The OeAD brings researchers and citizen scientists together for joint research!

To ensure that the Citizen Science Award projects find research-enthusiastic school classes to participate in, the OeAD-Centre for Citizen Science organises a teacher training course for teachers from all over Austria and from all school levels and types every year before the start of the co-research period. A total of 30 teachers took part in this year's training course on 13 March.

The aim was to bring the researchers into contact with the teachers and to familiarise them with the co-research activities so that the involvement of the pupils in the research projects is successful.

The ‘Citizen Science’ approach was first introduced and then the ‘Citizen Science Award’ research competition was presented in detail as a practical way of bringing Citizen Science into the classroom. The participating teachers then had the opportunity to dive deeper into the individual projects in several breakout sessions and find out in detail about the project content and research questions, the tasks of the citizen scientists and the co-research activities.

Researchers who would like to take part in the Citizen Science Award 2026 with their citizen science projects can submit their projects from mid-September 2025. More information will soon be available HERE.