D3.2: CROPS communication strategies

This document is divided into three parts.

The first one counts three chapters: introduction, state-of-the-art, and case study analysis.

Introduction provides a general overview of the importance of science communication for Citizen Science (CS) projects, and of the current trends in the field.

State-of-the-art digs deeper in the current trends of science communication in CS projects, highlighting good practices and shortcomings.

Case study analysis considers a series of CS projects and platforms and their experience, training materials, and resources for science communication. It includes the CROPS CS Champions, who were interviewed for our podcast series, and some hints from the Work Package (WP) 2 deliverable 2.2.

The second part of this document is about a survey for CS project managers and leaders that we launched in March 2025 to collect first-hand data on their projects.

The survey chapter contains a short summary of the answers of the interviewees, and a discussion of the more important findings.

The third section of the document contains the results and synthesis of findings from the previous sections, and the guidelines for CS project managers and leaders to empower the communication and dissemination (C&D) impact of their projects.

Results and conclusions is a short chapter summarising the main findings from literature review, case studies, WP2 projects, and our survey.

Communication strategies contain a set of general recommendations on how to design a successful C&D strategy, and a series of specific guidelines for CS projects belonging to the 5 EU Missions.