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Scaling up citizen science
What are the factors associated with increased reach and how to lever them to achieve impact
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The rapid pace of technology advancements, the open innovation paradigm, and the ubiquity of high-speed connectivity, greatly facilitate access to information to individuals, increasing their opportunities to achieve greater emancipation and empowerment. This provides new opportunities for widening participation in scientific research and policy, thus opening a myriad of avenues driving a paradigm
shift across fields and disciplines, including the strengthening of Citizen Science. Nowadays, the application of Citizen Science principles spans across several scientific disciplines, covering different geographical scales. While the interdisciplinary approach taken so far has shown significant results and findings, the current situation depicts a wide range of projects that are heavily context-dependent and where the learning outcomes of pilots are very much situated within the specific areas in which these projects are implemented. There is little evidence on how to foster the spread and scalability in Citizen Science. Furthermore, the Citizen Science community currently lacks a general agreement on what these terms mean, entail and how these can be approached. To address these issues, we developed a theoretically grounded framework to unbundle the meaning of scaling and spreading in Citizen Science. In this framework, we defined nine constructs that represent the enablers of these complex phenomena. We then validated, enriched, and instantiated this framework through four qualitative case studies of, diverse, successful examples of scaling and spreading in Citizen Science. The framework and the rich experiences allow formulating four theoretically and empirically grounded scaling scenarios. We propose the framework and the in-depth case studies as the main contribution from this report. We hope to stimulate future research to further refine our understanding of the important, complex and multifaceted phenomena of scaling and spreading in Citizen Science. The framework also proposes a structured mindset for practitioners that either want to ideate and start a new Citizen Science intervention that is scalable-by-design, or for those that are interested in assessing the scalability potential of an existing initiative.
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Published:
2020-11-05
Corporate author(s):
Joint Research Centre
(
European Commission
)
Personal author(s):
Righi, Valeria
;
Creus, Javier
;
Balestrini, Mara
;
Maccani, Giovanni
;
Goossensen, Margriet
Themes:
Scientific and technical research
Subject:
citizen science
,
report
,
research policy
,
research project
,
scientific research
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978-92-76-25157-6
DOI
10.2760/00926
Catalogue number
KJ-02-20-911-EN-N
PDF
ISBN
978-92-76-25157-6
DOI
10.2760/00926
Catalogue number
KJ-02-20-911-EN-N
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ISSN
ISBN
978-92-76-25158-3
DOI
10.2760/354206
Catalogue number
KJ-02-20-911-EN-C
Paper
ISBN
978-92-76-25158-3
DOI
10.2760/354206
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KJ-02-20-911-EN-C
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