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IPM Popillia | Integrated Pest Management of the Japanese Beetle
The IPM-Popillia Horizon 2020 project aims to address the challenge of a new risk to plant health in Europe's agriculture and food safety: the invasion of the Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica. This invasive species was introduced accidentally to mainland Europe in 2014 and can quickly spread by transportation and trade. As a species with a wide range of feeding plants, P. japonica threatens the entire agricultural sector, urban landscapes, and biodiversity in invaded areas.
A Milestone for Citizen Science: SPOTTERON 3.0 Shortnews
We are happy that a new platform generation is finally ready for your Citizen Science Apps! After months of building up the groundwork, thorough evaluation, testing and improving, we are excited to present you the new and most extensive Citizen Science Platform we've ever had running. Welcome to SPOTTERON 3.0! Welcome to the Future of Citizen Science Apps.
Citizen Science Apps for SDGs
The UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) are an essential core of many Citizen Science projects. Many of the 17 SDGs relate directly to topics in which citizen engagement plays an important role. With modern and interactive Citizen Science Apps, a broad public can actively support Sustainable Development Goals with observational data contributions and by improving the situation in one's own community.
Citizen Science in Horizon Europe | Partnerships & Proposals
Cooperations for Horizon Europe - building the future of Citizen Science together. #HorizonEU
The Horizon Europe programme by the European Union is the key funding programme for EU research and innovation projects. Citizen Science and public involvement have always been a vital aspect of Horizon - both in the predecessor Horizon 2020 and now in Horizon Europe.
Our participant information:
Partner Full Name: SPOTTERON Gmbh
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Partner Short Name: SPOTTERON or SPOT
LEAR: Philipp Hummer
Address: Faßziehergasse 5/16, AT 1070 Vienna
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Among its missions, the new Horizon Europe programme supports the achievement of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), fights climate change, and integrates science into society on a larger scale. It further strengthens the impact of research and innovation within the European Union and beyond and supports the collaboration between the science sector, small-medium enterprises (SME), and society.
As an SME, we are happy to offer our know-how and services within research projects, applying for Horizon Europe grants. We already bring the experience of how Horizon project partnerships are operating with us, and we contribute actively to a proposal from the early stages.
Our central part in the proposal stage of a Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe project is to shape how a Citizen Science App integrates seamlessly in the research and creates innovation and participation opportunities for the public, together with the coordinator and the consortium. With years of experience in Citizen and Community Science and the development and maintenance of digital tools and the underlying infrastructure, we bring this know-how to a consortium and strengthen the proposal by a practical approach on how applications and software can benefit the project. Our strong focus on digital ethics and user privacy further helps the proposal with undertaking the complex topics of data protection, GDPR, and intellectual property rights in a digital environment.
Our project contributions in a Horizon Europe partnership:
For the proposal stage:
- Concepts and ideas: From the first call on, we contribute ideas and concepts to explore how the project can utilize Citizen Science and user participation, and we draft which innovation and software features can be developed to achieve the project's goals.
- Technology consulting and AI: we bring an extensive knowledge about technologies, mobile applicaitons, digital data handling and AI (artificial intelligence) to a project and its consortium.
- Proposal Text Contributions: as an active partner in the consortium, we contribute texts for our range of expertise and bring our know-how about the digital landscape and how to apply technical solutions in the right way to the proposal.
- Visual enhancements: we design a project proposal logo and strengthen the proposal by the graphic design of figures and charts for a better understanding and first impression in the review process.
During run-time of the Horizon Europe project:
- Task leadership: as an expert for the digital landscape, design, and user participation, we lead tasks within a work package related to Citizen Science Apps, digital tools, dissemination materials or the project's website.
- Innovation/Technology Development: within a Horizon Europe project, we develop innovative technologies and solutions for Citizen Science, Science communication and data collection.
- Project website: we provide a modern and responsive website for the project based on an easy to use Content Management System (CMS) with advanced features from Blogging to Citizen Science integration
- Reliable ICT Infrastructure: with the SPOTTERON Cloud, we offer a stable and dependable technical base for running participatory projects - from secure data hosting over map servers to a performance-optimized infrastructure that allows high levels of concurrent user activity on an international scale.
- Support of Co-Creation activities: We support co-creation activities and the technical design and integration of results for the scope of the technical solutions and applications developed during the project.
