Ibercivis, the Iberian citizen science initiative. Projects and achievements.

Ibercivis is a private non-profit organization devoted to citizen science. It was created in 2011 by some of the most important Spanish public research institutions: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, University of... [ view full abstract ]

Ibercivis is a private non-profit organization devoted to citizen science. It was created in 2011 by some of the most important Spanish public research institutions: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, University of Zaragoza, CSIC, CIEMAT, Red.es, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, Ikerbasque Foundation and Aragon Government.
In this poster we share the timeline, challenges and success stories that we experienced in order to create a new national trans-disciplinary institution with the support of several policy bodies and research institutions who understood the need of such a common initiative to effectively promote and support the uptake of this new kind of science-society interactions. Our roles include the promotion of experiments, coordination of groups, representation with stakeholders, technologies operation and user support. We have worked with dozens of research groups leading to enhanced research and new learning scenarios. This roadmap was already easily upscaled to Portugal (with the following institutions: UMIC, University of Coimbra, LIP, FCCN and Ciencia Viva) and it may be adopted and adapted by any other national or international wiling to
In addition to the development and adaptation of tools and technologies, we deploy participatory projects aiming to enrich our analysis and to explore new inspirational ideas. With the focus on non-English speaking countries, we count with roughly fifty thousand of volunteers in a wide range of participation models: volunteer computing, crowdsourcing scientific images analysis, environmental monitoring, social participatory experiments, collective intelligence. In this talk, we will also present some of the most important projects and their achievements in fields like physics, biotechnology, digital social sciences or arts.