Muki Haklay
Myriam Fockenoy
Morgane Opoix
Christian Nold
Alice Sheppard
Joseph Roche
Laura Bell
2020-02-28
<p>This document combines four elements: a review of the socio-demographic context of citizen science, a literature review of learning in relation to citizen science, a community survey of training needs and a detailed analysis of a set of training resources. These four activities identified five distinct clusters of training needs/gaps:<br>
1. Scientific Training: topic-specific training that targets scientific methodologies and issues.<br>
2. Volunteer Management Training: topic-specific training that targets the engagement, maintenance and management of volunteer participants.<br>
3. Critical / Reflexive / New Possibilities Training: is training for unrepresented & critical agendas as well as the inclusion of marginalised groups in citizen science such as art and culture, activism & social justice, ethics and legal questions as well as practical crafting and ‘making’ skills.<br>
4. Schools Training: audience-specific training that is the most tightly focused training in that is targets teachers and young people in formal education.<br>
5. Practical / Operational Training: training that covers the practical and operations processes, methods and tools required to run and communicate citizen science projects.<br>
The majority of the training material analysed requires at least one hour of training with some requiring more than a day to complete, which is a significant time investment. This research sets the foundations for a typology of citizen training needs that will be presented in forthcoming deliverable D5.2.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3690768
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https://zenodo.org/communities/eu-citizenscience
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3690767
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citizen science
training needs
Deliverable 5.1: Report in training needs
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