Get involved in citizen science
Collaborative endeavors between scientists and civil society stakeholders have developed significantly in recent years. This growth is driven by public interest in the scientific approach and culture, as well as by the need to find solutions to complex issues (economic, social, health, environmental, cultural, educational and ethical). Digital technology has helped foster the development of this type of collaboration, drawing on both artificial and collective intelligence.
Citizen science relies on cooperation and public participation to produce knowledge in a manner that approaches the scientific, ethical, legal and technology issues of research from a broader perspective.
Finding answers together has thus become the great collective intelligence challenge of the 21st century.
Le festival Va Savoir! se tiendra du vendredi 25 au dimanche 27 octobre 2024 à Montpellier et permettra à toutes et à tous de découvrir de nombreux programmes de disciplines diverses à travers animations, balades, expositions, jeux-escape game et soirée concert.Retrouvez le programme du festival sur www.festival-vasavoir.fr.Événement gratuit, accessible à ...
Une nouvelle vague de l'Appel à Projet Recherches Participatives 2 (émergence) vient d'être publiée par l'ANR.Cet AAP vise, comme le précédent ouvert en 2023, à accompagner la maturation de projets en émergence sur une durée de 12 à 18 mois avec un financement maximal de 100k€ par projet.Date limite de ...
Biodiversity
Participatory Observatory of Beach Top Biodiversity
To monitor and understand the biodiversity dynamics of the shore in response to global and local changes to improve conservation of this ecosystem.
Any member of the community can participate in simple protocols, based on observations of the biological groups in the wrack (seaweed; and eventually, birds, invertebrates and plants).
Project created
Mainland France
Type of project : Field
Level of involvement : Case by case
Biodiversity
Damsel and dragonfly survey
Assess the spatial and temporal variations in the abundance of odonata populations.
Standardized counts of common odonata
Project created
Mainland France
Type of project : Field, online
Biodiversity
Wintering bird survey
Assess the spatial and temporal variations in the abundance of winter populations of common birds.
Standardized counts of common birds
Project created
Mainland France
Type of project : Field, online
Level of involvement : Case by case
Biodiversity
Better understand biodiversity in agricultural environments, how it evolves and its links
Develop tracking indicators to monitor biodiversity status in agricultural environments and raise awareness among agricultural professionals about practices to support biodiversity
The OAB offers agricultural professionals four standardized protocols they can use to observe wild fauna on their land. The collected data are analyzed at the MNHN.
Project created
Mainland France
Type of project : Field
Level of involvement : Case by case
Environment
The project aims to understand the origin and estimate the quantity of litter, and especia.
- Monitoring of accumulated macro waste - Raising awareness of pollution and encouraging reflection on waste life cycles - Testing mapping with drones to estimate waste quantities
Project in test phase
Internationally
Type of project : Field
Level of involvement : Once a day
Environment
Participatory audit of walkability and air quality.
EXPO'PED is proposing an original study of the walking mobility of elderly people in a neighbourhood and their exposure to atmospheric pollutants on a micro-local scale.
A dozen volunteers carried out three air quality measurement campaigns in their neighbourhoods in autumn 2022, winter and spring 2023, using sensors to measure fine particles and nitrogen dioxides that were loaned to them.
Project completed
French regions
Type of project : Field
History - archeology
A participatory approach in Indonesia where students and members of the local communities work together on archaeological, prehistorical and cultural heritage conservation issues.
- Retrieval of scientific data in collaboration with local communities and institutions (museums, schools, elected officials) - Collaborative discussion on the implementation of conservation tools
Project created
Internationally
Type of project : Field
Level of involvement : Case by case
Biodiversity
Observe the lichens in town to follow the evolution of air quality.
Lichens GO is a monitoring of lichens growing on trees in cities to better understand the ecology of these organisms and their sensitivity to air pollution.
Locate three straight trees. Observe the lichens on their trunks and determine them with the Lichens GO key (available on the site) Enter your observation data and participate in the construction of knowledge on these organisms and on air quality!
Project created
Mainland France
Type of project : Field, online
Level of involvement : Case by case
Languages and IT
Play with zombies to improve French language processing tools
While playing, participants annotate text corpora. This annotation will then be used to train natural language processing tools.
After a short training period, players are required to identify grammatical relationships in sentences taken from non-copyrighted texts.
Project created
Type of project : Online