- Technical support: we provide technical support for all digital tools or websites developed in the project, including ongoing App Updates and Content Management System (CMS) maintenance.
- Design: Besides creating the project's website, we bolster the project's dissemination activities by the professional design of online media, social media teasers, posters or hand-out material.
- Knowledge transfer and workshops: we offer to hold seminars for the consortium members on how to work with these tools and on the various topics of the digital landscape - from data privacy or intellectual property rights to how online technology actually works behind the curtain.
Additional material and inputs we can provide for proposals:
- Applied digital privacy and digital ethics
- Digital intellectual property rights
- Gender dimension and Equality in digital technologies and public digital spaces
- Internet and Communication Technology background knowledge
- Dissemination support on own channels
Developing new innovative technologies for Citizen Science and Research Projects
Our main task in a Citizen Science work package in a Horizon Europe project is to provide participatory Apps and digital tools, which will be available for the public to take part in the project. To achieve an innovative and immersive integration of an interested public in the research project means that Citizens are not just "used" for data collection but also find extended functionalities ready.
With SPOTTERON's strong focus on building communities and integrated communication features, we are prepared to push the border further and develop innovative ways to strengthen Citizen Science as a whole. Innovation is one of the key aspects in successful Horizon Europe proposals, also in terms of the scope of the technical solutions, playing a role in the project. Already in the proposal stage, we collaborate on what we plan to develop as new features and innovative technologies for the Citizen Science App or the digital tools in case of successful funding. This objective-driven approach allows us to specify milestones, deliverables, and our Personal Month (PM) budget reliably and reflect a thoughtful level of planning in the proposal's work packages.
Open Science, Open Data
Every project can apply its preferred form of licensing to all related non-personal data - as a platform, we do not interfere with the data aspect and do not claim any ownership on data. We support Open Science and Open Data policies and have procedures to release anonymized data sets to the public. For unique creative works like photographs in user-generated Content (UGC), we apply the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license for portability and unrestricted use in terms of intellectual property rights.
Reach out for Citizen Science innovation & digital participation toolkits!
If you are interested in utilizing Citizen Science or user participation in your Horizon Europe project or other proposals for large research funding schemes, please get in contact! We are happy to assist with the proposal and join a consortium as an active member for projects with Citizen Science innovation.
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Example designs for Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe Proposals
Philipp Hummer
Philipp Hummer (male) is CEO and leader of the Design at SPOTTERON. He is a professional designer and founder of SPOTTERON Gmbh, with over 18 years of experience in design, web design, user interface design, media production, online media, visual design and team management.
Philipp was born in Wels, Upper Austria and was undertaking expeditions into nature already as a little kid. The term "Citizen Science" was not yet present in these times, but Philipp sent his first species observations of Green Toads (Bufo viridis) to the Natural History Museum's herpetology department when he was just 8 years old. Via postal letter - because internet or smartphone apps were not a thing back then!
Philipp's second most favourite thing in the universe is Art and Visual Aesthetics. Drawing and painting have always been a big part of his life, sparking also his interest in visual design and media production. When the internet came to households, a love was born. Philipp built his first websites in pure handcrafted HTML when modems did make sounds. This all conglomerated in a ton of experience and practice, which is now applied at the SPOTTERON Citizen Science platform.
Personal pages:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipphummer/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philipp-Hummer
Data Visualization Overlay
The "Data Visualization Overlay" brings interactive data visualizations to all Citizen Science Apps on the SPOTTERON Platform. It allows for significant relationships to be illustrated with one click and presented visually, communicating complex data relationships and data-driven insights in an easy-to-understand way.
Gender Equality Plan
Gender Equality Plan
SPOTTERON, as a Citizen Science and participatory platform, sees it as part of its culture to commit to gender aspects and equality. In all applicable gender selections in service and software developments, we include the options for not only male and female forms of address but also for unspecified and non-binary.
In ordering genders in selection elements or other wordings, we list the female gender first to break with old established habits and increase inclusiveness for female genders. In practical design tasks and consulting projects, we notify project partners about gender equality and inclusiveness, e.g. in wordings of project content, user input option ranges, and target group considerations.
In terms of data collected about users at account creation, users can freely choose gender options and even switch account types and gender anytime without restrictions or delay. User account data is not aggregated or shared as data collection outside the system functionalities.
