Citizen Science/Projects/Crowd4SDG

Fact Sheet

• Provided by: Crowd4SDG consortium members
• Lead: Université Paris Cité (Learning Planet Institute) and transdisciplinary consortium of six partners
• Project term: 2020-2023
• Project website: https://crowd4sdg.eu
• Funder: Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action (European Commission's Science with and for Society programme)

Project Description

The Crowd4SDG project researched the extent to which citizen science can provide an essential source of non-traditional data for tracking progress towards the SDGs, as well as the ability of citizen science to generate social innovations that enable such progress. The transdisciplinary consortium of six partners focused on SDG 13 (Climate Action) to explore new ways of applying citizen science for monitoring the impacts of extreme climate events and strengthening the resilience of communities to climate-related disasters.

The project used a novel innovation cycle called GEAR (Gather, Evaluate, Accelerate, Refine) that ran annually, involving online selection and coaching of citizen-generated ideas for climate action, with the most promising projects accelerated through challenge-based innovation workshops.

Project Outcomes

• Overview on project deliverables including reports on citizen science methodologies and data quality assessments
• Citizen Science Solution Kit (CSSK) - a set of tools for developing and running citizen science projects

Additional Information

Training materials including hackathon/workshop organization handbook and tool tutorials: https://crowd4sdg.eu/training-materials/