Policy Roadmap on Research infrastructures for citizen science
excerpt from: What are the Policy Challenges for the Development of Research Infrastructures for Citizen Science in Europe?
[...] * Relevant gap: this is fundamental in case of frontier research due to its complexity for non-experts. Additionally, large research infrastructures governance is a complex network which constitutes another challenge for scientists-citizen scientists collaboration. This gap has to be tackled from two direction: on one side it requires significant effort to support the learning processes of the citizens scientists through capacity building strategies aimed at leveraging their knowledge and understanding on the research contents and on the way to conduct research activities; on the other side it requires to train the trainers as well as the researchers on how to approach CS initiatives and the interaction with the citizens. Benefits in closing this gap are several such as: empowerment and better engagement of citizens as scientists; more inclusivity of all categories of population; more quality and quantity data from scientific point of view; increase of trust in CS from both the scientific community and citizens point of views
Emmanuel Chaniotakis, 15/11/2022 14:26