Availability of information on citizen science activities, checked against the Activities & Dimensions Grid of Citizen Science on the basis of some projects

The research resulting in this report aimed at answering the following questions:

• Which information on citizen science activities is online available that matches the Activity & Dimension Grid of Citizen Science or goes beyond it?  

• Is there any contradictory information?

• What can be the reason for the availability or non-availability of information about citizen science activities?

• How does/could this impact on the CS Track’s recommendations?

The corresponding dataset consists of the results of a keyword-based search in the WP2 project database. The information retrieval resulted in 3318 projects on which information is available in German or English.

More information on this research can be found in D2.2 section 3.2.