The 2024 Citizen Science Initiatives, CSIs
Schools Count!
Elke Franchois
Sustaining Grant
Topic: Mobility
Mentor: Yaela Golumbic
Schools Count! includes the child perspective in an inclusive and participatory approach to tackle sustainable mobility challenges in the City of Genk. Through citizen science and educational packages mobility experiments are deployed in the primary schools’ neighbourhood. The purpose is to facilitate the transformation of the child perspective into practical measures and strengthen the permanent implementation of sustainable mobility solutions in a school environment.
The Museum of Food Waste
Cristina Nava
Sustaining Grant
Topic: Food
Mentor: Alexandra Albert
What interventions can be co-created to prevent / minimise food waste in school canteens, recognising the importance of behaviour change in school students?
URBAN 500
Milena Ivkovic
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Mobility
Mentor: Carolina Dopico González
What do citizens experience when they walk 500 steps in their neighbourhood, and what changes would they make? Urban 500 project creates an experimental, open citizen science digital database on walkability conditions to transform car-dominated neighbourhoods and regenerate public spaces.
EcoVoce - Speak up!
Lucrina Stefanescu
Sustaing Grant
Topic: Waste
Mentor: Jacqueline Goldin
The EcoVoce project monitors environmental issues in Romania's Aries River basin, nestled in the Apuseni Mountains. Developed in collaboration with locals, the EcoVoce mobile app amplifies citizens' voices, empowering community action. Its name, meaning 'voice' in Romanian, underscores its goal: giving citizens a platform to address and resolve local societal challenges.
Scoil-Aer: Citizen Science for Clean Air Routes to School
Ruaraidh Dobson
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Carolina Dopico González
Scoil-Aer is a citizen science project in Waterford, Ireland, that empowers young people to co-design and validate clean air walking, wheeling, and cycling routes around their schools. Through this project, students become active participants in improving air quality, reducing their exposure to pollution, and promoting sustainable travel habits in their communities.
Oeiras Experimenta: climate-smart crops for sustainable food production
Elisabete Brigadeiro
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Food
Mentor: Yaela Golumbic
Oeiras Experimenta Living Lab in Oeiras Municipality aims, through synergies between citizen scientists and ITQB NOVA researchers, to identify alternative climate-resilient crops for a more fair and sustainable food production, raising awareness on food security and climate change and restoring the historical agroecosystem of “Quinta de Cima do Marques de Pombal” in Oeiras.
We Are Students Tackling Environmental WASTE
Marta Gil Martinez
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Waste
Mentor: Ilídio André Costa
We're a group of researchers who are really concerned about the huge amount of waste that's being produced these days and the impact it's having on our beautiful planet. We want to make sure that the kids of today are aware of the importance of reducing waste and recycling it properly, because they'll be the leaders of tomorrow!
The School Food Transformation Project
Maria Neocleous Maliotou
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Food
Mentor: Patricia Barciela
RE-TASTY project aims to engage secondary school students in The Netherlands in re-thinking their school food system. By becoming citizen scientists themselves, they will use the Whole School Approach to research their school food system and propose actions to make it more sustainable and healthy.
Stop Bike Theft
Jordi Honey-Roses
Sustaining Grant
Topic: Mobility
Mentor: Inês Navalhas
Stop Bike Theft raises awareness and gathers data on bicycle theft in Barcelona. Through local cooperation, a campaign and events, citizens are encouraged to report theft on the BiciZen citizen science platform, thus providing valuable information to the cycling community and the researchers about the current extent of bicycle theft.
Cook-tivating Biodiversity
Alberto Jimenez
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Food
Mentor: Fermín Serrano
Cook-tivating Biodiversity is focused on empowering our elders by gathering traditional knowledge of local cultivated seeds in Almócita (Spain). The social garden will be the main place were citizen scientists will cultivate and create an opened and shareable seed collection of wild and local varieties of plants to promote a more fair and sustainable food production.
Foodies
Diana Szanto
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Food
Mentor: Jacqueline Goldin
In Foodies young citizen scientists work to find out what is wrong with our treatment of food and what possibilities exist to make food production and consumption more sustainable and healthier. In 4 different parts of Hungary, five groups conduct research independently with qualitative methods, using participatory video for documentation.
UNIQUE. Universal Design Strategies for Equity in the Proximity City
Alba Ramírez Saiz
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Mobility
Mentor: Cristina Luís
The universal design measures in the new city models, such as the proximity city or the 15-minute city, have failed to listen to people with disability. This project aims to engage them in co-designing an update for the Proximity Flower, a participatory tool for proximity city actions.
