| European Citizen Science Association | |
| Abbreviation: | ECSA |
| Formation: | 2014 |
| Vat Id: | DE262426477 |
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| Status: | Charitable Organization |
| Headquarters: | Natural History Museum, Berlin |
| Location: | Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin |
| Coordinates: | 52.53°N 13.3794°W |
| Fields: | Citizen Science |
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| Leader Title: | Executive Chair |
| Leader Name: | Prof. Johannes Vogel, PhD |
| Leader Title2: | Executive Vice-Chair |
| Leader Name2: | Muki (Mordechai) Haklay |
| Leader Title3: | Executive Vice-Chair |
| Leader Name3: | Luigi Ceccaroni |
| Board Of Directors: | Dorte Riemenschneider (Managing Director) |
| Affiliations: | Citizen Science Association, Australian Citizen Science Association |
The European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) is a membership and networking organization for practitioners and researchers of citizen science in Europe. ECSA was founded in 2014 in Germany and is registered as a charitable and member-based professional organization.
ECSA was launched in 2013.
ECSA has a board of directors, elected by its members, and a collection of professional working groups that establish standards, identify best practices, help to focus research and technology, and explore the ethics of citizen science. In addition, it has an advisory board and a steering committee, which support the executive board.[1]
It has held general assemblies each year since 2014, at which ECSA members and working groups present their initiatives and discuss how the organization’s vision can be further developed.
The first biannual international ECSA conference was held in Berlin in May 2016.[2]
ECSA has initiated several strategic capacity-building programmes at the European and national scale, which have led to the development of outputs such as the Socientize Green and White Papers on Citizen Science in Europe and the Green paper Citizen Science Strategy 2020 for Germany.[3] [4] The European White Paper provided the basis for several actions and policies related to public engagement in science directed by the European Commission, such as the "Science with and for Society" programme 2018-2020.[5]
ECSA is an active consortium member in several projects funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020. These include:
To complement the definition of citizen science, ECSA also developed Ten Principles of Citizen Science, which have been translated into numerous European languages and have been published as a chapter in the open access book Citizen Science - Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy.[14] [15] [16]
List of citizen science projects