil to help form the region's first AsFo—pooling plots to fight erosion & rebuild community. 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/asfos-from-the… #CitSci #landmanagement
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🐗Last week, our group attended the 14th International Symposium on Wild Boar and Other Suids in Zagreb, Croatia. It was a great opportunity to present our work on wild boar diet, species interactions and improved monitoring methods.🐗🧬📷 @si_upr
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#Citizenscience Resource 🌱 @cropsCS : the Responsible Scaling Training Series for citizen science! Covering #governance, #ethics, #partnerships & #sustainability. Because scaling well matters more than scaling fast. 🔗crops-cs.eu/resources/traini… #citsci #training
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#citizenscience Reading club "Rethinking Impact Assessment in Citizen Science" (Kieslinger et al.) uses design thinking to unpack 5 key challenges: methodology, ethics, time, stakeholders, and planning. ap.pensoft.net/article/1255... #impact #research
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#citizenscience Profile - FoodWise How can everyday diaries fight food waste? 🍽️ 80 citizen scientists in Western Thessaloniki are logging what they buy & waste-turning kitchen choices into food-system evidence. #CitSci #IMPETUS #sustainability impetus4cs.eu/foodwise/
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#citizenscience Resource 🎙️New @ScienceUs_EuPodcast ep! FLOW turns citizens into field researchers monitoring Germany's freshwater streams, led by @UFZ_de & @iDiv_Leipzig. 🎧 lnkd.in/dMBAQQ8J #water #conservation
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📰 The latest ECSA newsletter is out! 📬 Read: mailchi.mp/b25507e239b5/ecsa… #CitizenScience #CitSci #OpenScience
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🏙️ City Layers: 500+ citizen scientists mapped Vienna's noise, safety & climate comfort — 2,000+ data points turning lived experience into urban planning data. 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/city-layers #CitSci
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Ars Electronica 2026: NEGOTIATING HUMANITY. Sept 9–13, Linz becomes a festival city across 40+ venues. Explore media art & tech. 🔗 ars.electronica.art/news/en/ #art #tech
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#CitizenScience Profile 🌱 Soil Sentinel trains Serbian farmers to sample their own soil, checked against lab data, to guide safe sludge reuse — cutting costs up to 50%. impetus4cs.eu/soil-sentinel/ #soilhealth #conservation
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#CitizenScience Reading Club New study: Redlands Coast Koala Watch had 370+ volunteers but most never reported a sighting. Co-design with the community found the fix: simpler apps, real feedback, and social connection. 🐨 doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70205
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