Working Group 4 - Enhance the role of CS for civil society

WG4 ‘Enhance the role of CS for civil society’ focuses on the volunteers’ side of citizen science and the outcomes/benefits of CS projects for various stakeholders. The mission for this WG is massive  while it currently counts 85 members with various interests in citizen science. To capture effectively the interests of its members, the developments in the field  and effectively manage the work that it currently takes place we have introduced the following themes:

1. Stakeholder Mapping - contact: Artemis Skarlatidou, a [dot] skarlatidou [at] ucl [dot] ac [dot] uk
2. Meta-analysis approach for identification of volunteers motivations - contact: Assaf Shwartz, shwartza [at] tx [dot] technion [dot] ac [dot] il
3. Volunteers aims and needs from CS technologies - contact: Artemis Skarlatidou, a [dot] skarlatidou [at] ucl [dot] ac [dot] uk
4. Degrees of Public Participation in Scientific Research (PPSR), Outputs and Outcomes - contact: Marisa Ponti, marisa [dot] point [at] ait [dot] gu [dot] se
5. Understand the role of CS for social innovation - contact: Egle Butkeviciene, egle [dot] butkeviciene [at] ktu [dot] lt

If you are interested in any of the themes please get in touch with us. We are also looking at expanding these themes, so if you have to propose one which fits the interests of WG4 please get in touch with Artemis Skarlatidou: a [dot] skarlatidou [at] ucl [dot] ac [dot] uk and Loreta Tauginiene: lotaugi [at] mruni [dot] eu