What can you find here?
Latest projects
Tick Tracker
Night Sky Counts
Pollinator Patch
River Guardians
AirSense Community Monitoring
Urban Bird Watch
Upcoming events
European Citizen Science Conference 2027
Three days of talks, workshops and project showcases bringing together practitioners and researchers from across Europe.
City Nature Challenge Bioblitz
A weekend bioblitz where residents record as many wild species as possible in their city using a mobile app.
Webinar: Getting Your Data Into Policy
An online session on presenting citizen-generated evidence to local and national decision makers.
What is
citizen
science?
Citizen science is any activity that involves the public in scientific research and thus has the potential to bring together science, policy makers, and society as a whole in an impactful way. Through citizen science, all people can participate in many stages of the scientific process, from the design of the research question, to data collection and volunteer mapping, data interpretation and analysis, and to publication and dissemination of results. Citizen science is also an approach of scientific work that may be used as a part of a broader scientific activity.
Learn more about it with the ECSA 10 Principles of Citizen Science and the ECSA Characteristics of Citizen Science!