EU-Citizen.Science was a 3-year Coordination and Support Action project, aimed to build the Platform for Sharing, Initiating, and Learning Citizen Science in Europe.
To address such an ambitious objective, the project focused on communication, coordination, and support of activities related to citizen science. The consortium was composed of 14 beneficiary partners and 9 third parties across 13 European Member States and the United Kingdom, including a variety of stakeholders, who acted as multipliers and, through their participation in the EU-Citizen.Science project, built, strengthened and linked national and/or disciplinary networks on citizen science. The project leveraged the tremendous European potential in regard to capacities, skills, and know-how gained within the European projects and the varied stakeholder communities actively involved in citizen science. Through the release of the EU-Citizen.Science platform, the project developed a mutual learning space accessible to different stakeholders, ranging from interested citizens and media over scientific institutions up to politicians and donor organizations. As of December 2021, the platform showcased 163 resources, 205 projects, 51 training resources, 25 training modules, 8 linked platforms, 102 published blog posts and 14 community forums. In addition, it gathered a citizen science community of over 1.700 registered users and 175 institutions working on citizen science projects across Europe.
With the end of the project, ECSA – the European Citizen Science Association - has taken on the responsibility to keep the platform online and maintain it for at least five years to expand it further, adapt it to the growing needs of the community and provide further potential for citizen science in science, policy and society.
