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Citizen Science Poster: Co-use Program on SPOTTERON

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By stepping over the ten-year mark, SPOTTERON extends its capabilities and introduces a Co-Use Program. For the European Citizen Science Association Conference 2026, our design team crafted a poster to bring insights of the new Co-Use Program and the respective Citizen Science Apps running on the Platform.   Download PDF File Here Si...
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InsectAI - Annual Meeting in Niš, Serbia

InsectAI - Annual Meeting in Niš, Serbia
This year's InsectAI COST Action annual meeting took place at the Science and Technology Park in Niš, Serbia, on 22nd-25th April. The conference opened with a very warm welcome from the conference organizers of InsectAI and the hosts at the Science and Technology Park. As a large university city in south Serbia, Niš has a particularly strong footho...
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ECSA Conference 2026 – Our Perspective as Citizen Scientists

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This year's ECSA Conference 2026 has concluded. We spent two full days traveling across half of Europe—by train, bus, and ferry—to reach northern Finland, more precisely the beautifully snow-covered city of Oulu. There, we experienced just how white snow can be and perhaps also why Finns—surrounded by forests, clean air, the frozen Baltic...
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Science Communication and Citizen Science: Vademecum - a Handbook for the IPM-Popillia Horizon 2020 Project

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Under the title "Integrated Pest Management of the invasive Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica", a Horizon 2020 project took place from 2020 to 2024, looking at the impact of invasive beetle species on the plant health. Although the project has successfully been concluded, the results are still actively disseminated, and now also available in a vis...
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We Wish You Joyful Holidays & an Amazing Year of Citizen Science to come!

We Wish You Joyful Holidays & an Amazing Year of Citizen Science to come!
The year 2025 is coming to a close, and as a tradition, to say a big "Thank you" from the SPOTTERON team, we have designed a special hand-crafted Holiday Card for you just before the winter holidays. For this year's theme of our Holiday Card, we are diving into the microcosmos and reflecting on how atoms join together to create the molecules, from ...
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Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026 - 2027 Online, Many Calls Launching Early Spring in 2026

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The 2026-2027 Horizon Europe Work Programme has recently been adopted by the European Commission and is the last Work Programme of the 2021 - 2027 period. Although many calls will open for submission only early next year, several opportunities of Info Days are available and we have listed those under our Conference & Funding section, here. The ...
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The 2026/2027 Horizon Europe Work Programmes - Draft Versions Publicly Available and Includes Public Engagement & Citizen Science

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When one project calendar year is turning to the end soon, another is on the horizon! The Horizon Europe Work Programmes for 2026-2027 are in the making and for the first time the draft versions are publicly available. We took a look at the recent draft documents which are available under the European Commission's Comitology Register. In this short...
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The Horizon Europe Cluster HORIZON-CL6-2025-01 has opened! First calls for proposals & forming of consortiums has started...

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Horizon Europe is the scientific successor to the Horizon 2020 research framework programme of the European Union, under the leadership of the European Commission. Enhancing research in the fields of climate change, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN, and EU competitiveness are the main goals of Horizon Europe. Furthermore, Horizon ...
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New Project Design for the Horizon Europe TRANSEATION Project, Marine Science

New Project Design for the Horizon Europe TRANSEATION Project, Marine Science
A few months ago, we at SPOTTERON created beside the COSEA Citizen Science App a new Project Design for TRANSEATION, a marine science project funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe programme. The main goal of the TRANSEATION project is to show how man-made structures can effectively protect the health of marine ecosystems. These...
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Art & Citizen Science

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As Citizen Scientists, we explore a wide range of species and observe all kinds of perceivable phenomena. These explorations lead to meaningful experiences—experiences that can inspire and shape artistic expression: Art & (Citizen) Science? The connection between experience and art is at the heart of a theory proposed by philosop...
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Project Activity System for Citizen Science Apps

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In many Citizen Science projects, there are geographical location-related events or activities to interact with as a participant. Such activities can, for example, be simply a workshop taking place or something more permanent like an exhibition, a nature trail, or a project-related area that needs highlighting. With the integrated system called "Pr...
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Hey, we made it full circle! Have some wonderful winter holidays and see you in 2025!

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The year 2024 is coming to a close, and soon we are off for the winter holidays! It was an exciting year, new technologies have been developed and integrated, new Horizon Europe projects rolling on, new team members joining SPOTTERON and so many new Citizen Science Apps and projects starting on the platform. As it is tradition, we design ...
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NatureSpots Citizen Science App Spotlighted in Podcast Episode “Citizen Science and Biodiversity” (Amsterdamse Bos, Athena Institute)

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How do science, citizen science, and nature reinforce each other to address social issues? This key topic was the focus of a podcast recorded last summer by Amsterdamse Bos (Amsterdam Forest) and the Athena Institute, a research institute of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Last week, the podcast was published, and given the interesting insig...
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Biodiversity in Urban Space - Ars Electronica Festival 2024

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Is it strange to live still optimistically and in hope in times of the polycrisis? This question was posed at this year's Ars Electronica Festival in Linz with the theme HOPE. We attended the festival in early September, and in this blog, we'll briefly discuss the workshop "Plant Life on the POSTCITY Roof" led by botanist Friedrich Schwarz. Togethe...
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Citizen Science at the Ars Electronica Festival 2023 - the European Union Prize for Citizen Science

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Last weekend marked a historic moment for Citizen Science in Europe. The first-ever European Union Prize for Citizen Science was awarded on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023 at this year's Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. The theme of the event was "Who owns the truth?" - a question that is particularly relevant for Citizen Science. We were on-site and...
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Discover biodiversity — explore biodiversity: The new Citizen Science Game for the Natural History Museum NHM in Vienna, Austria

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While we made our preparations for the European Citizen Science Association ECSA conference in Vienna, we had another task on our to-do list: let's make a game for the public day in the museum! But it is not any kind of game, it is the (probably) the largest computer game in Austria! In the Natural History Museum in Vienna, there is the "Deck ...
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Thank you for all the Citizen Science in 2023!

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The year 2023 is slowly coming to an end, but before everyone goes into the well-deserved holidays, here is a quick update about SPOTTERON, new upcoming features, and also a nice season card handcrafted for you. But to start off with the most important thing: thank you very much for bringing so many interesting projects and features to SPOTTERON th...
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2x Falling Walls Global Call Finalist

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Recently the Falling Walls Global Call selected 50 finalists for the best science engagement projects from around the world! Among them are two Citizen Science projects whose Apps run on the SPOTTERON platform - YouCount, funded by Horizon Europe and Soils for Science from the University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience. As pa...
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Thank you for all the Citizen Science 2022!

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As the year comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude for all the partnerships and support in 2022. A wide range of new exciting projects has helped to expand the platform for improving the impact and quality of Citizen Science Apps. Our collaborations with stakeholders, institutions, and project partners from ...
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Quo vadis, Twitter? - A Statement on the current situation on Twitter

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As you may know, the ownership of Twitter has changed. Since then, the dynamic has spun increasingly out of control on that social platform. The new owner first changes core moderation policies to allow "free speech" (which means more radicalism in a social network) while censoring everything he dislikes. Secondly, there is chaos. The new owner ins...
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    Ocean Decade - a global community working together to safeguard Our Oceans and Seas. COSEA App and CoastSnap App running on the SPOTTERON Platform are part of this movement and received endorsement by the Ocean Decade community! Explore more about community engagement for supporting aquatic ecosystems in our recent Citizen Science blog

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