On the 16th of March 2021 and 15th of April, we held two vision-building workshops respectively titled ‘Open and Citizen Science in Higher Education: Co-Creating a Shared Vision’ and 'Shakers & Makers: key stakeholders in Open Science & Citizen Science'. The first workshop was designed to foster...
New workshop on Citizen Science: 17th of May 2021 from 14.00 to 15.30 pm (CET). Speaker: Mia Ridge - Digital Curator, British Library, member of LIBER Citizen Science Working Group More and more universities and libraries across Europe are engaging in Citizen Science activities. Citizen Science is...
New workshop on Citizen Science: 20th of May 2021 from 14.00 to 15.30 pm (CET). Universities and libraries across Europe are increasingly engaging in Citizen Science activities. Citizen Science is a valuable way to establish connections between science and society, a way to focus scientific research...
Should science focus on issues of public importance/respond to public concerns? What are the benefits of citizen involvement in scientific research? What are the pitfalls? These and many more questions are frequently raised by those engaging or wishing to engage in Citizen Science (CS). This two-day...
On the 16th of March 2021, we held the first of our two-part vision-building workshop series titled ‘Open and Citizen Science in Higher Education: Co-Creating a Shared Vision’. The workshop was designed to inspire participants to think systematically, share their experiences, challenges, and jointly find...
2nd workshop scheduled on April 15th - 14.00 - 16.00 pm (CET) Speaker: Dr. Tiberius Ignat (Scientific Knowledge Services) Based on the knowledge and skills gaps identified during the 1st Vision Building workshop ('Citizen & Open Science in Higher Education: Co-creating a Shared Vision'), the aim of...
1st workshop scheduled on the 16th of March at 14.00 pm (CET) Citizen engagement in research projects has yielded major benefits across the world. It is a highly effective way to simultaneously engage in learning and knowledge making; scaling up one’s research by simply increasing the...
DigiEduHack is a yearly global event dedicated to solving digital education challenges, with simultaneous hackathons held around the world. On 12-13 November 2020, Aalborg University organised one such hackathon, named Hack The Great Online Pivot, or #HackThePivot for short. As an online event, participants joined...
Should science focus on issues of public importance and respond to public concerns? Can science validate the findings and scientific knowledge produced by citizens? What is the benefit of citizen involvement in scientific research and what pitfalls should one be aware of? How can citizen...
A hackathon for university students on various dimensions of citizen science was organised by Web2Learn for the INOS project in November 2020. The hackathon with the title “Put language learning to the service of a social purpose!” took place within DigiEduHack, which is a series...