The Erasmus+ project Scie-Citizen is offering a wealth of smart practices in Citizen Science. It is a fantastic opportunity to schools, groups, communities and individuals to gain access to a diverse repository of ideas in the field. In the context of Open Schools for Open Societies (OSOS), the content is particularly useful to schools, teachers and students who are working on innovative projects with an emphasis on Citizen Science and Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI). In addition, OSOS, the Open Schools Journal for Open Science, and the Schools Study Earthquakes community in OSOS will feature as selected smart practices in the collection.
The mission of Scie-Citizens is to advance citizen science through knowledge sharing, collaboration, capacity building, and advocacy. The project aims to encourage broad and meaningful participation in citizen science through promoting inclusive and collaborative partnerships and facilitating a community that shares practices, knowledge, and tools to bring recognition to the value and impact of citizen science. The project seeks to create an assessment tool for identifying smart practices using citizen science approaches and collect those practices in a method handbook. The handbook is a tool-box for trainers, teacher and other facilitators to create innovative and tested instructions all over Europe and across all educational sectors. 70 good practice examples and 7 policy briefs are published in a comprehensive project eBook. The tool and the method handbook are openly accessible and can be used by institutions from all education sectors in formal and non-formal learning. The project can be understood as a pre-assessment of the needs to create and test European curricula in citizenship building.
Stay tuned for the forthcoming publication of the eBook: http://www.scie-citizens.org/