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 an important gap, and it is one of the most difficult to be closed. To support CS development and scale up, scientific communities need to change their behaviour and increase the trust about the value added of CS data from the scientific point of view. However, without a significant change in the governance models of the research organizations as well as in their operation processes these goals would be rather difficult to achieve. This change encompasses the development of an infrastructure for CS that establishes capacity for CS initiatives and affirms CS as a resource for scientists; the consideration of different goals of CS initiatives and how they can benefit the research programmes and the research infrastructure. It also includes the definition of career pathways for scientists who want to develop research though CS initiatives

To make CS a sustainable practice one needs to identify its benefits for research (scientific output), for research infrastructures (opening up to society), and for society. This requires allocation of funds and personeffort by researchers, the collaboration with boundary organizations etc. A great step here would be for funded research projects to be required to have a work package (CSR - inspired) on citizen science.

Emmanuel Chaniotakis, 15/11/2022 14:41