#CitizenScience Profile 🌱 Soil Sentinel trains Serbian farmers to sample their own soil, checked against lab data, to guide safe sludge reuse - cutting costs up to 50%. impetus4cs.eu/soil-sentinel/ #soilhealth #conservation

#CitizenScience Reading Club New study: Redlands Coast Koala Watch had 370+ volunteers but most never reported a sighting. Co-design with the community found the fix: simpler apps, real feedback, and social connection. 🐨 doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

UK public wants more science engagement. Researchers want to give it. So why the gap? The Royal Society's new Science for Society report says it's time to make public engagement core to research—not an extra. 🔬 royalsociety.org/news-resourc... #Science #PublicEngagement #Research

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The Royal Society has published the Science for society report exploring the multiple connections between science and the public, and proposes recommendations for how these connections might be streng...

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#CitizenScience - Regenerative Tides: Sailing for Solutions (ReTISS) Citizens in France, the UK & Portugal mapped 77 abandoned fibreglass boats polluting our coasts 🚤🗺️. impetus4cs.eu/regenerative... #Conservation #Biodiversity #MarinePollution

#citizenscience reading club AI is contaminating citizen science databases: fake wildlife photos and "enhanced" images are fooling experts. 🐦 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AI #ParticipatoryScience #biodiversity

The latest @ecsa.ngo is out - packed with new projects, community news and open calls from across the citizen science network 📰✨ mailchi.mp/d2608ea57704... #CitizenScience #ScienceForAll #CitSci #OpenScience

🌞 Aug 12 total solar eclipse! Help scientists: track shadow bands, snap Baily's Beads, measure sky darkness & more. 5 ways to get involved 👇 www.newscientist.com/article/2531... #CitizenScience #SolarEclipse2026

Coventry's River Sowe gets new citizen scientists 🌊 Underrepresented communities monitor water quality & litter with #IMPETUS support. Data ownership stays local. 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/empowering-u... #CitizenScience

#CitizenScience Reading Club New study: giving elementary teachers ready-to-use support materials (not just data protocols) sharply boosts classroom use of citizen science projects. Practical > dense content. doi.org/10.1080/0950... #ScienceEd

#CitizenScience profile FloraAtlas is turning Amazigh communities in Morocco's High Atlas into plant conservationists - using a WhatsApp tool to monitor endemic species. 🌿📱 impetus4cs.eu/floraatlas/ #conservation

#Citizenscience resource 🎙️ New RISE Podcast Ep. 11! Engineer Héloïse V. (Science For Change) discusses co-creation in engaged research & why collaboration matters. 🎧 lnkd.in/eKvG5Upj #RISEPodcast #CoCreation

New paper: #CitizenScience in #Psychology 🧠🔬 Why is it almost absent in cognitive psych? New 2D model + real examples (microdosing, air pollution, school studies) show how to fix the "researcher-subject paradox." 🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s13428-026-03019-8

#CitizenScience Profile - Empowering older adults Older adults as co-researchers, not subjects. 59 conversations on ageing, loss & belonging are reshaping how we see vulnerability in later life. impetus4cs.eu/empowering-o... #inclusion #citsci #IMPETUS4CS

Here is the second episode of the ECS #podcast Is participation in citizen science a choice? a responsibility? a privilege? why people bother participating in #cs? Listen to the episode in the podcast hub citizenscience.eu/ecsa/ecs-pod... or on ECSA's YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmTw...

The IMPETUS toolkit is here in 3 formats! 🎉 🔍 Search online: impetus4cs.eu/toolkit/#che... 📄 PDF: zenodo.org/uploads/2135... 📖 Booklet: impetus4cs.eu/wp-content/u... #citsci #toolkit

#CitizenScience Profile 🌱 Living Soils Lab (Paris): residents test urban soil health + use art therapy to turn eco-anxiety into action. Soil care meets people care. 🎨 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/living-soils... #Citsci #soilhealth

The final ECS Project Lighthouse newsletter is out 📰✨ Reflecting on 4 years of citizen science networks & what's next for #CitSci in Europe. Read here 👇 us20.campaign-archive.com?u=43994d556f... #citizenscience #legacy

New Interagency Citizen Science Toolkit from Schoodic Institute at Acadia NP! 90 pages on building project teams, collecting data & sharing results on public lands. 📊 lnkd.in/e3RGmwm8 #citsci #CitizenScience #data

📊 Check out the impacts of our third and final cohort of #citizenscience initiatives of the IMPETUS accelerator programme, focused on the challenges of #CircularCommunities and #Fair and #Just Societies. Click Here 👇 impetus4cs.eu/impetuss-imp... 👇 #citsci #IMPETUS4CS

🌱♻️ Can compost teach kids soil science & wellbeing? Novi Sad students build compost systems, test soil & study how gardening boosts mood. #IMPETUS #CitSci 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/from-waste-t...

Four years. 129 projects. Countless voices. 🌍 As IMPETUS comes to a close, we reflect on our citizen science journey with @ecs.ngo & the EU Commission. Watch now 👇 #citizenscience #citsci youtu.be/E1kh0E5cv4s

IMPETUS and ECS: A Four-Year Check-In on Citizen Science

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#citizenscience reading club Citizen science isn't just participation — it's driving real policy change & economic value. Read Beyond Participation to see how. zenodo.org/records/2008... #citsci #OpenScience #impact #policy #economic

Our "final" IMPETUS event was Ars Electronica 2025 - but 10 months of impact followed! We teamed up with @ecs.ngo for two June 2026 events celebrating our citizen science legacy 👇 impetus4cs.eu/the-final-im... #citizenscience #citsci #IMPETUS4CS

That's a wrap on IMPETUS! 🎉 Our #citizenscience journey continues through the projects we supported. Thank you to this incredible #citsci community. You can learn all about our story on our site 👇 impetus4cs.eu

🌐 IMPETUS Policy Briefs - now in 5 languages! 🇹🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸🇵🇹 Breaking down #CitizenScience in #AI, #Data, #SSH, #WaterManagement & #Inclusion - accessible to more people than ever. 👉 impetus4cs.eu/about/impetu...

#Citizenscience Profile - NEYSA 90 student citizen scientists across Türkiye are mapping food insecurity on campus — turning lived experience into evidence & policy change. 🍽️ impetus4cs.eu/nourishing-e... #foodsecurity #IMPETUS

🛠️ The IMPETUS Toolkit is here! A practical, field-tested resource for citizen science — built on 129 projects, real challenges, and hard-learnt lessons. Explore it now 👇 impetus4cs.eu/toolkit/ #citizenscience #impact #projectdesign #projectmanagement

#Citizenscience Reading Club Citizen science data can fill gaps in official datasets & drive better local decisions — but only with the right governance & infrastructure in place. zenodo.org/records/1014... #citsci #OpenData

🌍#Citizenscience Profile How does Spain really talk about climate change? The Observatory of Climate Narratives maps citizen stories to turn public sentiment into real climate action. impetus4cs.eu/observatory-... #Citsci #ClimateAction

#Citizenscience Resource Trust in facts and debate is vital. Disinformation undermines this. Science helps evidence and policy. See REA: rea.ec.europa.eu/science-demo... #democracy #science