In our daily communication and management tasks, we always include gender equality and identity as part of our core principles. Every member of SPOTTERON is always aware that including gender diversity and equality in the platform's design decisions and communication is not only required but a collectively shared mindset. Living inclusiveness is at the core of our internal culture and daily work.
Gender diversity and inclusiveness in SPOTTERON’s online presence:
On our platform's online channels like on social media or website, we participate actively in Pride Month by focusing on gender-related aspects and hashtags and showing rainbow colours in our official profile pictures as a direct way to join in on gender diversity and inclusiveness visibility. At all times, gender-related issues in online user interactions and comments by audiences are reported and moderated.
Work-life balance and organisational culture:
Applying the possibilities of the digital nature of our work, we offer flexible work hours and time management for all our team members. Personal needs and own work time organisation is in practice for everyone, creating an uncomplicated and respectful environment for everyone's work-life balance.
Gender balance in leadership and decision-making
Project management and partner communication are handled in a bottom-up way. Every team member is involved in the decision-making process and always ongoing communication with low organisational hierarchies. Each member is always invited to include personal gender experiences in processes to embrace gender views and diversity in the results and outcomes.
Gender equality in recruitment and career progression
When recruiting new team members, we always aim to increase gender diversity, especially supporting gender diversity in our more technical and IT-related work areas. For equally competent candidates, the female or non-binary applicant if prefered to foster gender diversity within SPOTTERON's team. One's personal gender identity has no impact on career progression decisions; careers and responsibilities are solely formed by one's skills, involvement and personal preferences.
Integration of the gender dimension into research and teaching content
As an effect of our role as consultants for Citizen Science and participatory projects, we always advise to include gender dimensions in questionnaire design, either by covering unique aspects and experiences of gender identities or always phrase content, wordings, and questionnaires elements in an inclusive way. This can influence how gender aspects are reflected in research outcomes and how participants from the various gender identities feel included on a per-project basis.
Measures against gender-based violence including sexual harassment
Due to the high level of communication and low hierarchies, we foster raising one's voice in gender-based issues or apprehension at any time. Occurrences of sexual harassment or even verbal slags are not tolerated. They can lead to the termination of the working relationship, which is also clearly stated in our work contracts for all team members.
Suppose a team member wants to reach out to the management of SPOTTERON about such a case; we have an email address in place for sending notifications about gender-based issues, violence or harassment, allowing anonymous and barrier-free reporting or problems should they occur. We know that mainly women and non-binary genders are affected by bullying or harassment online. For gender-relevant violations or harassment in the context of the applications or our online offer, you can contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. This email address is only accessed and maintained by female or non-binary team members.
Also, for users and participants in Citizen Science projects on the SPOTTERON Platform, there is an anonymous reporting option in place to reach out to us for gender-related issues, feedback and reports about harassment, slurs or gender-based violence. All instances when occurring are taken seriously, and all team members of SPOTTERON are informed with procedures in place to react accordingly and without unnecessary delay.
For SPOTTERON Gmbh:
Vienna, on 22nd of July 2021,
Philipp Hummer, CEO
Citizen Science App Taxonomy Service
Many Citizen Science projects aim to collect data about many categories and have an extensive set of user input options for their data recording. While a set of limited key options can be easily implemented in a Citizen Science App manually, handling hundreds or thousands of categories can be an impossible task. Also, from a user's perspective, extensive lists of categories can be overwhelming and challenging to use. For including large amounts of selectable types, the SPOTTERON Taxonomy Service stands ready to be used by Citizen Science projects.
Citizen Science Data Analysis Toolkit
When a project collects data in a Citizen Science App by public participation, often there is an additional need to interpret or analyse this data in more detail. With contributions skyrocketing in a successful Citizen Science Project, this can be a time-consuming and challenging task. Especially if the data relies not only on numbers or button choices but also on images or written text, analysing or reviewing tens of thousands of data points.
Catta
catta brings science to people in an understandable and humorous way. Those who wish can participate in real research projects. catta also advises in the areas of science communication, citizen science and scientainment, and designs and implements projects.
Worldwide Citizen Science Apps
With the COSEA App, Citizen Scientists can observe marine environments, document coastal habitats or species, and report on pollution, infrastructure and the blue economy. Their contributions on the map and activity in the app will help scientists better understand the impacts and drivers of marine factors to protect and foster a healthy relationship between humans and seas.
