
The RIECS project, which starts IIASA and partners on a journey towards a Pan-European ‘Research Infrastructure for Excellent Citizen Science’, is an exciting new project that started on 1 January 2025. Led by Fundación Ibercivis and the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), the Kickoff meeting will bring together 13 partners to discuss the conceptual design of this new infrastructure.
The RIECS project aims to design a European Research Infrastructure for citizen science that will leverage both the resources of citizens (such as mobile phones, desktop computers, etc.) and existing scientific resources (citizen science platforms, data collection, existing research infrastructures, etc.) to provide crosscutting services to the research community.
The RIECS project will produce two key outcomes: a conceptual design including a feasibility study, and a five-year implementation plan for the new research infrastructure. The design will consider technical, operational, societal, and environmental challenges associated with establishing a permanent and shared infrastructure.
The consortium will cooperate with major national and international networks co-organizing activities such as surveys and workshops to bring their related solutions and needs.
The Kickoff meeting in Brussels will allow the consortium to begin the conceptual design process and make a clear action plan for the next six months.
Steffen Fritz and Linda See from NODES will be active contributors to the two main technical work packages that involve defining the user requirements and the design of the infrastructure. As one of the first projects of the CSGP, Dilek Fraisl and Katya Guzman Pérez will be involved in stakeholder engagement and communication and dissemination.
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