ECSA’s Agri-food Wοrking Group held its first face-to-face meeting in Paris on June 28-29, 2023. This 2-day meeting was hosted by the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). The meeting was attended by 14 members of the Agri-food WG who engaged in fruitful discussions on citizen science in the agri-food sector.
What does it mean to be an ECSA member? In our new video and leaflet, we illustrate ECSA’s vision and mission, the role of citizen science in society, and how joining ECSA allows you to be part of a community that makes a meaningful impact through science.
ECSA is celebrating the 2022 International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This is promoted every year by UNESCO. Together with the ECSA Storytelling and Other Arts Working Group, we will share stories from many people (from all genders) from our community, who are particularly engaged in this field. One day a year is...
A new programme, Ocean Cities, has been endorsed under the UN’s Ocean Decade programme. Ocean Cities is an international network that will boost sustainable ocean cities toward 2030. “Resilience of coastal cities in the face of climate change is a critical challenge for decades to come,” said Dr Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental...
A new open-access book, ‘The Science of Citizen Science’, is now available. Published by Springer, it features contributions from more than 100 authors, including several ECSA staff and members. “This book is a wonderful conclusion of four years of intensive exchange within a European research network on citizen science,” says Dr Katrin Vohland, Director General...