Layered City
Lovro Koncar-Gamulin
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Mobility
Mentor: Patrícia Tiago
We are building a socially conscious framework that integrates subjective community knowledge with existing urban data to reveal, inform and overcome contemporary mobility challenges. Our innovative mobility dashboard transforms citizen observations into real-time insights and actionable results, visualizing key mobility factors as interactive heatmaps. This approach fosters an inclusive, citizen-centered perspective for improving urban mobility.
Beyond recycling of e-waste
Fiona Dear
Sustaining Grant
Topic: Waste
Mentor: Patrícia Tiago
We recycle thousands of working devices every week. But reusing them instead could reduce waste, lower emissions and save households money. We’re investigating what reuse options are currently available at household waste and recycling centres and campaigning for policies that can help us move beyond recycling.
ChargeConnect: Mapping the Path to Smarter EV Charging
Ruxandra Miuti
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Mobility
Mentor: Carolina Dopico González
ChargeConnect is a pioneering project that leverages citizen science to improve electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. By engaging EV owners and stakeholders, the project collects and analyses data on charging station usability and interoperability, informing industry and policymakers to enhance accessibility, promote standardisation, and support sustainable transportation solutions.
Vyakulani Africa - mapping the African food legacy in Belgium
Maureen Duru
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Food
Mentor: Cristina Luís
Vyakulani Africa project focuses on African food consumption in Belgium; the evolution of the African diaspora's foodways and its acceptance by the wider public.
SOLIVEO
Mehmet Aysan
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Food
Mentor: Fermín Serrano
The SOLIVEO project seeks to enhance sustainable olive oil production in Bozdoğan, Türkiye, by merging traditional practices with modern scientific techniques. This project aims to support economic development, environmental sustainability, and social empowerment by engaging local farmers and students as citizen scientists through comprehensive workshops and training sessions. Project outputs will be shared through digital platforms so that they can be accessed by large audiences.
Wild Harvest: Preserving Traditional Knowledge in Lesvos
Konstantinos Tsiompanos
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Food
Mentor: Jacqueline Goldin
The long relationship that islanders have with the local ecosystems is something that is going to decline, because of global trade and the new lifestyle that is followed. The project is focused on recording the knowledge about wild foraging in Lesvos Island, mainly from elderly people who have used nature in their cuisine and medicine.
Wellbeing Blitz
Maria Vicente
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Food
Mentor: Karen Soacha
The Wellbeing Blitz wants to provoke a transformation towards healthier and more just food environments through the creation of citizen-generated data that reflect people's food relations within their neighbourhoods and the availability of healthy options, as well as the neighbourhood dietary patterns and health status.
Challenge #2: Justice and Equity
Citizen science for accessible and affordable health screening
Nicholas Cauwenberghs
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Ilídio André Costa
Can citizens perform health checks as reliably as doctors? To find out, we will train citizens to perform standard health checks, determine the feasibility and accuracy of their measurements and gather their experiences to improve the training and screening. If successful, we may reach a large-scale, low-cost way of screening!
Nergal - an epidemiology citizen science game for people with visual impairments
Amber Griffiths
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Neal Reeves
A collaboration between a charity supporting people with visual impairments, a non-profit specialising in citizen science and participatory research, and epidemiology researchers, to co-design and build a sound-based version of a citizen science game to understand how social decisions change how diseases spread in communities.
Thermo-Staat
Judith Veenkamp
Sustaining Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Ilídio André Costa
As heatwaves intensify in the Netherlands, Thermo-Staat steps in with a new citizen science approach. Unlike traditional research, it empowers residents to co-create knowledge and drive real change. The project is conducted by a collaboration of residents, scientists and journalists. It enables citizen scientists to share sensor data, report on the impact of heat stress, and discuss ways to reduce its effects.
Map4Rec
Ekaterina Egorova
Sustaining Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Rachel Pateman
The project is the continuation of Map4Rec, where we introduced refugee youth from Ukraine temporarily residing in Twente (The Netherlands) to citizen science by engaging them in the active exploration and mapping of informal places for sports and recreation. This year, we will focus on urban green and blue areas, and will add an exciting component - a location-based game, that will engage our participants into a variety of scientific quests.