COSEA | Collaboration for Effective Sea Action
Naturkalender is the Austrian phenology App for interested Citizen Scientists who want to contribute to phenology and climate research by keeping a watch on their surroundings. Through Community Science observations like plants beginning to blossom, having fruits, starting to throw off leaves or when animals are active, they support the Austrian Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics´ data collection.
Nature's Calendar
CrowdWater is a global Citizen Science project initiated by the University of Zurich, which collects hydrological data. The goal is to develop a cheap and easy data collection method that can be used to predict floods and low flow. The long-term aim of the project is to complement existing gauging station networks, especially in regions with a sparse measurement network, such as in developing countries.
CrowdWater
At the Spot-a-Bee Citizen Science project, the researchers of Cardiff University and the University of Glasgow, UK want to find out what plants, trees and shrubs are important for bees in city and town parks and gardens. The project also wants to understand how planting in urban places might affect the production of urban honey. People can help survey bee-friendly plants in towns, cities and villages.
Spot-a-Bee
CoastSnap is a global Citizen Science project to capture changing coastlines. With the Citizen Science App, users can create timelines of coasts and record their development. Observing and uploading photos of the same location into the CoastSnap App helps researchers to understand how coastlines are changing over time.
CoastSnap
In the SpiderSpotter App, Citizen Scientists can share observations of spiders and their webs to help the research about their adaptation to the environment and contribute to biodiversity monitoring. The App features a range of spider species and it has an active community of spider enthusiasts and arachnologists.
SpiderSpotter
Global 2000's "LitterBug" Project is an initiative of the independent Austrian environmental organization GLOBAL 2000 alongside the Austrian Alpine Association "Edelweiss" and Alpine Club Mountain Club. The initiative was created to free nature from trash and to sharpen our awareness for the trash surrounding us in nature. The aim is to support a sustainably clean environment everywhere.
Global2000 LitterBug
Pilzfinder is the Web App of the mycology research society of the University of Vienna. In the browser-based project, participants can contribute mushroom observations from all across Europe and get feedback from the expert of the Austrian Mycology Society. By joining this Citizen Science project, users help with the science behind fungi and learn more about the fascinating world of mushrooms.
Pilzfinder
Coastal areas are in constant evolution, but in times of the imminent climate crisis, the coastline will change dramatically, and extreme weather phenomena are already starting to be part of our daily life. The Coastal Observer Citizen Science project explores these effects and their impact on the environment and our mood. By contributing observations about floods, tides storms and water quality, Citizen Scientists can help the University of Delaware, US, with their research.
Coastal Observer
ArtSpots
The BOB (acronym for Behavioural Observations in Beetles) App, an initiative by CREA, is dedicated to contributing to the behavioral study of protected insects in Europe. Citizen scientists are invited to observe three particular types of beetles in their surroundings: the stag beetle (Lucanus cervus), the rosalia longicorn (Rosalia alpina) and the funereal longhorn beetle (Morimus asper).
BOB - Behavioural Observations in Beetles
The main objective of the UrbanBetter Cityzens App, initiated by the Africa-led global social enterprise UrbanBetter, is to create a youth-led global movement that connects physical activity with technology and citizen science to promote more climate-resilient and healthier urban public spaces.
UrbanBetter Cityzens
Walkability, an initiative by the Walk21 Foundation, a UK charity, aims to make walking safer, more accessible, and enjoyable for people of all ages and abilities. The Walkability App allows users to share their walking experiences, providing valuable insights into the accessibility and safety of public spaces.
Walkability
The Citizen Science App "CoronaReport" allows social science to understand the current Corona Virus crisis better and collect data about the impact of COVID-19 on our lives and society. The app can be used by Citizen Scientists to create diaries and reports about situations, with which the Citizen Science community can interact and exchange their thoughts and stories. The contributions will help social science and the data will be made available to research partners. CoronaReport is lead by the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
CoronaReport
HydroCrowd is a research project of the Justus Liebig University Giessen, which investigates the potential of participatory monitoring to increase the availability of hydro-climatic data for sustainable water management in Ecuador, Honduras and Tanzania.
HydroCrowd
NatureSpots is a non-commercial and free project to discover nature together. In the app, nature photos and sightings of animals, plants or mushrooms can be shared with the community on the map. The app is a new initiative for observing nature and taking part is very simple and straightforward. The app is free of advertising, does not track users and takes digital privacy seriously.
