Accelerator

SeaPaCS

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Water
Mentor: Karen Soacha

SeaPaCS - “Participatory Citizen Science against marine pollution” intends to raise awareness about the consequences of marine plastic pollution on local biodiversity and to trigger transformative local action for sustainability-oriented behaviours in the small coastal city of Anzio (Rome).

Reknotting marine biodiversity

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Water
Mentor: Yaela Golumbic

Coastal peripheries host overwhelming cultural heritage and pristine natural habitats, but they can be demographically and economically depressed and weakly monitored by marine ecologists. In some of these localities, local sailors are focal nodes of interpersonal networks, conduct recreational activities with tourists, run educational projects involving schools, and are enthusiastic promoters of ocean literacy

Citizen Observatory of Apuan Waters

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Water
Mentor: Savita Willmott

The project aims to assess the quality of water resources, including rivers, spring waters, thermal waters and underground waters in the Apuan Alps in Italy that are affected by marble quarry pollution, and demanding the protection of this water-related ecosystem. We plan to create a citizen science initiative to monitor water quality over five months in the Lucido and Frigido River basins: Lucido river basin is a little-studied water basin in the area, instead, the Frigido River basin is the most polluted.

Citizens for SDG 15.1

Topic: Soil
Mentor: Sasha Woods,

This project will provide establishment of the community and collection and processing of data which will contribute to the SDG 15, Target 15.1., with special attention to the indicator 15.1.2. - proportion of important sites for terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity that are covered by protected areas, by ecosystem type.

META+

Sustaining Grant
Topic: Water
Mentor: Louise Francis

Microfibers released from textiles are a major source of microplastic pollution in the Netherlands. Reducing these emissions can thus only be tackled through research integrated across disciplines. In this proposal, we build on META, a transdisciplinary collaboration launched in 2022 that integrates methods in synthetic microfiber sampling, Citizen Science, and environmental psychology.

Project Poseidon

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Seagrass
Mentor: Stefanie Schuerz

Project Poseidon brings NGOs, as well as researchers, refugees and locals together. Citizens will collect and monitor plastic pollution accumulating in the beach wrack of the Posidonia oceanica seagrass, the “lungs of the Mediterranean’’, for the critical ecosystem services it provides.

Posidonia gardeners

Sustaining Grant
Topic: Seagrass
Mentor: Ilídio André Costa

“Posidonia Gardeners” proposes a 1-month citizen science sailing campaign dedicated to Posidonia oceanica around the Mediterranean’s largest island – Sicily, to protect and restore the seagrass Posidonia oceanica, a keystone species of the Mediterranean sea. The goal of this campaign is to extend the citizen science efforts of Project Manaia (PM) in the region of Sicily by involving local entities into data collection as well as hands on replanting efforts on Posidonia oceanica to achieve a bigger impact and activate a larger community of professional (PS) and citizen scientists (CS).

Revealing Secrets

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Biodiversity
Mentor: Inês Navalhas

This pilot project kick-starts a national campaign called “BioDiscovery 2023 North Macedonia”, which enables young citizen scientists to play their part in raising public awareness and supporting policy advocacy on biodiversity issues in North Macedonia (MKD).

Recording Irish Otters

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Biodiversity
Mentor: Patrícia Tiago

Ireland is a stronghold for the Eurasian Otter in Europe. However, available data on otter populations and distribution within Ireland are on broad scale. We aim to improve the fidelity of data on Otter distribution in Ireland by giving Citizen Scientists the tools and skills to report on Otter signs (prints and spraint) in urban rivers and waterways.

Sicily's Indigenous CyberTrackers

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Biodiversity
Mentor: Bruna Gumiero

Sicily holds huge potential for rewilding actions. However, two essential factors are lacking: (1) a qualitative, up to date, open access database for wildlife populations and (2) ‘pro-Rewilding’culture practiced by the public, researchers and decision makers supporting rewilding in the long-term.

Science à la Pelle

Sustaining Grant
Topic: Soil
Mentor: Jacqueline Goldin

Raising public awareness to the risk of future pandemic due to antibiotic resistance has become a major objective of public health in recent years. This follows decades-long deficit in discovering new antibiotics due in part to lack of investment but mainly to saturation of current approaches. To help mitigate both obstacles, Science à la Pelle (SciPelle) will enable direct contributions from the public to discover new antibiotics.

See Science, Save Seashores

Sustaining Grant
Topic: Coasts
Mentor: Karen Soacha

The project aims to better understand and protect the waterfront habitats of the Baltic Sea through innovations to the citizen science approach: networking, interdisciplinarity and accessibility of research. It will provide citizen research data about mesoplastic and seaweed distribution on Polish coastal lines, followed by their incorporation in environmental studies, carried out by scientists in the Institute of Oceanology of Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot (IO PAN).

