Citizen Science

Needs

Engaging

Process

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Whether as an intelligent crowd or as local experts, citizens are the most important building blocks of the past, and the future of cultural heritage.

Understanding the real needs

Engaging citizens in scientific processes requires care and respect for people’s time and expectations. For this the citizen science activity in SINCERE will follow an incremental step-by-step process.

We will first explore exactly which scientific questions can be answered with the help of citizens. And on the other hand, what are the real needs on the ground that can benefit from the expected scientific results?

Engaging the citizens

Having defined the scientific questions, we will perform a mapping of expected skills, available tools, and meaningful levels of engagement, ranging from crowdsourcing of information, data and observations, participation in behavioural studies, and co-creation of heritage-aware ecological standards and adaptive reuse processes.

Designing the process

Citizen science activities will take place in standard workshops formats, designed in a way to be easily replicable and act as seeds for long-term processes.

The main frame which will be used for this purpose is the ECOWEEK event series, created in 2005 with the passion to change people's habits and developed programs in 17 countries and a growing network of partners in 56 countries.