European Citizen Science Association

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| headquarters = Natural History Museum, Berlin

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| leader_title = Executive Chair

| leader_name = Prof. Johannes Vogel, PhD

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| leader_name2 = Muki (Mordechai) Haklay

| leader_title3 = Executive Vice-Chair

| leader_name3 = Luigi Ceccaroni

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The European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) is a membership based networking organization for practitioners and researchers of citizen science in Europe. ECSA was founded in 2014 in Germany and is registered as a charitable and member-based professional organization.

History

ECSA was launched in 2013.

ECSA has a board of directors, elected by its members, and a collection of professional working groups that establish standards, identify best practices, help to focus research and technology, and explore the ethics of citizen science. In addition, it has an advisory board and a steering committee, which support the executive board.{{cite journal |title=Associations for Citizen Science: Regional Knowledge, Global Collaboration |journal=Citizen Science: Theory and Practice |volume=1 |issue=2 |last=Storksdieck |first=Martin |date=2016 |page=10 |quote=...a steering committee has supported the executive board since January 2015 with a range of important decisions, including the development of a strategic plan ...|doi=10.5334/cstp.55 |doi-access=free |hdl=11541.2/124417 |hdl-access=free }}

Activities

It has held general assemblies each year since 2014, at which ECSA members and working groups present their initiatives and discuss how the organization’s vision can be further developed.

The first biannual international ECSA conference was held in Berlin in May 2016.{{cite web| title=ECSA Conference 2020| url=https://www.ecsa-conference.eu|

access-date=8 August 2019}}

ECSA has initiated several strategic capacity-building programmes at the European and national scale, which have led to the development of outputs such as the Socientize Green and White Papers on Citizen Science in Europe and the Green paper Citizen Science Strategy 2020 for Germany.{{cite web |url=http://www.zsi.at/object/project/2340/attach/WhitePaper-Final-Print.pdf |title=White Paper on Citizen Science in Europe |last=Fermin |first=Serrano Sanz |date=2014 |website=zsi.at |access-date=8 May 2019 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.buergerschaffenwissen.de/sites/default/files/assets/dokumente/gewiss_cs_strategy_englisch_0.pdf |title=Greenpaper Citizen Science Strategy 2020 for Germany |last=Bonn |first=Aletta |date=2016 |website=buergerschaffenwissen.de |access-date=8 May 2019 }} The European White Paper provided the basis for several actions and policies related to public engagement in science directed by the European Commission, such as the "Science with and for Society" programme 2018-2020.{{cite web| title=Science with and for Society| date=11 November 2013| url=https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/science-and-society| access-date=8 August 2019}}

ECSA is an active consortium member in several projects funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020. These include:

Distributed Network for Odour Sensing, Empowerment and Sustainability (D-NOSES).{{cite web| title=D-NOSES| url=http://dnoses.eu| access-date=8 August 2019}}
Doing It Together Science (DITOs).{{cite web| title=Doing-it-Together Science| url=http://www.togetherscience.eu| access-date=8 August 2019}} (This project has now ended).
EU-Citizen.Science - Sharing, Initiating, and Learning Citizen Science in Europe.{{cite web| title=EU-Citizen.Science| url=http://eu-citizen.science| access-date=8 August 2019}}
LandSense - Urban Landscape Dynamics.{{cite web| title=LandSense| url=https://landsense.eu| access-date=8 August 2019}}
Panelfit - Participatory Approaches to a New Ethical and Legal Framework for ICT.{{cite web| title=Panelfit| url=https://www.panelfit.eu| access-date=8 August 2019}}
WeObserve - An Ecosystem of Citizen Observatories for Environmental Monitoring.{{cite web| title=WeObserve| url=https://www.weobserve.eu| access-date=8 August 2019}}
iTechExplorers - Collation & Sharing of Data Related to Affects of Technology on Circadian Rhythms.{{Cite web|url=https://ecsa.citizen-science.net/profile-individual_profile/1695|title=ECSA Member Individual {{!}} European Citizen Science Association (ECSA)|website=ecsa.citizen-science.net|access-date=2020-02-19}}{{Cite web|url=http://itechexplorers.com/|title=iTechExplorers – Citizen Science Project – A Citizen Science Project|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-02-19}}

The ECSA is also a member of the Citizen Science Global Partnership.[https://citizenscienceglobal.org/network.html Citizen Science Global Partnership website, Network, retrieved September 19, 2024]

= ECSA ten principles =

To complement the definition of citizen science, ECSA also developed Ten Principles of Citizen Science, which have been translated into numerous European languages and have been published as a chapter in the open access book Citizen Science - Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy.{{cite web |url=https://ecsa.citizen-science.net/sites/default/files/ecsa_ten_principles_of_citizen_science.pdf |title=Ten Principles of Citizen Science | date=2017 |website=theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org |access-date=8 May 2019 |quote=...Citizen science projects actively involve citizens in scientific endeavour that generates new knowledge or understanding...}}{{cite book |title=Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy | date=2018 |last=Hecker|first=Susanne |quote=...the European Citizen Science Association has also developed ...|doi = 10.14324/111.9781787352339| hdl=10398/44634f0b-4883-46c3-b896-20bf19b65e62 |isbn = 9781787352339| s2cid=240058543 |url = https://research.cbs.dk/en/publications/44634f0b-4883-46c3-b896-20bf19b65e62}}{{cite journal| title=How Empowering Is Citizen Science? Access, Credits, and Governance for the Crowd| author1=Shun-Ling Chen| journal=East Asian Science, Technology and Society| volume=13| issue=2| pages=215–234| date=1 June 2019| doi=10.1215/18752160-7497711| s2cid=181878425}}

References

External links

[https://ecsa.citizen-science.net/ European Citizen Science Association]

Category:Citizen science

Category:Scientific organizations based in Europe