GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

This action should offer extensive in situ brokering, skills, training, and capacity building services to citizen science practitioners, civil society, public authorities, businesses/SMEs, formal and informal education establishments, and research funding and performing organisations, with a view to raising their awareness, knowledge and skills to collaborate with, support, and implement citizen science. The action should become a key interlocutor between citizen science initiatives and existing thematic databases and infrastructures. It should support – and ‘connect the dots’ between – existing efforts to make citizen science data FAIR and open, make new efforts to liaise between citizen science and infrastructures where they are needed, identify unmet needs, and develop policy recommendations. Overall the action should move citizen science towards open science as its modus operandi.

Efforts should be in order to reduce disparities in awareness and actual practice of citizen science across disciplines in the ERA. Moreover, significant efforts should be made to be inclusive in citizens’ involvement in terms of geography, gender, ethnicity, disability, age, socio-economic background etc.