Citizen Science Connect
Projects
Citizen science projects and related initiatives active in different places, drawn from the existing MCSA catalog.
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Beyond Barriers — EU research results record (CORDIS)
European Commission — CORDISProjectsEurope2026
The official EU research results record for the Horizon Europe project Beyond Barriers, in which MCSA is a partner. The project addresses research inclusion.
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ROSiE — Responsible Open Science in Europe
ROSiE projectProjectsEuropeActive
ROSiE is a European project focused on responsible open science in practice. Its Knowledge Hub shares guidance and resources on responsible open science practices.
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ACTION — Participatory science toolkit against pollution (CORDIS)
European Commission — CORDISProjectsEuropeActive
The official EU research results record for the ACTION project, which worked to transform citizen science from a mostly scientist-led process into a more participatory, inclusive and citizen-led practice.
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Cos4Cloud — Co-designed Citizen Observatories Services for the EOS-Cloud
Cos4Cloud projectProjectsEuropeActive
A European Horizon 2020 project that developed technological services to improve citizen observatories by increasing the quality and interoperability of citizen science data.
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YouCount — Youth Citizen Social Science
YouCount projectProjectsEurope2021
An EU-funded project exploring how more inclusive and youth-friendly societies can be created through youth citizen social science, co-creating new knowledge to increase the social inclusion of young people.
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YouCount — Empowering youth and co-creating social innovations (CORDIS)
European Commission — CORDISProjectsEuropeActive
The official EU research results record for the YouCount project, which aims to explore how more inclusive and youth-friendly societies can be created through youth citizen social science.
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GROW Observatory (CORDIS)
European Commission — CORDISProjectsEurope2017
The official EU research results record for the GROW Observatory, a Horizon 2020 citizen science project that engaged communities in soil and land monitoring using low-cost sensors, generating data for science and sustainable land management.
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D-NOSES — Odour pollution citizen science
D-NOSES projectProjectsEuropeActive
A European project that uses citizen science to map odour pollution and empower affected communities, bringing together citizens, industries and regulators to address a neglected environmental issue.
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European Citizen Science (ECS) — project record (CORDIS)
European Commission — CORDISProjectsEuropeActive
The official EU research results record for the ECS project, which grows a strong European citizen science community with access to open and FAIR data and tools, and develops the EU-Citizen.Science platform.
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IMPETUS — Impetus for Citizen Science
IMPETUS project (Horizon Europe)ProjectsEurope2024
A Horizon Europe project that championed citizen science across Europe for four years, funding innovative citizen science initiatives through an accelerator programme and recognising outstanding work through the European Prize for Citizen Science.
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LandSense — A Citizen Observatory and Innovation Marketplace
LandSense project (Horizon 2020)ProjectsEuropeActive
A Horizon 2020 citizen observatory project that combined citizen science and Earth observation data to improve how people map and monitor land cover and land use change across Europe.
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WeObserve — A Citizen Observatory Community
WeObserve project (Horizon 2020)ProjectsEuropeActive
A Horizon 2020 project that brought together four citizen observatory projects (LandSense, Ground Truth 2.0, GROW Observatory and Scent) to build a community of practice and strengthen citizen observatories across Europe.
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CitieS-Health — Citizen Science for Urban Environment and Health
CitieS-Health project (Horizon 2020)ProjectsEuropeActive
A Horizon 2020 project that put citizens’ concerns at the heart of environmental health research, developing a citizen science model to assess urban air and noise pollution and its health effects in European cities.
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Ground Truth 2.0
Ground Truth 2.0 project (Horizon 2020)ProjectsEuropeActive
A Horizon 2020 project that demonstrated and validated six citizen observatories in real operational conditions, co-designed with citizens to monitor flora, fauna, water availability and water quality for land and natural resource management.
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CoCoRaHS — Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network
CoCoRaHS (Colorado State University)ProjectsUnited States1998
A citizen science network where volunteers of all ages measure and map precipitation (rain, hail, and snow) in their communities using a standard rain gauge, providing high-quality data for weather, climate, and water resource applications.
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Globe at Night
NOIRLab (National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory)ProjectsGlobal2006
A citizen science project where volunteers measure and report night-sky brightness to raise awareness of light pollution and its impact on astronomy, wildlife, and human health, building a global map of sky brightness.
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City Nature Challenge
California Academy of Sciences and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles CountyProjectsGlobal2016
An annual citizen science bioblitz in which cities worldwide compete to document urban biodiversity, with volunteers photographing wild plants, animals, and fungi and sharing observations through the iNaturalist platform.
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RedMap (Range Extension Database and Mapping Project)
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of TasmaniaProjectsAustralia2009
A citizen science project that invites Australians to spot, log, and map marine species that are uncommon along their part of the coast, helping track how species distributions are shifting in response to environmental change.
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SeasonWatch
Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) and National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)ProjectsIndia2010
A citizen science project that studies the changing seasons in India by monitoring the annual cycles of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of common trees, building baseline data on tree phenology and its response to climate.
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Snapshot Safari
University of MinnesotaProjectsAfrica2017
A citizen science project that operates one of the largest camera-trap networks in the world, engaging online volunteers to identify wildlife in camera-trap images from protected areas across Africa to support ecology and conservation research.
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CyberTracker
CyberTracker ConservationProjectsAfrica1997
A citizen science initiative that developed handheld software enabling indigenous and community trackers to record wildlife observations in the field, combining traditional tracking knowledge with scientific monitoring and conservation.
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ClimateWatch
Earthwatch AustraliaProjectsAustralia2009
A citizen science phenology project where volunteers record and monitor how climate change is affecting the seasonal behaviour of plants and animals across Australia, building the largest such dataset in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Neotropical Waterbird Census (Censo Neotropical de Aves Acuáticas)
Wetlands International (Latin America and the Caribbean)ProjectsLatin America & Caribbean1990
A long-term citizen and participatory science monitoring program coordinated by Wetlands International across Latin America and the Caribbean, where volunteers count waterbirds at wetlands to track populations and guide wetland conservation.