About Us

Mission

Ibercivis carries out and promotes research in many different areas of scientific knowledge at local, national and international levels.
Ibercivis provides technical support, dissemination and training so that anyone can participate in scientific research, according to their interests and always dynamic capabilities.

Activity

We share resources and expertise derived from our own citizen science activity.
We conduct our own research by developing our own citizen science projects in which we theorise, prototype, model, evaluate impact, measure, develop technology and publish results.
We promote the dissemination of the concept of “citizen science” through the development of the projects and through local, national and international events, exhibitions, publications, reports, awards, training and other activities.

Milestones, projects and events

2006

Desktop Grid

Ibercivis was born as a computing project using the Desktop Grid paradigm.
2006

2007

Zivis

Zivis, the first Spanish volunteer computing project, is born

2007

2008

Ibercivis

Zivis becomes Ibercivis, a national volunteer computing project. Three projects are being carried out: nuclear fusion, protein folding and materials simulation

2008

2009

Boinc Multiserver

An agreement is established with the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, the Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular of the University of Coimbra and the Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas in Portugal for the incorporation of new applications to Ibercivis
2009

2010

Participatory experiments

It incorporates the paradigm of participatory experiments beyond volunteer computing: human behaviour, environmental monitoring, social sciences and complex systems.
2010

2011

Foundation

Ibercivis is officially constituted as a private, non-profit foundation
2011

2012

Socientize

The Socientize project, the first European project (FP7) on citizen science, is launched. New participatory experiments are incorporated
2012

2013

Green Paper

The Green Paper on Citizen Science is published
2013

2014

White Paper

Experiments in collective intelligence. White Paper on Citizen Science for Europe is published
2014

2015

CESAR Open Innovation Labs

CESAR Citizen Labs in Etopia-Science, Art and Technology set up by the University of Zaragoza, the BIFI University Research Institute, the Ibercivi Foundation, the Zaragoza City Council and the Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation
2015

2016

Spanish National Observatory on Citizen Science

I Open Call CESAR-Etopia. Beginning of the Observatory of CC in Spain with the collaboration of FECYT-Ministry of Science and Innovation
2016

2017

Citizen Science National Plan

The National Citizen Science Plan is being developed in conjunction with FECYT-Ministry of Science and Innovation
2017

2018

Citizen Science in Spain Advocay Plan

Promotion of QC with FECYT-Ministry of Science and Innovation

I Ibercivis Call for CC Projects

Third Millennium Prize-Heraldo “Science and Society”

FECYT projects: OdourCollect, CanSat

H2020 project: D-NOSES

ERASMUS+ project: BRITEC

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2018

2019

I International Forum of Citizen Science in Spain

I International QC Forum co-organised with FECYT-Ministry of Science and Innovation

Observatory of CC in Zaragoza in collaboration with the City Council of Zaragoza

II Ibercivis Call for QC Projects

FECYT Projects: Air Watchers, Cities At Night, Cansat, Make it Special

H2020 Project: EU-Citizen.Science

 

2019

2022

Covid-Phym

FECYT Projects: Pájaros en la nube, Vigilantes del aire II, Desafío bajo Zero, Make it Special II

COVID-PHYM project with CSIC

Proyecto H2020: NEWSERA

2022

2021

Citizen Science, Social Sciences and Humanities

I National Meeting on QC in Humanities and Social Sciences

FECYT projects: Interfungi, Servet

H2020 projects: COESO, DECIDO

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2021

2022

Citizen Science in the univesity

Citizen science promotion strategy with the Ministry of Universities

Identidades Comunes II

FECYT projects: InterFungi, AulaCheck, Servet, FUENAragon, Flebocollect

H2020 project: Socio-BEE project

Horizon Europe project: ECS

2022