Projects

Scope

Ongoing

Servet XII reaches 33,933 metres: high altitude balloon launch from Lumpiaque (Zaragoza, Spain)
Openred – Light pollution: Measure artificial light at night at street level with the public and share it on an open map
Observatory of Citizen Science in Spain: The meeting point for citizen science projects, resources and people in Spain
Geonity: A free platform for creating and taking part in citizen science projects
Lost at Night: Locate night-time photos of Earth taken from the International Space Station on a map
OSIRIS: Open Science Inspiring Inclusive Research and Innovation towards Societal Impact in Europe
ORION: Reliable data for regulators in radiological and nuclear emergencies
THRIVE: Expanding the role of citizen science in biodiversity and ecosystem services
SLDAR: The future of augmented reality, with a European seal and citizen participation
EOSC-CSN: Designing the thematic node that brings citizen science into the EOSC Federation
CitSci Sort: Classify scientific publications on citizen science
Life-Nitrazens: Citizen science for nitrate monitoring
JustSafe: Fair strategies for social adaptation to climate change
RIECS-Concept: Towards a pan-European research infrastructure for excellent citizen science
AmIAire: Citizen science and sport in the classroom to monitor air quality
Atrium: Alternatives for a transition to sustainable, reusable and recyclable construction products
Procoast: Supporting the transformation of societies to make coastal ecosystems more resilient
Openred: Citizen science to measure environmental gamma radiation in Spain
Plan-B: Tracking light and noise pollution
ECHO: Engaging citizens in soil science

Completed

2025

  • Desenredados 2025

    Your social media content can contribute to scientific research

    Digital society · National

2023

2022

2021

  • COESO 2021–2023

    Connecting research and society

    Citizen science infrastructure · European

  • Decido 2021–2024

    Participatory methods, cloud tools and data analysis for effective policymaking

    Participatory governance · European

  • Identidades Comunes 2021–2022

    National Meeting on Citizen Science, Social Sciences and Humanities

    Citizen science research · National

  • Interfungi 2021–2022

    An intergenerational network of fungi observers

    Biodiversity · National

  • Ruidómetro 2021

    A mobile app to measure, label and map noise pollution with the help of the public

    Environmental monitoring · National

  • Socio-bee 2021–2024

    Citizen science for air quality monitoring

    Air quality · European

2020

  • CitMApp 2020–2021

    A free app for collecting geolocated data in citizen science projects

    Citizen science infrastructure · National

  • COVID-PHYM 2020–

    Citizen distributed computing to find existing drugs that can block SARS-CoV-2 replication

    Citizen science research · National

  • Lost at Night 2020–2024

    Help map night-time photos of cities taken from the International Space Station

    Space · National

  • NEWSERA 2020–2023

    Citizen science as a new paradigm for science communication

    Science communication · European

  • Pájaros en la Nube 2020–2021

    Sensor-equipped birdhouses for studying insect-eating wildlife from schools

    Biodiversity · National

  • Vigilantes del Aire 2020–2023

    Citizen science to measure air quality with strawberry plants

    Air quality · National

2019

  • Aragón Open Air Museum 2019–2020

    A collaborative mobile app for exploring and sharing routes through Aragon’s urban heritage, castles and archaeological sites

    Citizen science research · National

  • Aragón Photo 2019–2020

    Rescuing and digitising the hidden photographic heritage of family collections and archives in Aragon

    Citizen science research · National

  • Desafío Bajo Zero 2019–2021

    Scientific experiments designed by students and carried out in Antarctica

    Environmental monitoring · National

  • EU-Citizen.Science 2019–

    The European platform for sharing citizen science projects, resources and experiences

    Citizen science infrastructure · European

  • Make It Special 2019–2020

    Maker culture and fab labs serving special education schools

    Digital society · National

  • OpenReq 2019

    An intelligent system for gathering and prioritising software requirements with the community, applied to citizen science

    Citizen science infrastructure · European

  • The Great Sound Experiment 2019

    An app to find out how well the human ear can tell the quality of compressed audio

    Digital society · European

2018

2017

  • Drones y mazmorras 2017

    Secondary school students in Aragon made scale models of castles and historic buildings using drones, 3D modelling and digital fabrication

    Science communication · National

  • Micromascotas 2017–2019

    A project to discover the microorganisms in our homes through citizen science, workshops and low-cost hardware

    Science communication · National

  • National citizen science action plan 2017–

    A plan, commissioned by the Ministry, to consolidate citizen science in Spain

    Citizen science infrastructure · National

  • Urban ecology 2017–

    A citizen working group to analyse, care for and enrich Zaragoza's urban ecosystem

    Environmental monitoring · National

  • ¿Qué es la ciencia para ti? 2017

    A CIEMAT public survey on how people see science and technology

    Science communication · National

2016

  • Apadrina un olivo 2016

    Citizen science to restore the abandoned olive groves of Oliete (Teruel) and build a social oil mill

    Biodiversity · National

  • Mural Hunter 2016–

    A collaborative, geolocated catalogue of street art from around the world

    Digital society · National

  • OdourCollect 2016–2019

    An app for citizens to build collaborative maps of odour nuisance

    Air quality · European

  • Vigilantes del Cierzo 2016–2019

    Zaragoza residents used strawberry plants on their balconies to measure air pollution

    Air quality · National

2015

2014

  • Aqua 2014–2018

    Students across Spain measured chlorine and pH in tap water to map its quality

    Environmental monitoring · National

  • Collective Music Experiment 2014

    A collective intelligence experiment in which the audience composed music online during the Sónar festival

    Citizen science research · European

  • Fold it! 2014

    Crowdfunding campaign to bring an app that predicts protein stability and dynamics to Ibercivis's BOINC platform

    Citizen science infrastructure · National

  • NASA Space Apps Challenge (Zaragoza) 2014–2022

    NASA’s international hackathon in Zaragoza, where Ibercivis sponsored citizen science prizes

    Space · National

  • Project Q 2014

    An online experiment to find out whether citizen science also works for the social sciences

    Citizen science research · National

  • Science in your Mobile 2014

    A multi-game mobile app to bring science closer to young people

    Science communication · National

2013

  • Cell Spotting 2013–

    The public analysed images of tumour cells to study the effect of potential cancer drugs

    Citizen science research · European

  • Sun4All 2013–

    Citizen sunspot counting in a historical archive of images of the Sun

    Space · European

2012

  • GripeNet 2012–

    Volunteers reported online each week whether they had flu, to monitor its incidence in Spain

    Citizen science research · National

  • Socientize 2012–2014

    A European project to promote citizen science and define its role in Europe

    Citizen science infrastructure · European

2011

2008

  • Ibercivis BOINC 2008–

    The volunteer computing platform where Ibercivis began, with members of the public donating their computers’ idle time to scientific calculations

    Citizen science infrastructure · National