NatureSpots
The HealthyHoods App, a Citizen Science project by researchers from Denmark, Latvia, and the Netherlands, aims to promote healthy lifestyles by focusing on food and physical activity opportunities in local neighborhoods. The HealthyHoods App enables users to capture aspects of their neighborhood that either support or hinder a healthy lifestyle, providing valuable insights into how the environment influences daily habits.
HealthyHoods
Bicizen is a Citzien Science project where participants may provide observations about cycling, public engagement, and urban mobility through a citizen science platform that aids cities in their transition to a low-carbon mobility future and empowers urban cyclists with helpful trip information.
BiciZen
spotFIRE is a Citizen Science project focusing on forest fire and fuel management to reduce forest fire risk, initiated by BOKU University (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna). The project aims to evaluate the suitability of a mobile phone application inspired by citizen science approaches to measure forest fuel data and collect information on forest fire events for fire risk management in mountainous regions.
spotFIRE
The "Stjärnförsöket" (Star-Spotting) project collects contributions about light pollution in Sweden and in partner countries. By pointing a cardboard tube in all cardinal directions, Citizen Scientists record how many stars they see at their current location. By these values, light pollution can be calculated directly in the Citizen Science app. The project is part of the "Forskar Fredag 2019" initiative, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 program.
Stjärnförsöket
In the Tea Bag Index Citizen Science App, everything is about soil. Various observation categories are ready to participate in, from easy soil classification and testing to the well-known method of burying and weighting teabags to measure the decay rate of plants. Citizen Scientists are welcome to participate worldwide and contribute to improving climate models and soil research.
Tea Bag Index
Fridays for Future see itself as a horizontal, grassroots grassroots movement that acts apolitically and refers to science for the facts. To engage the global population more, this app was developed using SPOTTERON. The aim is to find out how the population perceives the climate crisis and which positive and negative emotions are associated with specific topics related to biodiversity and climate crisis.
FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE - Climate App
Horizon Europe / Horizon 2020 Projects
The IPM-Popillia Horizon 2020 project aims to address the challenge of a new risk to plant health in Europe's agriculture and food safety: the invasion of the Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica. This invasive species was introduced accidentally to mainland Europe in 2014 and can quickly spread by transportation and trade. As a species with a wide range of feeding plants, P. japonica threatens the entire agricultural sector, urban landscapes, and biodiversity in invaded areas.
IPM Popillia | Integrated Pest Management of the Japanese Beetle
EFFECTIVE, a Horizon Europe initiative, targets the emerging threat to the EU's Mediterranean Blue Natural Capital. By leveraging advanced science, technological nature-based solutions, digitalization, and social implication, the project aims to develop a comprehensive scientific knowledge base and practical guidance for the application of Ecosystem-Based Management to promote large-scale marine protected areas establishment in the European seas.
EFFECTIVE | Protection and Restoration Management of Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas
TRANSEATION, funded by Horizon Europe, aims to validate a new level of ecosystem-based management by integrating social implication digitalization and nature-based solutions to safeguard and restore marine ecosystem health and services. The project focuses on demonstrating the effectiveness of marine and coastal hybrid blue-grey infrastructures and developing digital tools for monitoring, analysis, and social involvement, addressing societal challenges and promoting sustainable management practices.
TRANSEATION | Advancements through Hybrid Blue-Grey Infrastructures in Marine and Coastal Areas
In Europe and globally, substantial numbers of young people are at risk of social exclusion. Therefore, there is a pressing need to develop more knowledge and innovation to create inclusive and youth-friendly societies. The Horizon 2020 R&I Project YouCount contributes to these needs by developing 'actionable' knowledge for social inclusion of disadvantaged youths in the European Union and creating better means for social inclusion through citizen social science.
YouCount | Youth Citizen Science
MINAGRIS | Micro and Nanoplastics in Agricultural Soils
StreetMind contributes to a better understanding how environmental factors like urbanicity or climate change influence how individuals across Europe and the world feel, act, and behave. Participants make up their minds with fellow citizens and scientists and share their daily experiences of their surroundings and the environment where they live, work, and interact.
StreetMind
Finished Citizen Science Projects
Fjällkalendern
While visiting Abisko, it's possible to participate in the research project concerning climate change effects in the Arctic and in the Swedish mountains. Interested Citizen Scientists can enter their observations of the mountain slope Nuolja/Njullà in" fenologislinga" ("science path") and thereby contribute to this citizen observatory.
