Climate agents: Researching climate change together!

The ‘Climate Agents’ project invites pupils, teachers and other interested parties to actively participate in climate change research as citizen scientists. Under the motto ‘There is no planet B’, they work together with researchers from the fields of geoinformatics, education and art at IT:U and the University of Teacher Education Linz to investigate how climate change is making itself felt in their own living environment - f.e. through flooding, melting ski slopes or crop failures.

The participating citizen scientists decide themselves which topics they want to investigate. From personal observations, their own measurements, social media posts or official climate data, the project creates a diverse database that is jointly analysed, visualised and presented creatively and vividly in so-called ‘story maps’. In order to enable continuous data collection, an open ‘Climate Agents App’ is also being developed as part of the project, which will serve as a collection point, discussion platform and learning tool. The collected contributions can also be experienced on an interactive web map at the Ars Electronica Centre in Linz.

With the citizen science approach in the project, pupils and all participants become real climate ambassadors and share their findings with society. Would you also like to get involved in the fight against climate change? Then you can become part of the Sparkling Science project now!

Further information on the project