ECSA Headquarters Museum für Naturkunde Berlin Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Research

June 2016

Our Mission:

Connecting citizens and science

through fostering active participation

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Our Vision:

In 2020, citizens in Europe are valued and empowered as key actors in advancing

knowledge and innovation and thus supporting a sustainable development of

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ECSA Strategy

• Promoting Sustainability through CS

– Implementing EU-wide CS programs

– Linking CS to politics

• Building a Think Tank for Citizen Science

– Sharing knowledge & skills

– Providing expertise & fostering excellence

– Linking to international CS community

• Developing Participatory Methods for Cooperation, Empowerment and Impact

– Carrying out synthesis & research on CS 4

ECSA Working Groups

Best Practice & Capacity

Building

Policy, Strategy, Governance

& Partnerships

Communication & Events

Projects, Data,

Tools & Technology

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Fundraising & Marketing

Education & Learning in CS

CS & Responsible Reseach and Innovation

Available in 22 languages

Ten Principles of Citizen Science

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187 Members 28 Countries

Growing recognition of Citizen Science

• Linking citizens to policy via science i.e., Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) partners with Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Environment Agency, UK

• Developing strategic frameworks i.e., European Research Council (ERC) established in 2007 by European Commission for funding of scientific and technological research.

- Budget over €13 billion from 2014-2020 comes from Horizon2020

- ¾ projects involve Citizen Science

- Cutting-edge research of EU policy making include CS

EU policy makers support for Citizen Science

• Citizens’ Observatory ENV.2012.6.5-1 Developing community-based environmental monitoring and information systems using innovative and novel earth observation applications.

5 FT7 Projects: Citclops, CITI-SENSE, COBWEB, Omniscientis and WeSenseIt

- Development of highly innovative monitoring technologies - Citizens’ empowerment: co-participation in community decision-

making and cooperative planning - IMPACT: citizens influence the environmental governance

processes providing models for decision-makers and facilitating connections between environmental governance, global policy objectives and citizens’ needs.

• CAPS – Collective Awareness Projects European Commission’s initiative on Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation.

A total of 12 projects from call 1 started in 2013 and still running and 22 projects from call 2 started in January 2016.

- Cover many topics: Open Democracy, Open Policy Making, Environmental action (Citizen Science), Internet Science, Collaborative Economy and Open Data.

- Designing online platforms to create awareness of sustainability

problems and offer collaborative solutions based on networks of people, ideas and sensors, thus enabling new forms of social innovation.

- IMPACT: to achieve changes in lifestyle, production and consumption

patterns, and to set up more participatory democratic processes.

EU policy makers support for Citizen Science

• Science With And For Society (SWAFS) European Commission’s programme for addressing societal challenges tackled by Horizon 2020, building capacity and developing innovative ways of connecting science to society.

i.e., DITOs Doing It Together Science Horizon2020

- Allows all societal actors (researchers, citizens, policy makers, business, third sector organizations etc.) to work together during the research and innovation (R&I) process

- Inclusive approach to Research and Innovation known as

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)

- IMPACT: designing and implementing R&I policy that will engage society, increase access to scientific results, ensure gender equality, consider ethics and foster science education – RRI THEMES.

EU policy makers support for Citizen Science

ECSA activities in DITOs WP4

WP4 – Policy Engagement for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)

• Review on Citizen Science – Fact finding of current good practices and policy guidelines

• Structured analysis and elaboration of 4-page Policy Briefs – Develop guidelines for policy makers

• Policy engagement through direct engagement – European Stakeholder Roundtables 8th November 2016, Museum für

Naturkunde Berlin (Save the date!) – Pan European Policy Forum

Public involvement in policy

Discovery (define issues &

alternatives)

Education (about issue & alternatives)

Measurement of public opinion

Persuasion (desired

alternative)

Legitimization of the

decisions

Implementation

Walters, L. C., Aydelotte, J., & Miller, J. (2000). Putting more public in policy analysis. Public Administration Review, 60(4), 349-359.

Policy aspects

• Identify new policy issue

• Generating policy options

• Awareness raising

• Lobbying

• Generate participation

• Data gathering

• Supporting interest groups

• Supporting joined-up government

• Policy implementation • Best practice guidance • Policy compliance • Policy enforcement • Policy legitimation • Policy review, revision or

evaluation • Fostering societal and/or

behavioural change • Funding strategy

ECSA Conference May 2016

Thank you

Johannes Vogel, ECSA Chair

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