PAIR - Parkinson’s Intergenerational Care
Ariadna Laguna
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Patricia Barciela
PAIR is a co-created project with Parkinson’s patients and Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) researchers. An Intergenerational Service and Learning (SaL) pilot program with high-school students and Parkinson’s patients has been designed to provide data and analyze whether intergenerational care is effective to improve disease outcome and patients wellbeing. Project also focuses on the benefits and impacts youngsters will have towards positive attitudes, life behaviors, confidence, knowledge of Parkinson Disease, and competences in science and research.
Luna - the experiential landscape of a menstrual cycle
Barbi Seme
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Aleksandra Berditchevskaia
Project Luna explores the lived experiences of menstrual cycles using Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM). We engage citizen scientists to track their daily experiences via a mobile app. The aim is to better understand the experiential dynamics throughout the cycle, deepen self-knowledge, and advocate for supportive environments and policies.
SIREN (Saving Italian hydRological mEasuremeNts)
Paola Mazzoglio
Sustaining Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Bruna Gumiero
SIREN (Saving Italian hydRological mEasuremeNts) is a citizen science project about the recovery of historical series of daily flows of Italian rivers acquired during the 20th century. As citizen scientists actively participate in the digitization, their awareness of environmental change is raised, and the dataset is returned to the community.
Obstetric Coevolution
Irene Lapuente Aguilar
Sustaining Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Antonella Passani
Obstetric Coevolution (OBCOE) is a citizen science project looking to co-evolve obstetric practices to enhance the birthing experience by answering the question of how obstetric practices affect mothers’ mental health. We have run five co-creation workshops and a massive survey. Now we are working on the co-created proposals.
SCience For Inclusion
Nicole Salvatori
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Fermín Serrano
The SCI-FI (SCIence For Inclusion) project strives to cultivate a sustainable community focused on environmental protection and social inclusion. By adopting sustainable agricultural practices and leveraging digital transformation and precision agriculture technologies, it aims to minimize environmental impact while promoting inclusion of vulnerable citizens.
CARPINO CARpaneda for Participation, INclusion and Observation of biodiversity change
Gloria Marini
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Jane Prophet
In a strip of countryside between the outskirts of Vicenza (Veneto, Italy) and the industrial areas, the CARPINO project wants to involve the citizens in a 'scientific camp' to analyse biodiversity, an oral history school and art workshops to experience these places with new meanings and suggestions.
Heat WatchErs in ACTion
Mar Satorras
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Inês Navalhas
This project uses citizen science to understand and disseminate the urban impacts of climate change, particularly regarding indoor heat, and to foster inclusive resilience by engaging and empowering children and parents from vulnerable areas of the Barcelona metropolis.
Reach Out Right: Empowering Youth Mental Wellbeing
Micaela Santilli
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Stefanie Schuerz
The behavioral science project Reach Out Right provides insights into the dynamics behind mental health support-seeking of youth and connects various stakeholders to foster interdisciplinary cooperation. With professional stakeholders, citizen scientists in the Netherlands will build mental resilience.
New Model of Care for Endometriosis - Phase 2
Anne-Sophie Gresle
Sustaining Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Jane Prophet
The Patient Experience Observatory at Hospital Clinic Barcelona in collaboration with the Gynaecology Department is embarking on a citizen science initiative aimed at developing an innovative care model for women receiving treatment for endometriosis at the hospital.
Voice of the Cavaleiro
Jeremy Auerbach
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Louise Francis
VoCa aims to pilot a participatory data collection of the occupational and urban hazards facing delivery bicycle riders for increased workers’ rights and work protections, changes to urban built environment, and empower migrant, refugee, and marginalised communities.
Helping Parents Minds
Jana Volkert
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Fermín Serrano
A mentalization-based mobile game prototype for parents from socially disadvantaged backgrounds will be developed in a co-design process to help reduce parental stress. The game prototype aims to train the ability of parents to think about their children’s minds and strengthen their parent-child relationship. Parents from different backgrounds will be recruited from urban and surrounding areas around Ulm (Baden-Württemberg, Germany).
Living soils lab
Johanna Musch
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Patricia Barciela
The Living soils lab engages local communities in assessing urban soils health with a focus on desealed artificial ground and planted areas aiming to restore ecosystem services and enhance community health and climate resilience in Paris banlieues.
BUGS (Benefits of Urban Green Spaces)
Irina Spacova
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Ilídio André Costa
BUGS (Benefits of Urban Green Spaces) is a citizen science project on enhancing the health benefits of urban green spaces. Through a study with citizen participation, we want to understand how the microorganisms in urban parks can improve human health. Join us in transforming city parks into vibrant, healthy spaces accessible for all!