CRESCO Citizen rescuers for collections

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Biodiversity
Mentor: Gefion Thuermer

The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), want to engage a broad audience in the valorization of the entomology, ornithology and wood biology collections through using virtual crowdsourcing platforms and through physical Citizen Science (CS) investigation actions

From Sea to Street

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Biodiversity
Mentor: Carolina Dopico González

“From Sea to Street” is a citizen science initiative (CSI) aimed at addressing key challenges facing the ocean (marine ecosystem) today. The project answers the question of whether and how murals, a specific form of street art, can inspire people to take care of coastal and ecosystems and their sustainable use in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

A WIld Future for Orchids

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Biodiversity
Mentor: Stefanie Schuerz

The project aims to generate scientifically sound data on the abundance and distribution
of Maltese orchids while training and motivating volunteers to participate as citizen scientists, by building a cohort of veteran and new citizen scientists who are enthusiastic about continuing the vital monitoring work, establishing a core team of citizen scientists, creating an action group that will develop a management strategy and publish a first paper on the topic.

A CiTizen science approach for data acquisition on coastal erosION

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Coasts
Mentor: Patrícia Tiago

ACTION aims at experimenting a smart sensing technology for coastal erosion exploiting the support of multiple user groups, targeting in particular at high school students. The project exploits low-cost sensing devices, called Smart Pebbles, which can be used to study coastal erosion processes. These devices are basically real pebbles taken from cobble beaches, and provided with sensing features.

Equity in health for LGBTQIA+ people

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Joana Magalhaes

This project’s main goal is to contribute to improving the health status and equity of people belonging to sexual and/or gender minorities (LGBTQIA+), by assessing the knowledge and raising the awareness of health professionals working in primary health care in the Algarve Region, regarding health disparities of LGBTQIA+ people.

Obstetric coevolution

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Louise Francis

Obstetric coevolution works on the research question of how obstetric practices affect women’s mental health, including postpartum depression. The research consists of organizing co-creation workshops in Barcelona, with women and other stakeholders (partners, midwives, obstetricians, and perinatal psychologists, among others) and the use of other participatory tools, such as a cocreated survey

Healthcare space UX

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Isabelle Bonhoure

What is the user experience of patients in open spaces of urban healthcare institutions? The project aims to answer this research question by including vulnerable users (patients) as citizen scientists to collect data needed to evaluate and improve open space planning, management and maintenance. Citizen scientists will be able to measure their user experience of open spaces in healthcare institutions digitally with an app, or with the assistance from our team, should they need it.

MENtal Health and wellbeing Improvement during pregNAncy

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Christiane Grill

Pregnancy is a significant life stage linked to events that can affect mental health and wellbeing. The objective of the project is to carry out a citizen science initiative to investigate mental health status and wellbeing of pregnant women (PW) by including them as part of the research to understand in depth what women feel, care about, and need during pregnancy.

New model of care for endometriosis patient through citizen science

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Antonella Passani

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.

Every walk you Take

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Health
Mentor: Christiane Grill

The aim of “Every Walk You Take” (EWYT) is to empower the local inhabitants of Barcelona to experience an active and healthy aging process. A uHealth platform with personalized healthy routes according to the user geolocalization, preferences and with real-time information on air quality and climate, will be co-created and tested in a pilot study in a project managed by a stakeholder community

CER.TOSA - Community for EneRgy. TOrpignattara Sustainability Action

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Socio-economic inclusion
Mentor: Margarita Angelidou

CER.TOSA will contribute to the development of a sustainable and equitable energy community in Torpignattara, Rome, by focusing on the needs and aspirations of local communities. It will conduct a participatory analysis of socio-economic vulnerabilities in the neighbourhood of Torpignattara, using open and citizen science approaches.

Citizen’s Energy

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Socio-economic inclusion
Mentor: Yaela Golumbic

Our project is a contribution to the climate & social justice struggle to increase people’s resilience, influence public opinion through creative storytelling methods, and raise the awareness of policymakers by producing quantitative and qualitative data on the vulnerability of individuals and households regarding energy poverty and heat waves.

Collect to Connect

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Biodiversity
Mentor: Carolina Dopico

To achieve greater collective climate action and increase biodiversity in green spaces, at a neighbourhood level, we need to interconnect green initiatives, researchers, residents, and others that care for the protection of biodiversity in Knowle West, South Bristol. Through creative methods & tools we will engage and connect local green initiatives. Through experimentation and collective learning we will develop citizen science tools, practices & technologies, laying the foundations for a Citizen Observatory and more citizen science in the future.

Pollinating Athens

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Biodiversity
Mentor: Jacqueline Goldin

To achieve greater collective climate action and increase biodiversity in green spaces, at a neighbourhood level, we need to interconnect green initiatives, researchers, residents, and others that care for the protection of biodiversity in Knowle West, South Bristol. Through creative methods & tools we will engage and connect local green initiatives. Through experimentation and collective learning we will develop citizen science tools, practices & technologies, laying the foundations for a Citizen Observatory and more citizen science in the future.

