Citizen Science
The CHARM-EU Alliance is leading citizen science training initiatives across European universities. These initiatives aim to engage the public in scientific research by incorporating the perspectives and firsthand knowledge of diverse communities, fostering collaboration between scientists and citizens, and addressing societal challenges with transdisciplinary research.
Find here resources and training courses to enable you to contribute to meaningful scientific discoveries and innovations.
Winter School on Citizen Science
CHARM-EU organises intensive training courses on Citizen Science through interactive hands-on sessions and guided discussions for early career researchers. Stay tuned for future editions!
2026 Citizen Science winter school
Citizen Science in Action: Skills, Tools, and Community Engagement for Early-Career Researchers
Held in Barcelona from the 4th to the 6th of February, the course gathered PhD students from the CHARM-EU institutions to work with interactive workshops and engage with fellow researchers working on research projects involving communities, citizens and societal stakeholders.
Check out the programme of the 2026 edition and find out how it went in the following article.
CHARM-ON on citizen science
The CHARM-ON podcast dedicated its third episode to citizen science, inviting researchers from CHARM-EU institutions to talk about their projects and how they involved citizenship and communities to them. We invite you to listen to the episode at the following link.
TRAINING INITIATIVES
The University of Barcelona (UB) undertook an institutional pilot of Citizen Science training in 2023, within the context of TORCH, the project to develop the R&I agenda in CHARM-EU, to address the training gap for scientists engaging in citizen science.
UB developed an institutional website focused on Citizen Science. This webpage compiles several citizen science projects conducted at UB. Six infographics were also prepared to explain the steps to create a citizen science project.
You can read more about the institutional pilot and the 2023 training in the following article.