Citizen Science Connect

Opportunities

Ways to take part in citizen science — platforms and initiatives where volunteers can contribute, drawn from the existing MCSA catalog.

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EU-Citizen.Science platform
EU-Citizen.ScienceOpportunitiesEuropeOpen
A knowledge hub for citizen science in Europe, built in collaboration with the most relevant citizen science actors — including international events and more than 20 citizen science training modules.
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Zooniverse
ZooniverseOpportunitiesGlobalOpen
The world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research, hosting online citizen science projects across many disciplines where volunteers help researchers classify and analyze data.
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Citizen Science Project Builder
EU-Citizen.Science / Crowd4SDGOpportunitiesEuropeOpen
A web-based tool that allows researchers, students and members of the public to create and run data-analysis citizen science projects, enabling volunteers to take part in complex classification tasks.
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SciStarter
SciStarterOpportunitiesGlobalOpen
A platform that helps people find, join and contribute to citizen science projects, with tools for project organizers to recruit and retain volunteers.
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OpenAIRE
OpenAIREOpportunitiesEuropeOpen
A European open science infrastructure that helps researchers make their publications and data open, findable and FAIR, with guidance and tools for managing research outputs.
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Zenodo
CERN / OpenAIREOpportunitiesGlobalOpen
An open-access repository where researchers can deposit and share research data, publications and other outputs, each assigned a persistent DOI to support FAIR data.
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iNaturalist
iNaturalistOpportunitiesGlobalOpen
A platform where people can record and share observations of living things, contributing to biodiversity data used by researchers and building a community of naturalists.
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eBird
Cornell Lab of OrnithologyOpportunitiesGlobalOpen
A global platform where birders record bird observations, building one of the world’s largest biodiversity datasets used for research, conservation and education.
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The GLOBE Program
The GLOBE ProgramOpportunitiesGlobalOpen
An international science and education program where students, educators and citizens collect environmental data on the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and pedosphere, contributing to Earth system science.
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CitSci.org
CitSciOpportunitiesGlobalOpen
A platform that supports creating, managing and sharing citizen science projects, helping communities and researchers collect, manage and visualize volunteer data.
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MICS — Measuring the impact of citizen science
MICS projectOpportunitiesEuropeOpen
A platform of tools developed by the EU-funded MICS project to measure the costs, benefits and impact of citizen science projects across different domains, using metrics and indicators.
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Foldit
FolditOpportunitiesGlobalOpen
A citizen science game where players solve puzzles related to protein folding, contributing to biochemistry research and demonstrating how public participation can advance scientific discovery.
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BOINC — Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
University of California, BerkeleyOpportunitiesGlobalOpen
An open-source platform for volunteer computing that lets people donate their computer’s idle time to scientific research projects across many fields.
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Open Science Framework (OSF)
Center for Open ScienceOpportunitiesGlobalOpen
A platform that supports open research workflows, helping researchers manage projects, share data and materials, preregister studies and improve reproducibility and transparency.
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Bürger schaffen Wissen
Wissenschaft im Dialog / Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der WissenschaftenOpportunitiesGermanyOpen
The central platform for citizen science in Germany, mapping projects and connecting practitioners, researchers and institutions nationwide. It is operated by Wissenschaft im Dialog and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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Pl@ntNet
Pl@ntNet consortium (CIRAD, INRAE, INRIA, IRD, Tela Botanica)OpportunitiesGlobalOpen
A citizen science application that helps people identify plants from photographs and contributes the observations to a shared botanical biodiversity dataset, developed by a French research consortium including CIRAD, INRAE, INRIA, IRD and the Tela Botanica network.
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Vigie-Nature
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN)OpportunitiesEuropeOpen
A citizen science programme of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris that co-creates biodiversity monitoring projects with NGOs and the public, building long-term ecological observation data across France.
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Natusfera
GBIF Spain / Spanish node of the Global Biodiversity Information FacilityOpportunitiesEuropeOpen
A Spanish citizen science biodiversity observation platform, adopted as the citizen science platform for the Spanish node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), where people record and share observations of species.
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iSpotnature
The Open UniversityOpportunitiesGlobalOpen
A citizen science platform developed by the Open University where people share observations and help each other identify species, building a global community of naturalists and a verified biodiversity record.
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Treezilla — the monster map of trees
The Open University / Earthwatch EuropeOpportunitiesUnited KingdomOpen
A citizen science platform that invites people to map, measure and monitor trees across the United Kingdom and beyond, building an open dataset on urban and rural tree cover.
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