More than 'just' Citizen Science: the need to define and categorise Open Engagement of societal actors for Open Science monitoring purposes

Open Engagement of societal actors in scientific processes is a key pillar of Open Science. This paper explores how the broad spectrum of open engagement approaches can be systematically operationalized to classify research projects. Used terminologies for these approaches, like e.g., citizen science, lack differentiation which complicate comprehensive monitoring, and, therefore, a better understanding and description of open engagement practices are needed. Open Science Monitoring requires an interdisciplinary discussion of terminology and an understanding of the different research processes, practices, and outputs. In this paper, we present our preliminary findings based on a corpus of 91 participatory research projects from the Berlin University Alliance (BUA), collected as part of the development of a Participatory Research Map (PR Map).