Anslagstavlan
The Citizen Science project Anslagstavlan ("Public boards") collects images from bulletin boards around the world. By taking pictures of messages and describing them, you contribute to the scientific research on communication of a collaborated Community Science project among the University of Gothenburg, the University of Stockholm and the European Researchers' Night. Also, you are sharing a piece of culture with peers around the world.
PoliticsRadar
In the Citizen Science Web-App of "PolitikRadar" pupils from various schools were able to share their views of participatory possibilities in various field of politics. A forum for communication between the research team and the participant was available for further exchange. The results are available at the website of the project here: https://www.politikradar.at/ (german only)
WEVO | Vienna Elections
For the Viennese Elections 2015, the project WEVO was running as a participatory tool with the integration of citizen feedback to politics. Citizens were able to post observations about the daily life in the city of Vienna, categorize and rate their sightings and automatically submit these observations to the various parties available for election.
Surveillance
This community project aims to show the surveillance apparatus we are constantly being watched by. With their entries, the users can collect data on surveillance technology in their surroundings and also raise awareness of the denseness of surveillance surrounding citizens in their day to day lives.
GEFABE
The Top Citizen Science project „Gemeinsam fahren wir besser“ (approx: We drive better together) of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Salzburg aims to collect data on driver assistance systems in collaboration with Austrian drivers via the Community Science App GeFaBe. The goal is to highlight shortcomings and security holes but also good practice in driver assistance systems.
Fågelbär
With this Citizen Science app, it's possible to contribute to the Community Science project "Fägelbär "(English: Birdberry) by reporting observations of birds eating berries. Researchers from the Department of Ecology, Environmental and Botany at the University of Stockholm collect the data to better understand which birds feed on which berries, how they are involved in spreading plants, and to gain knowledge about landscaping and consequences of a warmer climate.
Nature's Calendar Styria (Austria)
Nature's Calendar Styria is another regional Nature's Calendar project which also aims to observe nature with the help of attentive Citizen Scientists. They support environment- and climate research with observations of when plants begin to blossom, trees produce fruit or start throwing off leaves or when animals are active. The collected data also goes into the data collection of the Austrian ZAMG (Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics).
BrushTurkeys
BRUSHTURKEYS is a citizen science project aiming to gather sightings of, and behavioural information on, the Australian Brush-turkey, a native species spreading into suburban areas of Australia. This project is coordinated by The University of Sydney, in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and Taronga Conservation Society.
Nature's Calendar Lower Austria
Nature seems to be on a rollercoaster ride these days. Sometimes there's spring in the middle of winter, then there are cold spells over and over again when it's almost summer. This is why nature- and climate researchers need more and more information about when plants begin to blossom, have fruits or start throwing off their leaves or when animals are active. Entries in the ‚Nature's Calendar' App support the Austrian ZAMG's data collection.
The connections between water and geological underground are diverse and often complex. Using the SIBRA App, citizens can generate reliable data on these topics and thus contribute to a better understanding of these connections. At the Geological Survey of Austria, the data is being combined with other methods of measurement and used, inter alia, in developing models and scenarios that allow for assessing possible effects of extreme weather events, such as heavy precipitation, rapid snowmelt, flooding or draught.
WaldrApp is a Citizen Science project from the University of Vienna aiming to collect ecological information on the whereabouts of "Waldrapps" (English: northern bald ibis). Since these birds are an endangered species, the data collected through the app can help gain essential data for future settling projects.
Nature's Calendar Upper Austria is a regional Nature's Calendar project, which also collects data for the Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG). The data collected can be observed in nature and compared over years, so it's observations like plants starting to blossom, trees yielding fruit or throwing off leaves or animals being active that support scientific research in this project.
National / Regional Citizen Science Apps
MTA - MountainApp wants to inspire people to immerse themselves in landscapes. MTA - MountainApp is a project jointly run by researchers from Switzerland and Georgia. MTA - MountainApp was developed for a transnational research seminar taught at the University of Zurich and the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
MTA MountainApp
The ClimateWatch program is the collaborative brainchild of Earthwatch Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology and the University of Melbourne to understand how changes in temperature and rainfall are affecting the seasonal behaviour of Australia's plants and animals. The ClimateWatch Citizen Science App enables every Australian to be involved in collecting and recording data that will help shape the country’s scientific response to climate change.
