The meeting was a good start for discussing not only the objectives and closest tasks to be conducted by the partners but also the interrelations between the tasks and the consortium partners.
Co-coordinated by Ibercivis and ECSA, the consortium launched an ambitious initiative to lay a strong foundation for the future of citizen science in Europe. The event brought together partners from eight European countries: Spain, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Italy, Serbia, Lithuania, and Switzerland.
During the meeting, Katharina Buse, the representative of the European Commission and designated Project Officer, addressed questions regarding project management, financial and dissemination management. Fermín Serrano, the project coordinator from Ibercivis, reminded the initiation of the project when the consortium quickly evolved with strong support from key actors in citizen science. The potential of the citizens in the field is underestimated, and RIECS-Concept wants to challenge it. In the project, a common research infrastructure will be conceptualised, aiming to make citizen science more sustainable.
OeAD, represented in the meeting by Petra Siegele and Elisabeth Schauermann, contributes expertise in promoting cooperations between educational systems and science as well as in coordinating funding instruments for citizen science.
RIECS-Concept is funded by the call HORIZON-INFRA-2024-DEV-01-01 - Research infrastructure concept development which supports the development of new concepts for the next generation of research infrastructures of the European interest.
The European Union’s HORIZON EUROPE Research and Innovation programme funded the project under grant agreement No. 101188210.
