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Citizen Science Workshop by DRESDEN concept
On behalf of DRESDEN-concept, UNU-FLORES, and SLUB are cordially inviting you to join the first Dresden-wide citizen science workshop on September 16th, 2024, from 9:30 – 16:00, at the SLUB Open Science Lab.
Citizen science has been described as a participatory research approach where, based on their skills, citizens are directly involved and engaged with the research process. Besides direct outputs, such as cost-effective data collection, many have theorized and proved its potential to raise public awareness, create and share knowledge, transform citizens’ behavioral outcomes, and democratize scientific processes with profound, sustainable impacts. However, like any other approach, citizen science comes with challenges like data quality, resource-intensiveness, ethical concerns, and transaction costs.
At its core, citizen science is a collective effort to facilitate communication and understanding at the Science-Policy-Society interface. At DRESDEN-concept, we all work closely with this interface, as well as with data, but sometimes in silos. With this in mind, and knowing that citizen science exists at many of the DRESDEN-concept partner institutes, we are preparing a workshop with four main points to cover:
- Raise awareness about citizen science at DRESDEN-concept.
- Present and discuss institutional viewpoints at DRESDEN-concept.
- Showcase past, existing, and emerging citizen science activities of DRESDEN-concept partners.
- Discuss and agree on the future of citizen science at DRESDEN-concept, e.g., in the form of a Working Group, Task Force, or Community of Practice.
Therefore, we would like to invite you to join us in initiating a dialogue to find synergies, trade-offs, and areas of mutual interest for the future through attending the workshop to learn more about citizen science and its potential.
A tentative agenda for the workshop is presented in the table below. Please note that we have limited capacity to host you and your projects in person. Therefore, we will have to follow a first-come-first-served approach. However, we will try our best to accommodate everyone by streaming selected parts of the event for those who cannot attend in person.
We eagerly look forward to hearing from many of you!
Serena Coetzee, Kay-Michael Würzner, Martin Munke, and Taha Loghmani (Organizing team)
Edel Guenther and Katrin Stump (Directors at UNU-FLORES and SLUB)
| Nr. | Item | Time and location | Format |
| 1 | Reception and Coffee | 9:30–10 AM; SLUB OSL forum | |
| 2 | Opening remarks by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rödel (DRESDEN-concept: Head Office Manager) | 10:05–10:15 AM OSL 1 | Talk |
| 3 | Expert talk 1 (data importance, citizen inclusion, governance, and participation) | 10:15–10:45 AM; OSL 1 | Invited speaker (TBA) / lecture |
| 4 | Prof. Dr. Edel Guenther (UNU-FLORES Director); Mrs. Katrin Stump (SLUB Director General), Prof. Dr. Angela Rösen-Wolff (Vice Rector Research) | 10:45 –11:30 AM OSL 1 | Impulse lectures on institutional positioning with discussion |
| 5 | Lunch and buffet | 11:30 AM –12:30 PM; SLUB catering hall | Lunch and networking |
| 6 | Expert talk 2 | 12:30–1 PM OSL 1 | Invited speaker (TBA) / lecture |
| 7 | 5-10 Minute Presentations by participants | 1–2 PM; OSL 1 | Oral presentations |
| 8 | Poster sessions, networking, and coffee | 2–3 PM; SLUB catering hall | Poster presentations |
| 9 | Open platform | 3–4 PM; SLUB OSL breakout rooms | Focus groups, Workshops |
| 10 | Closing | 4–4:15 PM |
Possible topics for the open platform:
- Engaging citizens and keeping them engaged
- Doing citizen science, i.e., moving beyond mechanical turks
- Strengthen data literacy and trust in science through citizen science
- Ethical considerations in citizen science
- Benefits of cross-institutional collaboration in citizen science
Kay-Michael Würzner ist Sprachwissenschaftler und hat Computerlinguistik und Germanistik studiert. Nach dem Studium arbeitete er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität Potsdam und der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften im Bereich korpuslinguistischer Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen. Seit April 2019 ist Kay-Michael Würzner an der SLUB tätig und bearbeitet Themen des maschinellen Lernens und der automatischen Sprachverarbeitung. Darüber hinaus ist er für die Koordination der Beratungsangebote rund um den gesamten Forschungskreislauf verantwortlich und berät Sie gerne zu allen Aspekten einer offenen Wissenschaftskultur.