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Build the first citizen network to measure natural gamma radiation.
Solve technology challenges and help us map the territory.
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Help conserve nature.
Our ambassadors invite you to take part in this citizen science project to research and care for soils.
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Analyse nitrates in water.
Monitor the environmental health of the Duero, Ebro and Mondego river basins by collecting samples.
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European project on light and noise pollution and their effects on biodiversity.
Take part through our projects Lost at Night and Openred · Light pollution.
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Measure artificial light at night and share it on an open map.
Join the night walks with light meters and explore measurements from across Europe on the Openred map.
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Help us georeference images from the International Space Station.
Place on the map the night-time photos taken by astronauts to build a global map of light pollution.
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Help classify citizen science:
Join CitSci Sort to categorise scientific publications collaboratively and give structure to this field of knowledge.
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What is citizen science?
Citizen science can be defined as a set of research methodologies in which anyone interested can take an active part in one or more stages of the research cycle, according to their ever-evolving abilities: contributing and/or analysing data, interpreting results, identifying research questions or putting forward hypotheses.
Citizen science reaches into as many fields as science itself studies, and the ways its practitioners can take part are almost endless.
Full guide: what citizen science is and how to get involved →
Since 2011 Ibercivis has helped deliver…
Citizen science projects
Project participants
European projects
Featured projects
RIECS
Towards the pan-European research infrastructure for excellent citizen science
EOSC-CSN
Designing the thematic node that brings citizen science into the EOSC Federation.
ECHO
Communities engaged with science to preserve the health of Europe’s soils
Plan-B
Tracking light and noise pollution
About the Foundation
Ibercivis was established as a foundation in 2011, but its citizen science work goes back to 2007, when the ZIVIS volunteer computing project was successfully launched in the city of Zaragoza.
Ibercivis has the experience to offer a full range of services for conceiving, organising and launching citizen science projects and programmes. We develop plans and tools, together with guides and resources, so that any person or organisation can run them independently.
We provide methodologies and values to ensure quality in data handling and in everything related to ethics for participants.
We also design strategies for building communities around projects, communication and dissemination plans, and technology tools for running scientific experiments in which citizens take part in any phase of the research process: from framing the hypothesis to collecting samples, through analysis and validation, alongside research teams and institutes across Europe.
We work across a range of fields in a cross-cutting, multidisciplinary way, promoting the active participation of citizens in scientific research. Key areas include health, biodiversity and the environment, STEAM education, tackling disinformation and building trust in science, the social sciences and humanities, science policy and information technology.
Ibercivis currently takes part in national and European projects that apply citizen science methodologies.
National projects that include citizen science experiments usually run during the school year. They are aimed both at students and teachers, for projects carried out in the classroom, and at communities and members of the public, for citizen science projects on biodiversity, heritage preservation, climate change adaptation, tackling disinformation and more.
The Foundation also coordinates pilot projects in several European cities, where local communities contribute actively by taking part in the proposed experiments, collecting data for analysis or raising questions about their surroundings that science can help answer.
Once finished, many of these projects are handed over to citizens, who can replicate them in their own communities. To make this possible, the Foundation lists the tools needed and the scientific protocols to follow to obtain the expected results.
If you are starting from scratch, you can read up using some of our resources on how to develop a citizen science project. They will help you understand its methodologies and timescales and set achievable goals. With more experience, you can apply to the various funding calls to launch it with more resources. Either way, you can write to us at info@ibercivis.es telling us about your proposal and we will try to guide you.
We publish scientific reports with the results of the citizen science projects we coordinate, as well as the results of our own research on citizen science. You can also follow the progress of the European projects we are involved in through the deliverables their consortia publish regularly, both on their websites and in repositories such as Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/ibercivis.
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