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PARTNERING UP FOR CITIZEN SCIENCE

ECSITE Pre-conference workshop 7 June 2016, Graz

This event is part of the H2020 project Doing-it-Together-Sciences (DITOs) More info at: http://togetherscience.eu/ This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 709443.

Getting to know each other

• Who are you?

• What experiences do you have with Citizen Science?

• What do you expect from this workshop?

Workshop aim - Toolkit

• Many ways for doing CS at your institution

• Many guidelines already (Shirk & Bonney, 2015)

• Suggestion: specific one for museums & science centers with focus on partnerships

TODAY

• 09:30-10:00 Hands-on session 1: DNA Barcoding, Christine Marizzi

• 10:00-12:30 Short presentations & discussion sessions, Pia Viviani

– Academic research and formal education institutions

– Open Innovation Communities (medialabs, fablabs, biolabs, DIY, hacker & maker)

• 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

– Citizen Science platforms and science communication

– Museums & Science Centers: experiences with CS

• 12:30-13:15 World Café: Quality aspects of CS, Dacha Atienza & Anne-Caroline Prévot

• 13:15-14:30 Lunch break

• 14:30-15:00 Hands-on session 2: Lost Ladybug, Amparo Leyman

• 15:00-17:00 Workshop “Toolbox – Partnering up for Citizen Science”, Carole Paleco

– Part 1: Report from world café

– Part 2: Assessing SWOTs of CS actor groups

• 16:00-16:30 Coffee break

– Part 3: What partnerships do we need for pioneering & quality CS?, Katrin Vohland

• 17:15-17:45 Summary in the plenary, next steps, wrap-up

HANDS-ON: DNA BARCODING Christine Marizzi

PRESENTATIONS & DISCUSSION Pia Viviani

ACADEMIC RESEARCH & FORMAL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Science and learning as cornerstones of Citizen Science

Amparo Leyman

Pino

Family Engagement

Institute

Your 2 biggest successes & your 2 biggest challenges?

Successes:

• Involving the community

• Spanish Immersion Schools

Challenges:

• No ladybugs to capture

• Make families to follow up and upload the photos

UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA Paulo Gama Mota

Who are you & your institution?

• Paulo Mota - University of Coimbra

• Science Museum University of Coimbra

• CIBIO – Res. Center Biodiversity and Genetics

What are your citizen science projects? On what co-operations are they based?

• Socientize – EU funded CS project-platform – U. Zaragosa (ES), U. Coimbra (PT), Zentrum Social Inovation

(AU), U. Campina Grande (BR), Tecnara (ES).

What are your citizen science projects? On what co-operations are they based?

What are your citizen science projects? On what co-operations are they based?

• CIBIO – Biodiversity: collaborative research and educational projects.

– Darwin sparrows – Cape Verde

– Lichens in the Northern style (Iberian Red list of Lichens)

– Serralves Bioblitz https://cibio.up.pt/citizen-science-darwin-sparrows

Your 2 biggest successes & your 2 biggest challenges?

• Engagement of large groups of citizens in real science projects.

• Extending CS to new groups

– Seniors

– Developing countries

SOCIENTIZE • 36 000 volunteers • > 20 scientific projects supported • 15 scientific papers; 2 PhD theses

Your 2 biggest successes & your 2 biggest challenges?

• Sustainability – Continuity of most projects is a major problem.

– How to assure their sustainability?

• Assessing data quality – Apply, test and make public assessment

procedures to assure the quality of the data collected under CS.

– If researchers are to be involved in the long term, appropriate assessment must be developed.

MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE BERLIN

Katrin Vohland

Who are you & your institution?

BBiodiversity Science-Policy Citizen Science

Interaction & Refelection

What are your citizen science projects? On what co-operations are they based?

CS Project /Activity Example Co-operation type

Faunistic, e.g. Red Lists

Orion „hosting“, cooperation

Urban biodiversity „Stadtnatur“ Co-production (Digital SC)

Data quality standards

EU BON, GBIF Co-production

Frog monitoring „Frog Health“ Co-production

Exchange Platform Bürger schaffen Wissen Punkt D E

Providing infrastructure

Anymals; Open Microscopy

Co-production; education

Your 2 biggest successes & your 2 biggest challenges?

