INCENTIVE project - Establishing Citizen Science Hubs in European Research Performing and Funding Organisations to drive institutional change and ground Responsible Research and Innovation in society

The Institutional Projects Office is implementing the EU-funded project INCENTIVE, which aims to pilot a Citizen Science Hub at the University. Within the framework of this project, several reports have been developed that may be of use to people interested in implementing citizen science projects:

Requirements and motivations of quadruple helix stakeholders for active engagement in the Citizen Science Hubs, Lead by White Research (July 2021)
Manual for Citizen Science Community Building, Lead by SDA Bocconi (March 2022)
Monitoring & Evaluation Framework, Lead by Q-PLAN International Advisors P.C. (March 2022)

In addition, it has created a digital platform on citizen science with several functionalities:

Community insider: An observatory of news, on-going activities and developments in Citizen Science and Public Engagement, that also presents perspectives and tendencies about the on-going public dialogue about topics of Citizen Science on X (former Twitter), with the aim of awareness raising.
Resource Library: An online library, available to all, to easily access resources on Citizen Sciences, which are useful and publicly available. The aim of this library is to promote the reuse of resources.

It has organised webinars about diverse topics related to citizen science, that can be useful for people interested in implementing citizen science projects:

Webinar: "Working with communities: how to incentivise and reward researchers & citizens", SDA Bocconi (March, 2023)
Webinar: "Citizen Science: courses and learning material", Citizen Science Competence Center Zurich (April, 2023)
Webinar: "Monitoring and evaluating the impact of Citizen Science Hubs", Q-PLAN, together with the EU-funded projects TIME4CS i MICS (May, 2023)
Webinar: "Dive into INCENTIVE Digital Toolkit", AUTh (May, 2023)
Webinar: "Opening research to society in Horizon Europe. How to set up citizen science projects?”, ECSA, together with the EU-funded projects TIME4CS i ECS (June, 2023)

Skarzauskiene, A., and Maciuliene, M., Wildevuur, S., van den Berg, M., Bakratsas, T., Psaltoglou, A., Stylianidis, E., Tavantzis, I., Karatzas, K. (2023). Developing citizen science ecosystem: critical factors for quadruple helix stakeholders engagement. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy © Emerald Publishing Limited 1750-6204. DOI 10.1108/JEC-08-2022-0116. Available here.

Skarzauskiene, A., and Maciuliene, M. (2023). Co-creating Computer Supported Collective Intelligence in Citizen Science Hubs. Intelligent Human Computer Interaction. 14th International Conference, IHCI 2022, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Revised Selected Papers. Available here.

Angelidou, M., Politis, C., Roma-Athanasiadou, E. and Premyanov, N. (2023). Methodology to design and set up a framework to monitor and evaluate a Citizen Science Hub’s performance and impact. Societal Impacts. Available here.

Other open access publications: Reports – Incentive Project (incentive-project.eu)

Webinars about citizen science: https://incentive-project.eu/incentive-webinars/

INCENTIVE project - Establishing Citizen Science Hubs in European Research Performing and Funding Organisations to drive institutional change and ground Responsible Research and Innovation in society

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