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The Swedish National Space Agency, SNSA, is a central governmental agency under the Ministry of Education and Research. SNSA is responsible for national and international activities relating to space and remote sensing, primarily research and development.

Sweden, along with many other countries, is facing a gradual decrease in the number of young people who choose to study science and engineering. With the intention to bring about a change, five national resource centers for mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and technology education have been established by the government.
The National Resource Centre for Physics Education aims to be a resource for teachers from preschool to upper secondary school. The aim is to inspire and stimulate the development of physics education and to allow teachers to further studies of physics.

Formas is a government research council for sustainable development in Sweden. They fund research and innovation, develop strategies, perform analyses, and conduct evaluations. Their areas of activity include the environment, agricultural sciences, and spatial planning. They do specific environmental studies that aim to make it easier for Sweden to achieve their ecological goals.

Lund University is the most popular University of Sweden. It was founded in 1666 and is ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has 40,000 students and 7,400 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. "We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition."

A new SPOTTERON version is here! 2.6.0 includes User Roles, Flagging and DataDownload and is ready to be used by all Citizen Science Apps on the platform. Check out the new blog entry in our Citizen Science Blog.

We are happy to announce the release of the new SPOTTERON version 2.6.0! The next SPOTTERON Update brings 3 new extension, available for all Citizen Science apps running on the SPOTTERON platform. In the following blog entry we are going to explain these new features and their function.

The new SPOTTERON version 2.6.0 is ready & brings two new exciting features to increase Data Quality in Citizen Science apps for all projects on the SPOTTERON Platform: User roles & Data flagging.

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.

On the 25th of January 2019 the Vienna City Hall hosted the Vienna Ball of Sciences for the 5th time, held under the motto: “Waltz and Science". As Citizen Scientists from SPOTTERON it was a great pleasure, that we had been invited to film the event just as we did the year before.

Turning off the lights: read all about the new "Night mode" extension for Citizen Science apps with a focus on night time observations like in astronomy or nocturnal species monitoring in our new blog post here...