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Society as e-Infrastructure through technology, innovation and creativity

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It is based on:

Scientific activities in which citizens participate in data collection, analysis and dissemination;

A voluntary, conscious and informed participation of thousands of citizens (with and without advanced training):

Citizens participate actively using their intellectual skills, resources

and time.

Citizens provide their own technological resources to help processing data.

Citizen scientists are those who dedicate their intellectual skills and/or their technological resources to find results with social utility.

ACTIVE

PASSIVE

CITIZEN SCIENCE

CITIZEN SCIENCE

• Acquisition of new skills and knowledge in Science and Technology field.• Development of critical thinking.• Participation in real research projects.• Acquisition of a real and accurate perception of Science and its practice.• Significant contribution for the advance of Science and Technology.

The Citizen Scientist is the link between Science and Society.

On the other hand, the researcher has a team of volunteers that will help him generating useful data which would be more costly and time-consuming to obtain without the help of a large number of people involved.

WHAT ADVANTAGES FOR THE CITIZEN SCIENTIST?

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION PASSIVE PARTICIPATION

CITIZEN SCIENCE

CITIZEN SCIENCE

Volunteer Computing

Volunteer Sensing Volunteer Thinking

Volunteer Experiments

CITIZEN SCIENCE

VOLUNTEER COMPUTING

CITIZEN SCIENCE

VOLUNTEER EXPERIMENTS

CITIZEN SCIENCE

VOLUNTEER SENSING

CITIZEN SCIENCE

VOLUNTEER THINKING

CITIZEN SCIENCE

Participatory Activities

Participatory Experiments

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• Funded by the European Commission (7th Framework Programme).

• Will coordinate all agents involved in the citizen science process, setting the basis for this new open science paradigm.

• Will promote the usage of science infrastructures composed of dedicated and external resources, including professional and amateur scientists.

• Will set-up a network where infrastructure providers and researchers will recruit volunteers from a general public to perform science at home.

THE PROJECT

To create a link between Research and Society with benefits to both parts.

• To increase the participation of a large public, companies and organizations in Citizen Science;

• To generate positive contributions for advanced research;

• To foster cooperation and synergies between similar projects;

• To analyze the real impact of Citizen Science on participants;

MAIN GOALS

THE PROJECT

THE WHITE BOOK OF CITIZEN SCIENCE

THE PROJECT

To generate knowledge that can influence EU politics

• Defining Citizen Science and presenting the results of public involvement in Citizen Science projects.

• Collecting and sharing the best practices and recommendations for the implementation of Citizen Science projects in EU.

BE PART OF IT! Contribute at http://bit.do/greenpaper_cs

Zaragoza University, SpainScience Museum of the University of Coimbra, Portugal

University of Coimbra, PortugalFederal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

Tecnara, SpainCentre for Social Innovation – ZSI, Austria

PARTNERS

THE PROJECT

www.socientize.euWEBSITE

THE PROJECT

EXPERIMENTSSOCIENTIZE

Saving Energy@home

• Project on Linguistics (semantic analysis);

• To understand heuristics we exploit to efficiently manage our structure of concepts;

• To create a semantic map where volunteers define the distance between words;

• A video game where volunteers are asked to build a path of intermediate words that connect a given Source and a Target;

• Results will be important for web semantics, web mining, text mining as well as the business world with lots of applications being based on semantic analysis.

http://bit.do/mindpaths

THE APP

http://bit.do/mindpaths

• Project on Astronomy and Astrophysics;

• To study the phenomena occurring on the surface of the Sun and to understand the solar activity and solar cycle;

• A partnership with the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Coimbra;

• Analysis of 15,000 spectroheliograms (images of the Sun) of an asset of 87 years of daily observations, started in 1926;

• Volunteers will count sunspots and sunspots groups using an application specially developed to the purpose;

• The study of sunspots, besides being interesting itself, presents an important tool to understand much of what happens on the Earth climate.

http://bit.do/sun4all

THE APP

http://bit.do/sun4all

EXPERIMENTSSOCIENTIZE

Saving Energy@home

THE EXPERIENCE

• Project for the study of cell death, known as apoptosis, to be used in treatments for diseases like Cancer;

• Identification of chemical compounds inductive of that cell death in tumoral cells (HeLa cells are used);

• Analysis of cell images obtained with fluorescence microscopy;

• By compiling and adding answers to questions like "How many cells release cell content?" or "How many cells with clustered mitochondria?" volunteers will help researchers to know in every moment what is happening in each cell culture.

Head Researcher José Villar

HeLa Cells

http://bit.do/cellspotting

THE APP

http://bit.do/cellspotting

ONLINE EVALUATION

TEACHERShttp://bit.do/qteacher

STUDENTShttp://bit.do/qstudent

CONTACT US

www.socientize.eu /Socientize-Project @SOCIENTIZE http://bit.do/linkedin_cs

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