URJC researchers participate in a European Citizen Science project

CS-Track Activities

CS-Track activities begin, a European project in which researchers from the Rey Juan Carlos University participate, coordinated by professors Manuel Gértrudix (Grupo Ciberimaginario) and Estefanía Martín (LITE Lab), together with Universities and international research centers to develop activities that promote citizen participation in the scientific field.

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The first meeting of the project took place last December “Expanding our knowledge on Citizen Science through analytics and analysis” of the acronym CS-Track in Leuven (Belgium), which was attended by professors from the Rey Juan Carlos University Estefanía Martín and Mario Rajas.

This project, financed by the European Union within the “Horizon 2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Programme”, has a duration of three years and institutions from Germany, Austria, Finland, Belgium, Greece, Israel and Spain participate in it with the aim to expand knowledge in the field of citizen science. The work of the Rey Juan Carlos University in the project will focus, on the one hand, on carrying out scientific communication actions to disseminate the results of the research. To this end, a platform and a e-magazine with visual, graphic and interactive multimedia elements with the purpose of offering information and encouraging the participation of experts and citizens in the project. And, on the other, in the development of tools for monitoring Citizen Science activities on the internet and social networks.

CS-Track is based on data analysis to understand the benefits of citizen science in society, companies and institutions of the European Union. The project seeks to achieve the actions, processes and good practices of scientific dissemination to raise awareness and generate knowledge.

To raise public awareness, scientific dissemination activities will be carried out in which agents with different profiles will participate in order to acquire new knowledge and skills that will allow them to contribute to the achievement of the project and the development of scientific innovations in this field.