Integrating citizen science in European Research proposals – Horizon Europe collaborative projects, MSCA actions, and ERC projects
Description: This three-hour workshop will share the experience and recommendations for integrating citizen science activities into research projects that are running within the Horizon Europe programme. We will start with background on the framework for public engagement and citizen science within Horizon Europe. We will introduce important documents and concepts that were developed by the European Commission and can be used as a reference for such integration. We then cover the role of citizen science within the collaborative project in the different areas of Horizon Europe (such as climate or the European Research Area). We will also cover aspects that are relevant to fellowship applications, such as MSCA postdoctoral fellowships and ERC projects, as well as doctoral networks. The workshop will use examples from a range of projects that the European Citizen Science Association is involved in, and it will include presentations from people who have run citizen science within their project.
The training is provided by the European Citizen Science Academy.
Who should attend?
The training is addressed to all Romanian researchers working in or intending to work in citizen science, as well as academics, practitioners, and project managers who are interested in applying participatory methods in their research and innovation activities. It is also relevant for PhD students, early-career researchers, and institutional staff engaged in Open Science practices, research ethics, or community engagement.
Trainers:
Prof Muki Haklay – Professor of Geographic Information Science, UCL, and team lead at Université Paris Cité/Learning Planet Institute. Prof. Haklay has been working in participatory mapping and citizen science for over 20 years, he led and participated in many European projects, including an ERC Advanced Grant and an ERC Proof of Concept. He acted as panel member in the ERC starting grants, and on Horizon Europe projects.
Cléa Montanari – Project manager, Université Paris Cité/Learning Planet Institute. Cléa leads the European Citizen Science Academy and participated in contributing to European and local grant applications.
Dr Anna Berti-Suman – Research Fellow in Sustainable Innovation Law at Luiss School of Law, Rome. Earlier, she was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship grantee and formerly Dutch Research Council fellow at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy. She founded and still curates the ‘Sensing for Justice’ project aimed at exploring the potential of civic monitoring to promote environmental law enforcement.
Dr Franziska Stressmann – Project officer at the European Citizen Science Association. Franziska has been involved in running Horizon Europe and applying to them as part of her role in ECSA.
Dr Gefion Thuermer – Expert grant writer, trainer, and research consultant, with a focus on European funding streams (e.g. Horizon Europe). She is the project coordinator of the IMPETUS project which accelerated many citizen science projects.
Colombe Warin – project officer in REA, a French, born in Mexico, graduated from ‘Sciences-Po Paris’, the College of Europe (Bruges) and the MBA of Solvay Business School (Brussels), She is Project Adviser at the European Commission in charge of a portfolio of research & innovation projects in the area of environment and biodiversity.
Time of training: Wednesday, November 19 (14:00 – 17:00 hrs CET/ 15:00 – 18:00 Bucharest time)
Type of training: Online training on Zoom. Registered participants will receive the Zoom link before the training.
Registration: Registration link https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rBjMXe71zL Deadline for registration: 17 November 2025, 17.00