Science Communication and Citizen Science: Vademecum - a Handbook for the IPM-Popillia Horizon 2020 Project
Science Communication and Citizen Science: Vademecum - a Handbook for the IPM-Popillia Horizon 2020 Project

Under the title, 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 visually appealing and comprehensive guide co-authored and designed by the SPOTTERON team. In this short blog, we will introduce the Vademecum regarding Popillia japonica, including the invasive species monitoring for national

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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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This was the ECSA Citizen Science Conference 2022 in Berlin

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From the 5th to the 8th of October, the ECSA Citizen Science Conference 2022 took place in Berlin under the motto "Citizen Science for Planetary Health."We have been attending this fantastic bi-annual event (for sure) and spent four days in Germany's capital to learn more about citizen science and various approaches, definitions, and projects while...

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The ECSA European Citizen Science Conference 2022 takes place in October in Berlin - Meet us there!

Meet us at the ECSA Citizen Science Conference 2022

 The ECSA European Citizen Science Conference is Europe's major meeting point every two years for actors and stakeholders in Citizen Science. In 2022, it takes place in Berlin, Germany, and we look forward to traveling to the North of Europe for Citizen Science! This year's conference motto, "Citizen Science for Planetary Health" reflects the ...

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ECSA 2020: Designing a citizen science project? Let’s explore technology design & implementation!

ECSA 2020: Designing a citizen science project? Let’s explore technology design & implementation!

On this year's ECSA Citizen Science conference, we have been invited to hold a workshop on technology and the practice of design for Citizen Science. Since the conference moved completely online (read more about our experiences here in the Blog), we filled the session together with Jessie L. Oliver, who shared her research on how to design fun citizen science tech to find a sneaky Australia bird species (i.e. Eastern bristlebirds). Citizen Science is used and what technology implementation

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some thoughts on Cititzen Science: it needs a system

some thoughts on Cititzen Science: it needs a system

Currently in Barcelona, Spain, the yearly European Citizen Science Association summit is taking place. As not only an interested person in science and ecology but also as founder of SPOTTERON, events like this always result in following the various posts, tweets and streams online the whole days. At #ecsabcn In her keynote, Libby Hepborn from the Australian Citizen Science Association mentioned a something, which immediatly grabbed my attention.

@CSAustria also tweeted that statement:
"Libby

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#ECSA2016 and a new SPOTTERON project

#ECSA2016 and a new SPOTTERON project

Throwback Thursday for #ECSA2016,
and there are new projects in SPOTTERON!

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Let's meet up for Citizen Science! SPOTTERON at the ECSA Conference 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland

Let's meet up for Citizen Science! SPOTTERON at the ECSA Conference 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland

From 3rd to 5th of June 2018, the ECSA Conference 2018 and the general assembly of the European Citizen Science Association takes place in Geneva, Switzerland. As members of ECSA and platform for Citizen Science Apps we for sure take part during the whole time.

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ECSA 2018 - from the Conference about Citizen Science in Geneva, Switzerland

ECSA 2018 - from the Conference about Citizen Science in Geneva, Switzerland

Every two years, a big conference about Citizen Science takes place in an European Country - this time we travelled to Geneva in Switzerland, where the ECSA 2018 was happening.

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ECSA European Citizen Science Contest: Winner Announcement

ECSA European Citizen Science Contest: Winner Announcement

Thanks for the many interesting submissions and your paticipation in the SPOTTERON Citizen Science contest for getting a free App in Europe! We are finally able to announce the winner (and a follow up project as second place) here on our Citizen Science blog:

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Our ECSA 2020 Citizen Science Conference Experience - going virtual!

Our ECSA 2020 Citizen Science Conference Experience - going virtual!

From 6th to 10th of September, the European Citizen Science Conference ECSA 2020 took place in the virtual space. Since we have been designing and developing the SPOTTERON Citizen Science platform for apps and interactive toolkits since 2014 already, it was not our first conference on Citizen Science - at least for Philipp, who is quite a regular in terms of visiting conferences. But this year, things rarely have been normal, and so the virtual event of ECSA 2020 was something new to all of us

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