ClimateWatch
Our Outdoors is a citizen science project which aims to find out more about what users experience when they are in public spaces such as parks, beaches, canals, and town squares. It was developed by researchers in the Scottish Collaboration of Public Health Research and Practice (SCPHRP) at the University of Edinburgh in partnership with Sustrans, the MRC and citizens.
Our Outdoors
The Big City Birds Citizen Science App aims to learn about five specific bird species and their behavioral adaptations to living in the city. Their whereabouts, behaviors, communal roosts, and nest sites are of interest to researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, the National Australian University, and The University of Sydney. The data collected will help scientists understand these species’ behavior, movement, reproduction, distribution, and habitat use in suburban areas.
Big City Birds
Slip of Evidence
"Crows in the zoo" is a Citizen Science project of the Department for Behavioral and Cognitive Biology of the University of Vienna in cooperation with the Konrad Lorenz Research Station and the Zoo Vienna. The researchers aim to find out more about the species and subspecies of crows that use the Zoo area. All visitors of the Zoo Vienna are welcome to join in!
KraMobil
The MAKENYA | Mammal Atlas Kenya is the first Citizen Science App for an African country running on the SPOTTERON Platform. The Citizen Science Project from the Zoology Department of Kenya's National Museums, enables naturalists to report sightings of mammals during their expeditions. Such data is unavailable, but is valuable for conservation and mapping the distribution of Kenyan mammals.
MAKENYA
The Green Growth Wildlife App intends to address Suriname's existing lack of a centralized system for biodiversity information. With the App, users can efficiently map and analyze the status of Suriname's unique wildlife by gathering data through it.
Green Growth Wildlife
With the Green Growth app everyone can contribute to keeping Suriname the greenest country on earth with 93% forest cover. The data will help to manage the forests of South America. This Citizen Science project aims to create an active community of forest watchers and keep Suriname green.
Green Growth Forests
This project gives interested Citizen Scientists, who range from school pupils to amateur collectors and professional scientists, a basis for identifying new fossil findings, publishing these and thereby completing the network of data from the Earth history in Austria.
Fossilfinder
"EBW" stands for "Ergebnisorientierte Bewirtschaftung" ("result-oriented management") and is a highly specialized app for farmers and agriculturists to increase biodiversity in Austrian agricultural and natural landscapes.
EBW - Result-oriented management
LinkMeToHealth is a community-driven App that provides up-to-date information on local health and wellbeing services. It offers a digital directory of nearby medical services, wellbeing offerings, sporting clubs, and other resources to help users improve their health and quality of life. The App is an initiative by The University of Queensland's Centre for Community Health and Wellbeing, with input from the Springfield community in Queensland, Australia.
LinkMeToHealth
The Mein Baum App helps users care for and protect the trees in their communities by tracking their condition and sharing observations. Trees play a vital role in making cities and villages livable by providing shade, fresh air, and beauty, but they face numerous threats, such as drought, diseases, and urban development.
Mein Baum
CommuniMap invites you to see your local area through fresh eyes - by tuning in to nature, movement, and the daily rhythms that shape your surroundings. Whether you’re walking, wheeling, noticing local trees, or composting at home or elsewhere, CommuniMap provides a space to reflect on what you see and share your observations, contributing to a vibrant community map.
CommuniMap
The Mawas Guardians App is a powerful tool designed to empower the indigenous communities of the Mawas area in Central Kalimantan. It serves as a key resource in their efforts to protect forests and enhance environmental monitoring. Tailored for the Dayak indigenous peoples, the App helps safeguard their land from forest fires and illegal activities, strengthening their role in environmental preservation.
Mawas Guardians
The AgroPionier App is designed to support those working with or interested in niche crops in Switzerland. Developed by the AgroPionier research project of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in collaboration with innovative farmers, the App aims to promote exchange and networking related to the cultivation, processing, and marketing of niche crops in the country.
AgroPionier
NovelEco is a citizen science project funded by the European Research Council, designed to explore how people perceive urban wild spaces. The project focuses on gathering ecological and social data to understand the dynamics of urban ecosystems, particularly those that develop in unexpected or overlooked areas of cities.
NovelEco
The [pane] app can be used to examine the soil of farmland, grassland, or gardens. It compares different plots, crops, or farming methods to see how they affect soil health.
