Working groups

WG for quality critera (ongoing)At the annual platform meeting of Österreich forscht on 1 March 2017, the partners decided to set up a working group on quality criteria for citizen science projects. This became necessary because, due to new funding programmes and the level of awareness of citizen science that has been achieved in the meantime, more and more projects consider themselves as citizen science, which also requested to be included in Österreich forscht. Up to this point, projects...

Head: Florian Heigl, Daniel Dörler and Ronald WürflingerGoal: The aim of this working group was to develop a strategy including an action plan for the development of the Citizen Science Network Austria and the associated platform Österreich forscht until 2027.During the platform meeting on December 3, 2020, all partners present decided to establish this working group in order to achieve the above-mentioned goal.The working group sees itself as an open association of partners in the...

Mission and goals of the working groupThe aim of the WG is to intensify cooperation in German-speaking countries, to use synergies, to exchange best practices and to establish short paths of (informal) exchange. The goals are:The expansion of personal contacts and the establishment of closer cooperation.Identifying and setting common prioritiesTo enable trilateral project consortia and to initiate concrete projects.The further development of CS in terms of content and quality in the...

Working group for citizen science in/with schoolsCoordinators: Petra Siegele, Elisabeth Schauermann, Marika Cieslinski (currently on maternity leave) (Centre for Citizen Science, OeAD)The working group ‘Citizen Science at/with schools’ was founded as part of the platform meeting on 26 June 2019 in Obergurgl to bring together the numerous experiences from the cooperation between science and schools. The members of the working group come from research institutions and schools.Over the past...

The Austrian Citizen Science Conference takes place annually and is organised by the partners of the Citizen Science Network Austria.Head: Daniel Dörler, Florian HeiglThe Working Group "Conference" organizes the annual Austrian Citizen Science Conference. It is composed of the local organization team, which changes every year depending on the conference location, and a team of dedicated individuals, which on the one hand takes care of the scientific support of the conference (i.e. mainly...

The working group for quality criteria was established to create criteria for the platform that are as objective, traceable and, above all, publicly visible as possible.Head: Florian Heigl and Daniel Dörler, BOKU UniversityAt the annual platform meeting of Österreich forscht on 1 March 2017, the partners decided to set up a working group on quality criteria for citizen science projects. This became necessary because, due to new funding programmes and the level of awareness of citizen...