• Success: Citizen Science gains ground – German Citizen Science Strategy

– ECSA 10 principles in ~ 20 languages • -> interest from science, policy, media increasing)

• Challenges: Discrepancies between expectations/options and resources – Place and caring in the museum

– time for communication (in ECSA)

OPEN INNOVATION COMMUNITIES

Participation, activism and self-organization as keys to inclusion and innovation

Partnering up for Citizen Science Fermin Serrano – Fundación Ibercivis (ES)

fermin@bifi.es @ferminserrano

Pre-conference workshop, ECSITE Annual Meeting 2016, Graz

Foundation dedicated to

citizen engagement in science Since 2012, Spanish national private non-profit foundation

Consortium involving key institutions (Spain, Portugal)

Member of ECSA. Running socientize.eu ciencia-ciudadana.es

Services to the community

Coordination/share resources/expertise

Hardware hosting servers/computing/storage/

backup/monitorization/support

Software/middleware porting/development/integration/

adaptation/multi platform

Outreach/dissemination media/recruitment/

empowerment/networks/

events/exhibitions/awards

Promotion/management Advisory/proposals/

sustainability/strategy/

theory/models/impacts/metrics

Research EU-Spanish

funded projects

10 years in a nutshell

2015 Open CitSci Labs

Socioeconomics.

S&T&Arts

2014 Crowdfunding.

Collective Intelligence

2013 Serious games

Crowdcrafting. Policy

2012 National institution

Crowdsourcing analysis

2011 Volunteer sensing

Virtual excursions

2010 Participatory experiments

Information dynamics

2009 BOINC multiserver

2008 BOINC Umbrella

project

2007 Volunteer computing

2006 Desktop Grid

Computing

Ibercivis Portugal (Ibergrid)

Socientize

+50.000 volunteers Focus on non-English speaking countries +50 Research experiments Physics, Biotechnology, Human Behaviour,

Mathematics, Environmental monitoring, Biodiversity, Social Sciences, Humanites&Arts

ICT, Social innovation, Sci&Arts

EDGI

IDGF

Global-Excursion

ODS. EGI

EDGeS

2016 Observatory

RRI, CS Quality

Upcoming: Odour Collect, Brot, Supernovae, Colectiva-mente, PrimeNumbers, TweetMood, etc.

Trusted co-operations

Society as infrastructure. Win-Win. Experiment.

Can citizen science tools change your approach to scientific questions?

Can we find new perspectives from the widest range of nature/scale of collaborators?

DIGITAL FABRICATION Laser cutter, 3D printers

Scanners, sewing machine

DIGITAL PROTOTYPING

PCB, oscilloscopes, Arduinos, work stations

WETLAB

Microscopes, BinoBular,

centrifuges, refrigerator

VISUALIZATION Spatial light modulator,

Optic laboratory, Spectroradiometer,

Telescope, ccd camera

SOUND&VIDEO Holosonic speakers,

Keyboards, micro surround,

Automultiscopic monitor,

HDR monitor, cinema camera

ROBOTICS Quadcopters, e-pucks

Roomba, legos

HPC - CLOUD 80TFLOPS, 288TB Open Stack, Cepth

COMPUTING LAB Parallelas, raspberry pi

SCK, kinect, tablets PiTFT, 50 computers

HUMAN SENSING

Brain Vision EGG, Enactive Torch

Open laboratories for innovation source: cesar.unizar.es

Open issues for discussions

How to change mindsets from explotation to exploration? This is for all of us.

How to differentiate scientific dissemination of public engagement? Research

process with added value (not just publications)

How to move forward from concrete things (such as laboratories, museums or

libraries) to uncertain concepts? Let’s meet in the Labstract, action!

Mash up or remix? Both: Start dialogue, reverberation, then hybrids

Governance of such places? Top-down and bottom-up

What is the role of companies and private investors? Either all or none

Citizen Science Infrastructure at the DNA Learning Center

Christine Marizzi, PhD DNA Barcoding Programs Manager

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ECSITE pre-conference workshop, 2016

Just as the unique pattern of bars in a universal product code (UPC) identifies each consumer product, a short “DNA barcode” (about 600 nucleotides in length) is a unique pattern of DNA sequence that can potentially identify each species.

