ScienceUs Podcast

Welcome to a new episode of the ScienceUs Podcast, a series that explores how collaboration between citizens and researchers helps tackle real-world challenges. In this episode, we speak with Sara Casas from the Alleviating Energy Poverty in Vulnerable Households project and María Caso from The Future is Climate . Both are participants in the ScienceUs Upscale Academy, a programme designed to supp...

Welcome to a new episode of the ScienceUs Podcast, a series that explores how everyday observations become valuable data, and how collaboration between citizens and researchers helps tackle real-world challenges. In the second part of our conversation on Data Management, we continue our discussion with Luca Schirru, Karen Soacha Godoy, and Fabien Borget to explore the ethical, legal, and governanc...

Welcome to a special two-part edition of the ScienceUs Podcast on data management in citizen science. In this series, we explore how everyday observations become valuable data, and how collaboration between citizens and researchers helps tackle real-world challenges. In this first episode, we speak with Luca Schirru, Research Coordinator at the Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance (CKG), Governan...

Welcome to a new episode of The ScienceUs Podcast, a series that explores how collaboration between citizens and researchers helps tackle real-world challenges. In this episode, we speak with Annelies Duerinckx, coordinator of Scivil, the Flemish knowledge centre for citizen science in Belgium. Scivil works to connect citizens, researchers, organisations, and policymakers by providing guidance, to...

Welcome to a new episode of The ScienceUs Podcast, a series that explores how collaboration between citizens and researchers helps tackle real-world challenges. In this episode, we speak with Gerid Hager and Todd Harwell about Urban ReLeaf, a project exploring how cities can become more resilient in the face of rising temperatures, heatwaves, and air pollution. By combining citizen observations an...

Welcome to a new episode of The ScienceUs Podcast, a series that explores how collaboration between citizens and researchers helps tackle real-world challenges. In this episode, we speak with Kris Vanherle, co-founder and CEO of Telraam, a citizen science project that transforms everyday streets into sources of valuable data. Using small sensors placed in residents’ windows, Telraam enables commun...

Welcome to a new episode of The ScienceUs Podcast, a series that explores how everyday observations become valuable data, and how collaboration between citizens and researchers helps tackle real-world challenges. In this episode, we speak with Karen Verstraelen about Citizens4Water, a global repository of citizen science initiatives on fresh water, and it aims to foster collaboration by creating a...

Small streams often go unnoticed, but they tell us a lot about the health of entire ecosystems. FLOW is a Germany-wide citizen science project that brings together scientists and local communities to monitor the condition of these freshwater systems. Led by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the project trains v...

Welcome to a new episode of The ScienceUs Podcast, a series that explores how collaboration between citizens and researchers helps tackle real-world challenges. In this episode, we speak with Ana Belén Cristóbal, project manager at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and coordinator of AURORA, a Horizon 2020 citizen science project that empowers communities across Europe to take an active role in...

Welcome to a new episode of The ScienceUs Podcast, a series that explores how everyday observations become valuable data, and how collaboration between citizens and researchers helps tackle real-world challenges. In this episode, we speak with Lucrina Ștefănescu about EcoVoce, a citizen science project in Romania that empowered local communities to document and monitor environmental issues in form...

Welcome to the first episode of The ScienceUs Podcast , a series that explores how everyday observations become valuable data, and how collaboration between citizens and researchers helps tackle real-world challenges. In this episode, we speak with Teije Terhost from the Thermo-staat project, an innovative citizen science initiative that engages residents in monitoring heat in their homes. As clim...