EU-Citizen.Science invited representatives from ministries across Europe and at the regional and local levels to engage in a discussion about citizen science and its benefits for policy making. The main aim of this event was to develop collaborations among policy makers with citizen science interests. This event was held as a satellite event of the European Research and Innovation Days on 22 June 2021.

Objectives of the event
- Explore the current state of citizen science in Europe to enhance synergies across borders.
- Open discussions by presenting good practices and success stories about citizen science operating at different levels, highlighting the barriers that affect the development of citizen science and providing solutions to overcome them to produce a powerful policy decision making tool.
- Foster collaborations among different countries to promote citizen science, establishing common paths.

The event lasted 1.5 hour. It was made up of four blocks, each dedicated to a citizen science topic. Each block began with a presentation given by an invited speaker (5'), followed by an open discussion for sharing different experiences from representatives of Ministries of European Member States and the participants in the event (15').

- Block 1 (05:26): Current state of citizen science across Europe introduced by Sven Schade, Scientific Policy Officer, Joint Research Center, European Commission (5’), followed by a discussion (15’)
- Block 2 (29:01): Promoting citizen science through the launch of national plans for funding citizen science projects introduced by Carmen Castresana, General Director of Research Planning, Spanish Ministry of Science and innovation (5’), followed by a discussion (15’)
- Block 3 (55:47): Overcoming the barriers to citizen science introduced by José Paulo Esperança, Vice-President of the Foundation for Science and Technology, Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology and Higher Education (5’), followed by a discussion (15’)
- Block 4 (1:15:02): Science for the people, by the people – policy instruments to anchor citizen science in research and society introduced by Anne Overbeck, Policy Officer for Citizen Science, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (5’), followed by a discussion (15’)

You can download all presentations via the links below:
- Block 1: [ Ссылка ]
- Block 2: [ Ссылка ]
- Block 3: [ Ссылка ]
- Block 4: [ Ссылка ]

Organizers

The EU-Citizen.Science project and FECYT/Ibercivis with the support of
The European Commission
The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
The Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology and Higher Education
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Moderators

EU-Citizen.Science Project Coordinator
FECYT
Ibercivis
Stickydot

Organization Team

Antonella Radicchi (MfN)
Silke Voigt-Heucke (MfN)
Francisco Sanz (Ibercivis)
Daniel Lisbona (Ibercivis)
Maite Pelacho (Ibercivis)
Pablo Camacho (FECYT)
Maria Inês Vicente (Município de Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo (P), Leiden University (NL)
Lucie Steigleder (Ecsite)
Claudia Fabó Cartas (ECSA)
Andrea Troncoso (ECSA)
with the support of the EU-Citizen.Science Consortium

Video edited by Alicia Moreno Muñoz, student assistant at ECSA

To get more information on the event you can visit [ Ссылка ]
You can see and download a policy brief prepared by the project for the event at this link: [ Ссылка ]

The information, documentation and figures in this recording do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission but only those of the authors. The European Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.

EU-Citizen.Science has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 824580.

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