DNA Barcoding Programs

DNA Barcoding Programs: Our collaborators

873 student scientists in 322 teams

First research experience for most

>30% underrepresented minorities

193 mentors from 146 schools in 5 NYC Boroughs

>5,800 DNA samples

>9,900 DNA sequences and > 2,6 Million Next Gen Sequencing reads

125 novel barcodes published on GenBank

Urban Barcode Project, 2012-16 Student DNA barcoding in New York City

Publications with student authors or contributions

The NYC Biome MAP

Photo credit Marta Molina Gomez and Ali Schachtschneider

Painting with bacteria on site at IDEAS CITY street festival. Photo credit

Bella Cohen

Bacteria Printing Workshop at Genspace. Photo credit Christine Marizzi

Nurit Bar-Shai

ASM Agar Art winner!

Nurit Bar-Shai, Genspace, and Christine Marizzi, DNALC at the Agar Art Gallery event, American Society of Microbiology headquarters, Washington DC. Photo credit: ASM

Featured in >130 media articles worldwide, including CNN, Proto Magazine and BBC The Forum podcast.

Challenges

• Space and funding- due to overwhelming response for both programs

• Evaluation

• Responsible communication about metabarcoding results

CITIZEN SCIENCE PLATFORMS & SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Knowledge brokers, match makers, amplifiers

MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE BERLIN, BÜRGER SCHAFFEN WISSEN

Katrin Vohland

Citizen Science platforms and science communication: knowledge brokers, match makers, amplifiers

Example: The German Citizen Science Platform

Bürger schaffen Wissen

Citizens create Knowledge

www.buergerschaffenwissen.de

Dr. Katrin Vohland, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN)

Does citizen science has an added value? Which and for whom? What are the barriers for citizen science? What projects are around? How to increase networking and visibility?

Dialogue fora and strategic process (GEWISS-project) (BürGEr schaffen WISSen - GEWISS)

Citizen Science online-Platform (www.buergerschaffenwissen.de)

Dialogue fora and strategic process

Florian Pappert 2014

UFZ 2014

Hwa Ja Götz 2014

Ralf Rebmann 2015

Dialogue fora and strategic process

Key learning points:

• The main discourse around (the definition of) citizen

science deals with the different ways of „co“

• Data quality does not have to be a problem

• An important bottleneck is time

Key challenges:

• Developing of approaches for meaningful mutual learning (innovation, opportunities for scientists,…)

• Developing the platform sustainably (including business model)

• Overcoming the dichotomy between citizen science and „excellence“

EUROPEAN CITIZEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, MFN BERLIN

Claudia Göbel

172 Members 27 Countries

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ECSA Geography, May 2016

73%

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9% 3% 2% 1%

Members' Sectors

Science

NGO

SME

Science Communication

Government

Education

53% 47%

Membership Types

Organizationalmembers

IndividualMembers

ECSA Strategy

• Promoting Sustainability through CS – Implementing EU-wide CS programs

– Linking CS to politics

• Building a Think Tank for Citizen Science – Sharing knowledge & skills

– Providing expertise & fostering excellence

– Linking to international CS community

• Developing Participatory Methods for Cooperation, Empowerment and Impact – Carrying out synthesis & research on CS

ECSA Working Groups

Best Practice & Capacity

Building

Policy, Strategy, Governance

& Partnerships

Communication & Events

Projects, Data,

Tools & Technology

54

Fundraising & Marketing

Education & Learning in CS

CS & Responsible Reseach and Innovation

10 Principles of CS

• Citizen science is a flexible concept which can be adapted and applied within diverse situations and disciplines.

• These statements set out some of the key principles which as a community we believe underlie good practice in citizen science.

• Developed by the ECSA working group ‘Sharing best practice and building capacity in citizen science’ with input from many ECSA members.

New Projects

ECSA

SUCCESSES

• Increasingly established & known

• Funding & outputs

CHALLENGES

• Defining & providing added value to CS practitioners by networking at European level

• Using the CS hype to establish substantial capacities

FOUNDATION SCIENCE ET CITÉ Pia Viviani

Who are you & your institution?

