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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)
[email protected] @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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15
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ECSA Geography, May 2016
73%
12%
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
2016, Graz
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UNIVERSUM® BREMEN
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FIRST IDEAS
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mobility
cultures
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body modification
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living room
internet
baths
GRO UPS
2 BIGGEST SUCCESSES
1. MOST VOLUNTEERS WERE GLAD ABOUT THE PROCESS
2 BIGGEST SUCCESSES
2. AS EXHIBIT MAKERS WE HAD A BASIS TO WORK WITH
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2 BIGGEST CHALLENGES
1. VARIATION IN THE GROUPS
VARIA TION
2 BIGGEST CHALLENGES
2. FOCUSSING DURING PROCESS
PRO CESS time
first idea
co-creation main phase
building planing
possibilities
Widen ing up
Narr owing down
EVALU ATE
time
Widen ing up
Narr owing down
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?
• …