King’s College London (KCL) is one of the top 10 UK universities, hosting over 30,000 students annually, and employing over 8,500 staff, who provide world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. King’s has most recently coordinated the ACTION project, upon which part of IMPETUS is modelled.
KCL is the technical and scientific lead, with responsibility for overall delivery of the project against our goals. KCL is also responsible for the open calls to recruit 125 citizen science projects.
Gefion Thuermer
Research Fellow at King’s College London, and scientific and technical lead and lead for WP1 in Impetus
Elena Simperl
Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London, and PI (primary investigator) for KCL in Impetus
Ars Electronica has sought out interlinkages and congruities, causes and effects on the nexus of art, technology, and society since its inception in 1970. The Festival as proving ground, the Prix as competition honoring excellence, the Center as a permanent setting for presentation & interaction, and the Futurelab and Ars Electronica Solutions as in-house R&D facilities extending their feelers throughout the realms of science and research, art and technology. Ars Electronica’s divisions inspire one another and put futuristic visions to the test in a unique, creative feedback loop.
Ars Electronica is the leading partner responsible for delivering the the European Union Prize for Citizen Science. The prize gives recognition to Citizen Science Initiatives for outstanding achievements, allowing them to continue and expand their work and showcase it to a wider audience.
Andrew Newman
Producer – European Platform for Digital Humanism
Veronika Liebl
Managing Director – Ars Electronica Festival-Prix-Exhibitions
Vanessa Hannesschläger
Ars Electronica Festival-Prix-Exhibitions
EUSEA is an international community of public engagement professionals, science festival and science event organizers. The association comprises about 120 members, including universities and scientific institutions, science festival organisations, science centres and museums, municipalities and NGOs. The network has developed from a knowledge-sharing platform for European science festivals to a collaborative community of public engagement professionals, developing and testing new formats of science communication, building relationships with researchers, policy-makers and stakeholders from scientific institutions, higher education institutions, municipalities and regions. EUSEA is the initiator of the European Science Engagement Platform, a resource of recommendations, best practices and innovative event formats for practitioners working in the field of science-society dialogues.
EUSEA is the leading partner responsible for Communications and Dissemination activities.
Annette Klinkert
Executive Director
Chris Styles
Project Officer
Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence Design works with methods that bring together diverse groups of people, with new sources of data and digital technologies to find solutions to society’s biggest problems. Their work focuses on developing tools and projects for the benefit of communities, and on helping institutions strengthen trust and collaboration with citizens. Nesta’s Collective Intelligence Design Playbook helped to define the field and is used by practitioners around the world.
In Impetus, Nesta leads the policy engagement activities with a focus on inclusion, improving data practices and localising the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and Green Deal targets. They will also develop training materials and design resources to help citizen science practitioners maximise their impact, which will be trialed with participants in the Accelerator Programme.
Peter Baeck
Director
Aleks Berditchevskaia
Principal Researcher
Meera Shah
Programme and Operations Manager
Joana Murta Rosa
Programme and Operations Manager
Alex Albert
Senior Researcher
Science for Change (SfC) is an innovative SME founded in 2019 with the aim of addressing social, environmental and health impacts through participatory strategies and of co-creation
The main focus of SfC is to address social challenges from citizen participation, working with all the parties involved, following the quadruple helix model, that is, involving citizens and associations, together with public authorities, the private sector, industries and SMEs, and the academic sector, for the co-design of solutions that improve society.
SfC is the leading partner responsible for the accelerator. Drawing on our extensive experience in bringing citizen science together with other stakeholders in the quadruple helix, we will offer a tailored, modern and inclusive programme of support, training and advice from expert practitioners, as well as co-design and engagement activities.
Rosa Arias
CEO & Founder
Diana Reinoso
Project Manager
Joana Magalhães
Senior Researcher
T6 Ecosystems srl, Italy, is a research and consulting SMEs with an interdisciplinary team devoted to applied research. We bring research and innovation results to society and maximise their positive impacts. Indeed, we see the integration of user-centred research within innovation and development projects as the missing link in making impact happen. In this framework, the main activities of T6 are: the co-design of innovation processes and socio-technical tools, socio-economic impact assessment of research and innovation initiatives; policy analysis; scientific communication and project dissemination.
T6 is the leading partner responsible for assessing the impact and supporting the exploitation of Impetus. We will help CSIs to map the scientific, social, political and economic benefits they develop and analyse them at an aggregated level. We will also facilitate the uptake of project results and sustainability of its actions.
Antonella Passani
Partner and Head of research
Andrea Ancona
Junior researcher
ZABALA INNOVATION CONSULTING, S.A. (Zabala Innovation: Research, Development, Innovation) (ZABALA) is a leading international consultancy firm in innovation strategy and R&D&I financing. Since 1986, it has been supporting its clients in their entrepreneurial drive through the search for financing and the management and promotion of innovation. Aware of the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to create new innovative business models that enable social progress; Zabala Innovation integrates the SDGs in the company, both in its own management, and in helping its clients integrate the SDGs in their strategic plans.
ZABALA is the leading partner responsible for the Coordination of the IMPETUS and the management of the contractual aspects of the open calls.
Sara San Martin
European R&D and Innovation Consultant – Coordination team member
María Anguiano
European R&D and Innovation Consultant – Coordinator
IMPETUS is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 101058677. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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