It could be useful to know if the initiatives already funded here have common features and if there are some lesson learnt to share.

In D8.3 we show that the citizen science projects of REINFORCE achieve to build a core community which does the most effort while people who participate in events contribute some effort but are "refreshed" over time. D9.4 (final report) of REINFORCE discusses these topics and provides some insight on gender, age distribution as well as educational background of a sample of the citizens participating in REINFORCE. I believe that REINFORCE can help shed some light in the question: "who are the potential citizen scientists?", "how do they contribute?" and "what motivates them?" Also, one needs t