[pane]
In the Roadkill Citizen Science Project from the University of Natural Ressources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Citizen Scientists and researchers collect data about roadkill on streets all around the world. If there`s a high number of roadkill in one spot or a particular species gets killed in the same place a lot, that can help scientists understand how the animals came to die and find solutions for it.
Roadkill
The AmphiBiom project aims to take an important step towards a comprehensive protection concept for the green toad. This involves an Austria-wide inventory and analysis of the habitat preferences of the critically endangered green toad, a typical pioneer species that can quickly colonize newly emerging waters.
AmphiApp
PATIO stands for "Patient Involvement in Oncology" and is a project of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Applied Diagnostics, which deals with citizen involvement after the diagnosis of prostate cancer. In the PatioSpots app, users can enter, find & rate WC facilities, as well as treatment, counseling and important contact points in their surrounding area.
PatioSpots
QuakeWatch Austria - an initiative of ZAMG (Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics) - involves broad sections of the population in earthquake research. The objective is to record earthquake perceptions and effects in Austria more quickly and precisely. The collected data of the Citizen Scientists support a better assessment of the hazard of future earthquakes.
QuakeWatch Austria
Soils for Science is a Citizen Science initiative of The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience. Soils for Science aims to inform the public on the importance of antibiotic resistance in modern healthcare, and soil microbes as a source of next-generation antibiotics. Soils for Science provides the public with free sampling kits to collect soil samples rich in microbial biodiversity (bacteria and fungi).
Soils for Science
Landauf, LandApp BW is an interactive data collection project by LEO BW and the National Archive of Baden-Würtemberg in Germany, EU. The Citizen Science App is focused on contributions about landmarks and historical buildings in the area. The project is including local communities and gather their knowledge about their own regions.
Landauf, LandApp BW
Nature Park Garden is a project of the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. (BUND)).
Gardening is experiencing a renaissance. By avoiding pesticides and peat and using natural cycles in cultivation, biodiversity is promoted. Gardens offer enormous potential for the protection of biodiversity, and this Citizen Science project is here to help.
Nature Park Garden | BUND
Cane toads are relentless invaders. Native to Central America, cane toads were transported to sugar cane growing regions of the world early last century, including Australia, in the hope they would eat and eradicate beetles devastating sugar cane crops. The experiment failed spectacularly. Toads ignored beetles, and instead embarked on an epic global invasion.
Cane Toad Challenge
Nature's Calender Burgenland is the next regional project of the Nature's Calender app family. The Citizen Science app can be used locally for phenology observations in nature and offers all community functions and features for species classfication. By the local character of the Citizen Science app especially schools and educational institutions in the region can participate in an optimal way.
Nature's Calender Burgenland
In collaboration with the Institue for Transport at the University of Life Sciences, Vienna, this Citizen Science App was specially made for kids and teenagers. The Community Science project aspires to understand better how they perceive and rate possible dangers and their surroundings in general.
Was Geht Ab?
"Forschen im Almtal" is the app for a Citizen Science project of the University of Vienna in collaboration with the wildlife park in Grünau in Austria's Almtal. Visitors of the Wildlife park can become Citizen Scientists and observe three bird species (grey goose, raven and northern bald ibis) and help collect data on their behaviour in the Citizen Science App 'Forschen im Almtal'.
Forschen im Almtal
The new citizen participation uses "Citizen Science" in their hometown and nationwide to get User's feedback on places. As a result, citizens are empowered to become active in a city worth living in to collect and share data themselves and to interact with scientists. This enables them to recognize the consequences of sealing, heat, water shortages, and a lack of biodiversity, and generally, how places in their own environment affect us all.
CIVO Citizen Voice
Using the WATERLINX APP will open up new insights into intricate interactions between different species of animals and plants and their environment by exploring the relations between water quality, species compositions in ecosystems, and human actions.
WaterLinx | Citizen Science
PartiCollect is a project by NanoObs and PartiCiTaE that invites Citizen Scientists to take part in mapping fine-particle air pollution in the city by collecting tree bark samples, which are then analyzed for metallic pollutants that are largely linked to car traffic and are known to negatively impact human and plant health.
PartiCollect | Citizen Science
P51 is a project by La Ruta del Clima with the objective to gather knowledge from communities about the effects of climate change on different issues such as infrastructure, territorial changes, human rights, loss of species and territority etc.
P51 | Citizen Science