CALOR - Climate Adaptation: Local knOwledge and Resilience

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Climate
Mentor: Alexandra Albert

Barcelona’s urban heat island effect exacerbates the intensity of heat waves, which are increasing due to global warming, and makes the city less livable, becoming a major health problem. The CALOR project aims to investigate the causes of the urban heat island effect through the principle of citizen science, empowering citizens to become agents of change by raising awareness through different tangible methods and different levels of analysis.

Citizen Scientist Monitoring of Local Road Traffic Interventions

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Mobility
Mentor: Cristina Luís

Our project’s objective is to explore how citizen science can effectively connect diverse groups with the Local Authorities, involving such stakeholders in transparent, impartial and collaborative data collection processes that communicate and identify concerns and solutions to deliver high-quality LTNs. Our case study area is Lambeth, South London.

Citizen Traffic Radar - CITRAD

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Mobility
Mentor: Isabelle Bonhoure

In order to make the traffic turnaround and its necessity more comprehensible for everyone, we, as an association that runs an open workshop, want to implement radar-based traffic monitoring carried out together with the citizens. The underlying research question thereby is: What is the character of traffic in terms of quantity, type and speed at different locations in the city of Cottbus? And which impacts it has on the life on the citizens at this place, and what we will be the benefits in the case of a reduction of the car traffic.

Towards inclusive urban mobility

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Mobility
Mentor: Cristina Luís

The project wants to identify, analyse and raise awareness about the barriers in public transport for people with disabilities in Toruń, engaging them and their community in citizen science activities. It aims to study accessibility gaps in the public transport in Toruń, to provide the city authorities with data, illustrating the levels of satisfaction of passengers with disabilities (PwD) from using public transport.

Accessible Kadıköy

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Accessibility
Mentor: Christiane Grill

Our project aims to enhance accessibility and inclusivity in Kadıköy through the development and integration of an app module within the existing Digital Kadıköy application. By leveraging citizen science methods and engaging the community, we strive to address the challenges faced by individuals with restricted mobility.

LBI Accessibility Audits

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Accessibility
Mentor: Margarita Angelidou

The LBI Accessibility Audit project is divided into two components. The first one is a public realm accessibility audit of Islington’s Mildmay ward, providing essential information on obstacles found on streets and pavements which would affect disabled people, taking a pan-disability perspective.

Communities Against Violence

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Gender
Mentor: Rachel Pateman

Sexual violence and harassment (SVH) is increasingly recognized as a societal challenge in Brussels. Researchers and policymakers have suggested educational approaches to generate awareness, challenge norms and improve the capacity of bystanders. This project proposes to address SVH in urban spaces, through a citizenled intervention, which will use a game-based approach.

Mapping for Recreation

Kickstarting Grant
Topic: Mobility
Mentor: Louise Francis

In this project, we will introduce newly arrived youths from Ukraine temporarily residing in refugee facilities in Twente (The Netherlands) to citizen science by engaging them in the active exploration and mapping of informal places for sports and recreation.

Margarita Angelidou

I'd love to help citizen science projects advancing sustainable urban development!

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Isabelle Bonhoure

Let's keep Citizen Science growing and targeting social issues, from the perspective of the people that share them!

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Ilídio André Costa

The science where it belongs

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Carolina Dopico Gonzales

Mentoring citizen science initiatives within the IMPETUS project, integrating science and artistic expression in participatory processes

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Louise Francis

Democratising the way in which science is done, with communities at the heart and socieltal challenges at the forefront

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Jacqueline Goldin

Passionate about citizen science - taking science right out of libraries and laboratories into life

Yaela Golumbic

Citizen science makes science more accessible and relevant to peoples' day-to-day lives

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Christiane Grill

Actively involving citizens in science increases the quality of research and brings science and society closer together

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Bruna Gumiero

One of my challenges in the CS projects I coordinate will be to make CS results count more in sustainable land management decisions

Cristina Luis

Dialogue, collaboration and engagement; three essential keywords in citizen science!

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Inès Navalhas

To know more about citizen science projects in Europe is a great opportunity. IMPETUS is the way!!

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Rachel Paterman

It is a way for everyone to understand the world around them.

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Karen Soacha

Collaborative efforts to expand citizen science are more than needed to address our challenging times. IMPETUS is a great way to do it!

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Stefànie Schuerz

We can only achieve profound transformative change through science if we build meaningful collaborations between science, policy and society.

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Patrícia Tiago

Citizen science empowers ordinary individuals to join forces, unleashing the collective power to drive meaningful change and scientific discovery.

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Savita Willmott

I've been involved in citizen science for over 15 years and I'm still just as excited about the opportunities for international collaboration and new thinking in the field.

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Sasha Woods

I'm excited to help make citizen-science projects more impactful!

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Alexandra Albert

Only through doing things together, via citizen science, can we tackle some of the biggest social issues we face today.

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Antonella Passani

Passionate about CS, provides support for assessing and maximizing positive impacts and increase its diversity of people, disciplines and topics.

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