Citizen science: Citizen science around the world

Examples on projects - Participate in or explore!:

Multidisciplinary citizen science projects:

 SciStarter: online citizen science hub with more than 3,000 projects

 Zooniverse: large platform for people-powered research

Astronomy:

• AAVSO: The American Association of Variable Star Observers
• CIOC – Coordinated Investogations Of Comets
• Galaxy Zoo

Environmental protection:

• Globe at Night
• OpenTEK: platform for observations of climate change impacts

Supporting citizen science with the computing power of your own computer:

• Science United: participate in volunteer computing; operated by UC Berkeley
  • BOINC: the platform

Health:

• PatientsLikeMe One of the world’s largest patient community and digital health management platforms.
• The CitieS-Health Toolkit In this toolkit you can find a collection of tools and video tutorials to engage citizens in different stages of a citizen science project.

European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) ECSA is a member of several EU-funded research and coordination projects focused on citizen science.

 Citizen Science Association (CSA)

Australian Citizen Science Association

Center for Citizen Science at the OeAD (Österreichischen Austauschdienst)

The ECIU University is an initiative of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU alliance) that creates an innovative educational model on a European scale. Tampere University Community is a member in ECIU.

The SMART-ER project offers information and webinars on citizen science: Webinars (upcoming and recorded)

EU-Citizen.Science is a platform for sharing information, tools and resources about citizen science. It is funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme.

Ecsite European network science centres & museum encourages citizens to participate in science.

COESO aims to develop and sustain citizen science research in the social sciences and humanities. VERA is an online collaboration platform where a diverse set of actors can build social science and humanities research projects together.