Using past to secure future: tackling small town brain drain through industrial heritage regeneration
Petr Witz
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Mobility
Mentor: Ilídio André Costa
Local secondary schools, activists and policy makers team up with Petr Witz of Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University and his small team to explore together root causes of brain drain and use old industrial heritage to give young people from disadvantaged towns a vocational perspective of the future.
BeeCode Berlin
Silvia Carvalho
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Sasha Woods
BeeCode explores Berlin's bee genetic diversity to promote sustainable beekeeping practices. We engage students, beekeepers, and gardeners to be part of the scientific process and our mobile lab makes DNA sequencing accessible, especially for disadvantaged students. The resulting data will support public discussions and policies, fostering community ties and educational opportunities.
XENOPIA
Isabel Farina
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Jacqueline Goldin
Xenopia is a research-design project aimed at prototyping a domestic hormones Beta Hcg test as a tool to address reproductive justice and the right to access abortion. With an inter-species perspective, we will develop a tool and participatory workshops as a political act of empowerment and a concrete response to reproductive justice.
Deep Time – Collective Intelligence for Nature Recovery
Brendon Wilkins
Sustaining Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Karen Soacha
Deep Time is a collaborative mapping platform helping communities and landowners prepare for the immense challenges posed by climate change impacts and Net Zero targets by mapping archaeology features from Earth Observation data.
Dear Green Place: Promoting wellbeing in young people with Our Outdoors
Sammy Mason
Sustaining Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Carolina Dopico González
Dear Green Place aims to engage more young people in the citizen science project Our Outdoors to contribute data, formulate ideas and create artworks to provide insights on developing green spaces that maximise wellbeing benefits. The project takes place in the area of Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland.
RIVER PRO. Enhancing river proactive conservation
Medea Ferrigno
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Jacqueline Goldin
The RIVER PRO project in Sicily's Simeto River Valley is designed to empower local communities through Citizen Science. By collecting data on water quality and river usage and fostering collaboration among citizens, businesses, and institutions, the project aims to promote a more collaborative management of the River, addressing climate challenges.
Caomhnú
Gesche Kindermann
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Jane Prophet
Caomhnú connects rural Irish citizen science participants and practitioners through stories of climate change and action. Through storytelling we aim to share local climate resilience movements more broadly and empower individuals and communities to identify themes and connections for greater impact.
3-30-300 ATHENS
Dagny Rewera
Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Louise Francis
In collaboration with Kypseli residents, the ‘3-30-300 ATHENS’ project assesses the area’s urban composition against the 3-30-300 rule. Through engagement and green interventions, it maps the green topology, identifies development needs, raises awareness, and empowers citizens to transform Athens into a green city.
Challenge #3: Citizen Science For and With Communities
EuroSense
Lucia Nass
Kickstarting Grant
Mentor: Carolina Dopico González
We are building the largest citizen science sensor network in Europe, enabled by a ground-breaking tool designed to capture the real-life experiences of diverse people. The purpose is to make democracy more inclusive and look for real solutions to complex problems.
Citizen social science for the benefit of the Deaf community
Katerina Zourou
Kickstarting Grant
Mentor: Stefanie Schuerz
Acting4DHH, is a project by the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) community of Thessaloniki, Greece, aiming to improve social wellbeing through citizen social science. The project envisages to foster community-driven inclusion and accessibility by strengthening DHH-Hearing collaboration as a means of awareness raising, advocacy and empowerment.
Antiquake Risk Hunter Community
Yelda Ademoğlu Gülkılık
Kickstarting Grant
Mentor: Stefanie Schuerz
The Antiquake project enhances community resilience to earthquakes through citizen science and engagement, empowering a neighbourhood to develop detailed and tailored risk maps and reduction plans. It promotes awareness, fosters stakeholder collaboration, and leverages local knowledge and resources to prepare for and respond effectively to the unavoidable Istanbul earthquake.
Impact Assessment
Impact assessment is a key aspect of ensuring progress, validating our methods and approaches, and proving evidence. Therefore, we are developing a scheme that will be shared here in a timely manner.
Check out the breakdown of the impact of our 2024 IMPETUS Accelerator call for Citizen Science Projects.
Accelerator Dashboard- 2024
Check out the breakdown of our 2024 IMPETUS Accelerator call for Citizen Science Projects.