• Pia Viviani – biotechnology, scenography

– science communication (classical PR as well as dialogue)

– citizen science coordination in Switzerland

– deputy director foundation Science et Cité

• Foundation Science et Cité – dialogue between science and the public

– organizer of the swiss conference for science communication

– swiss citizen science coordination

What are your citizen science projects? On what co-operations are they based?

swiss CS coordination:

– swiss CS hub

– swiss CS network

– swiss CS website (go live: August 2016)

• schweiz-forscht.ch / tous-scientifiques.ch

– swiss policy paper for CS (planned)

– swiss CS price (planned)

What are your citizen science projects? On what co-operations are they based?

swiss CS coordination:

– swiss CS hub

– swiss CS network

– swiss CS website (go live: August 2016)

• schweiz-forscht.ch / tous-scientifiques.ch

– swiss policy paper for CS (planned)

– swiss CS price (planned)

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What are your citizen science projects? On what co-operations are they based?

swiss CS coordination:

– swiss CS hub

– swiss CS network

– swiss CS website (go live: August 2016)

• schweiz-forscht.ch / tous-scientifiques.ch

– swiss policy paper for CS (planned)

– swiss CS price (planned)

CS network

What are your citizen science projects? On what co-operations are they based?

swiss CS coordination:

– swiss CS hub

– swiss CS network 75 network members

– swiss CS website (go live: August 2016)

• schweiz-forscht.ch / tous-scientifiques.ch

– swiss policy paper for CS (planned)

– swiss CS price (planned)

universities

CS projects

education

federal offices

funders environ-mental activists

biohackers naturalists

What are your citizen science projects? On what co-operations are they based?

swiss CS coordination:

– swiss CS hub

– swiss CS network

– swiss CS website (go live: August 2016)

• schweiz-forscht.ch / tous-scientifiques.ch

– swiss policy paper for CS (planned)

– swiss CS price (planned)

CS network

What are your citizen science projects? On what co-operations are they based?

swiss CS coordination:

– swiss CS hub

– swiss CS network

– swiss CS website (go live: August 2016)

• schweiz-forscht.ch / tous-scientifiques.ch

– swiss policy paper for CS (planned)

– swiss CS price (planned)

Working group out of CS network

Your 2 biggest successes & your 2 biggest challenges?

SUCCESSES

• Partnering up with 3 big Swiss universities for closer collaboration

• Finding funders from science, culture and environment

CHALLENGES

• Partnering up with 3 big Swiss universities for closer collaboration…

• Explaining people outside the CS network that the network meetings are really mainly for meeting in person and exchange of best practices

MUSEUMS & SCIENCE CENTERS Experiences with CS

NATURALIS, LEIDEN Jeroen van der Brugge

Partnering up for Citizen Science Jeroen van der Brugge content developer education

projects & partners: Live Science

projects & partners: Evolution Megalab

projects & partners: Bee Radar

successes & challenges

successes

1. involvement scientists

2. appreciation public

challenges

3. subjects

4. citizen savvy

Nature lab on tour

projects & partners Live Science

projects & partners Live Science

UNIVERSUM SCIENCE CENTER, BREMEN

Tobias Wolff

Partnering up for Citizen Science Pre-conference workshop, ECSITE Annual Meeting

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2 BIGGEST SUCCESSES

1. MOST VOLUNTEERS WERE GLAD ABOUT THE PROCESS

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building planing

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Widen ing up

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exhibition open

evaluation

december 2016

report

WORLD CAFÉ: QUALITY ASPECTS OF CITIZEN SCIENCE

Dacha Atienza & Anne-Caroline Prévot

Quality aspects of CS - Experiences & good examples

(1) Science – Amparo Leyman, Paulo Gama Mota

(2) Participation – Fermin Serrano, Christine Marizzi

(3) Communication & networking – Katrin Vohland, Pia Viviani

(4) Education & learning – Jeroen van der Brugge, Tobias Wolff

(5) Open table – Dacha Atienza, Anne-Caroline Prévot

HANDS-ON: LOST LADYBUG Amparo Leyman

WORKSHOP: PARTNERING UP FOR CITIZEN SCIENCE TOOLBOX

Carole Paleco

Report from World Café

Quality aspects of Citizen Science

- Experiences & good examples

(1) Science

(2) Participation

(3) Communication & networking

(4) Education & learning

(5) Open table

Assessing SWOTs of CS actor groups

(1) Science / researchers

(2) Citizen groups / NGOs / bottom-up projects

(3) Educators / learning institutions

(4) Science communicators / media

(5) Public authorities / decision makers

(6) Industry / companies

What partnerships do we need for quality citizen science?

• Where are the challenges?

• How to fill the gaps?

• And with whom?

SUMMARY & NEXT STEPS Claudia Göbel

Next Steps

• Toolkit

• How to continue exchange within ECSITE

– Working Group on Citizen Science?

– Working with the Nature Group?

• …