GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Projects focused on public engagement, responsible research and innovation, and citizen science, as well as of national and regional initiatives, and should aim to provide a seamless transition between previous supporting actions and this new action.

Efforts should be made to evaluate the response to the open calls, capture the benefits arising from the citizen science activities it kick-starts and develop intelligence about factors that support or hinder the sustainability of successful citizen science initiatives. The action should prepare and organise a high-profile award ceremony and showcase the breadth and scope of excellent citizen science activities taking place across the European Union. The action should consider citizen science across all areas of research and innovation and take into account all of the different forms of participation that citizen science can entail without prejudice to any. Significant efforts should be made to be inclusive in terms of geography, gender, ethnicity, disability, age, socio-economic background etc. The action should develop policy recommendations, policy briefs, and other research and innovation results/outputs and disseminate its experiences and learnings widely. The action should also set up a comprehensive communication strategy around the prize and decide on the award categories, setup the panel of experts that will evaluate the contestants, and develop the conditions for participation and the award criteria that enable identification of excellent/best-in-class examples of citizen science.