The #ECSA26 poster session started quietly, then the #citizenscience crowd arrived! Great to catch up with colleagues and hear about inspiring #citsci projects worldwide. Greetings from chilly Oulu!

The #PartArt4ow Sailing Lab will cross the Mediterranean in summer 2026, connecting artists, scientists & coastal communities to support ocean sustainability, ending in Badalona near Barcelona. Learn more: partart4ow.eu/sailing-lab #citizenscience #citsci #art #oceanscience

Great to be in Oulu for the @ecsa.ngo conference! Looking forward to sharing IMPETUS sessions, reconnecting with colleagues, and meeting new collaborators. Let us know if you are here too! #ECSA26 #citsci #CitizenScience

Boost your Horizon Europe funding skills! 🎓 Join @gefiont.bsky.social on 16 Apr 2026 for our #EUSEA training - Horizon Europe 101: All the basics to apply for European research and innovation funding eusea.info/eusea-traini... #EUFunding #Research

¿Trabajas en un Ayuntamiento, Diputación, Partido Político o gabinete de comunicación y quieres saber qué marcos narrativos climáticos pueden reforzar tu programa de incidencia? ▫️Descarga el material aquí: blablalab.eu/wp-content/u... @impetus4cs.bsky.social @hexagonallab.bsky.social

#citizenscience resource New #ECS guidance highlights how to strengthen openness and diversity in #CitizenScience, drawing on seven pilots and ten library events across Europe (2023–2025). Read more: zenodo.org/records/1832... #PublicEngagement #OpenScience #Inclusion #Diversity

#CitizenScience Reading Club AI can strengthen citizen science through better data and engagement, but responsible design is vital to protect transparency, inclusivity, and volunteer participation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #citsci #ResponsibleAI #Participation #OpenScience #AI

#CitizenScience resource The Western Balkans Info Hub is hosting a webinar that offers a valuable opportunity to engage with cutting-edge Horizon Europe research on democratic governance. ⏰ 9:30–12:30 📅 26 February 🔗 westernbalkans-infohub.eu/events/democ...

#citizenscience profile MƗẊɄFȦB is building an Urban Lab where migrants and local residents analyse socio-economic data together, turning lived experience into knowledge, dialogue and community action. impetus4cs.eu/mixufab/ #socialinclusion #communityscience

#citizenscience Spotlight Citizen scientists are creating 3D “digital twins” of Baltic Sea shipwrecks before warming waters destroy them. Led by the Maritime Archaeological Society of Finland, the project preserves shared underwater heritage for all. 2001convention-uch.ngo/projects/bal...

#citizenscience reading club Citizen sensing is reshaping risk governance. This book shows how community-led monitoring can fill data gaps, challenge distrust, and support more transparent and inclusive responses to environmental risks. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CitizenSensing

The February edition of the #CitizenScience Lighthouse newsletter from @eucitsciproject is out, bringing new updates and opportunities from across the #CitSci community 📰✨ us20.campaign-archive.com?u=43994d556f...

As #IMPETUS4CS wraps up its third accelerator. We are celebrating our final cohort, starting with SOS Heater in Portugal, tackling #EnergyPoverty with low-energy heating. impetus4cs.eu/sos-heater/ #CitizenScience #SustainableHeating

#Citizenscience Resource Empowering women in science: How the EU is driving change for gender equality in #research and #innovation. Learn more about how the European Commission promotes gender equality work here: rea.ec.europa.eu/news/empower... #Equality #womeninstem

#Citizenscience Spotlight Taxon Foundation and Save Komarnica are protecting Montenegro’s Komarnica River from a planned dam through citizen science surveys of endemic species. EU Prize 2025 honourable mention. taxonfoundation.com/project/koma... #riverscience #citsci #biodiversity

#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

#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...

👶 #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

#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

¿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

📊 #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...

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

#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

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...

#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

#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

🌍 #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

#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

#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

#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

#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...

#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...

Happy Holidays from the entire #IMPETUS team. See you all in 2026!

🎉 We’re entering the final phase of the 2025 #IMPETUS Accelerator! Celebrate inspiring #CitizenScience projects empowering communities & building #CircularCommunities & #FairSocieties 🌍 👉 impetus4cs.eu/accelerator-...

🌟 #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

#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...

#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

🌱 #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

🎁 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

#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

#Citizenscience reading club What if citizen science isn’t always empowering? Mayes shows how media frame #healthscience as helpful, corrective, or risky, shaping who is seen as credible. doi.org/10.1177/0162...

IMPETUS interviews... The Anti-Quake Risk Hunter Community in Istanbul is empowering neighbours to map risks & boost earthquake readiness. Featuring Yelda A. Gulkilik & Vincent Bouvard. impetus4cs.eu/impetus-inte... #citizenscience #disasterprepareness #earthqua

#citizenscience Resource @eusea.bsky.social training - #AI in Public Engagement: Protecting Sensitive #Data and Reducing #Bias by Johanna Barnbeck from Spread the Nerd Dec 17, 09:30-13:30 CET eusea.info/news/eusea-t...

#citizenscience spotlight Hollandse Luchten puts residents at the heart of #airquality research. Using simple sensors, communities investigate #pollution, build shared data, and work with experts + local authorities. hollandse-luchten.org #Environment

#Citizenscience Reading Club Persistent inequalities in citizen science: a 20-year study of Sweden’s Artportalen shows older men still dominate reporting, even after major ICT upgrades. Tech ≠ inclusion. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Equity #technology

#IMPETUSInterviews… #Citizenscience unveiling microscopic #biodiversity and #microplastic pollution 🌊 Watch out! Don’t Step on me! brings schools & underrepresented groups into marine research, exploring beach micro-life & microplastics. youtu.be/znOvECGnvao

#Citizenscience Resources Curators of information matter. A new guide from @senseaboutsci.bsky.social shows why librarians, editors & journalists are key to trustworthy research. senseaboutscience.org/wp-content/u... #ScienceCommunication

Sasha Woods from @earthwatcheurope.bsky.social reports on #CitizenScience projects around the world and argues that the active involvement of non-scientists in the scientific research process is a powerful tool in the efforts to combat environmental injustice #PeoplePower #Environment #Biodiversity

We are at the II Congrés de ciència ciutadana. Paving the way! #citizenscience @irbio-ub.bsky.social @biologiaub.bsky.social #InvAdapt

🌿#CitizenScience Spotlight INPN Espèces is a free French app that helps identify local species via photo + GPS. Expert-validated observations feed national & global databases—and have even revealed new species. www.mnhn.fr/en/inpn-spec... #biodiversity #conservation