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SOCIENTIZE SOCiety as Infrastructure for E-Science via technology, innovation and creativity

Deliverable no. D2.3.1

Deliverable name Annual report of dissemination activities

Dissemination level PUBLIC

WP no. 2

WP name Communication and Citizenship

Date 18/11/2014

Status Final

Author(s) Manuel Pérez, António Monteiro, Cândida G. Silva, Teresa Holocher-Ertl, Adabriand Furtado, Nazareno Andrade

Reviewers Fermín Serrano

Version 07

ABSTRACT:

This annual dissemination report describes the dissemination and outreach activities for SOCIETIC during the second year of the project. This document also describes the dissemination products that have been produced and the SOCIENTIZE events that were held during this period of the project.

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Society as Infrastructure for e-science WP2 Communication and Citizenship via technology, innovation and creativity RI-312902 2 D2.3.2 Dissemination Report

CHANGE LOG

Version Date Author/Editor/Reviewer Reason for change / issue

00 22/09/2014 Manuel Pérez Creation.

01 22/09/2014 Manuel Perez, António Monteiro, Fermín Serrano

Dissemination activities developed.

02 30/09/2014 Fermín Serrano Review.

03 05/11/2014 Cândida G. Silva 1) Reviewed text & reorganised events chronologically. 2) Added activities developed in Brazilian schools. 3) Extended description of activities with seniors and inmates. 4) Completed dissemination material section. 5) Completed Media coverage section.

04 11/11/2014 António Monteiro Completed the description of different dissemination activities.

05 13/11/2014 Teresa Holocher-Ertl Completed description of the online platforms used to interact with people 50+.

06 17/11/2014 Adabriand Furtado, Nazareno Andrade

Added detailed information about activities in Brazilian schools.

07 18/11/2014 Cândida G. Silva Final.

Disclaimer This document is property of the Socientize consortium. This document may not be copied, reproduced, or modified in the whole or in the part for any purpose without written permission from the Socientize coordinator with acceptance of the Project Consortium. This publication was completed with the support of the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. The contents of this publication do not necessarily reflect the Commission's own position.

SOCIENTIZE is supported by the European Commission under Contract Number: RI-312902

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CONTENTS

1! SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................ 4!2! INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 4!3! DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES .......................................................................................... 5!

3.1! MAIN EVENTS ............................................................................................................... 5!3.2! ATTENDED EVENTS .................................................................................................... 6!3.3! GENERAL PUBLIC EVENTS ..................................................................................... 14!3.4! SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES ................................................................................ 22!

3.4.1! SPAIN ..................................................................................................................... 22!3.4.2! PORTUGAL ........................................................................................................... 23!3.4.3! BRAZIL .................................................................................................................. 30!3.4.4! JAPAN .................................................................................................................... 31!

3.5! RISK OF EXCLUSION GROUPS ................................................................................ 32!3.5.1! PEOPLE 50+ ........................................................................................................... 32!3.5.2! PRISON INMATES ................................................................................................ 35!

4! MEDIA ................................................................................................................................. 36!4.1! ARTICLES .................................................................................................................... 36!4.2! ONLINE AND PRINTED JOURNALS ........................................................................ 37!

4.2.1! SPAIN ..................................................................................................................... 37!4.2.2! PORTUGAL ........................................................................................................... 41!4.2.3! DIGITAL AGENDA FOR EUROPE ..................................................................... 58!

4.3! RADIO AND TELEVISION ......................................................................................... 62!4.3.1! RADIO .................................................................................................................... 62!4.3.2! TELEVISION ......................................................................................................... 64!

4.4! VIDEO PRODUCTIONS .............................................................................................. 65!5! WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA ...................................................................................... 67!

5.1! WEBSITE ...................................................................................................................... 67!5.2! TWITTER ...................................................................................................................... 69!5.3! FACEBOOK .................................................................................................................. 70!5.4! LINKEDIN..................................................................................................................... 71!5.5! PORTUGUESE NEWSLETTER .................................................................................. 72!

6! MOU & PARTNERSHIPS ................................................................................................... 73!7! DISSEMINATION MATERIALS ....................................................................................... 75!

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1 SUMMARY During the second year of the project, the dissemination effort has been concentrated into three focus: (i) dissemination of the collaborative process for the writing of Green & White Paper; (ii) dissemination of the new line of citizen science experiments; and (iii) attendance to the main science events in Europe, in order to ignite the maximum interest of relevant audiences on the results of Socientize.

Social Media and events attendance have been two key pieces to disseminate all around this message, specially via the European forums as ESOF 2014, or by the production of own events like the Citizen Science day held in Brussels last September.

The final event in Brussels, just before the end of project, draws the perfect scenario for the presentation and dissemination of the White Paper, attracting the interest of people in the CS world from places so far as USA or Australia, despite their European born place.

2 INTRODUCTION SOCIENTIZE dissemination strategy is led by Work Package 2 of the project which is responsible for the dissemination activities of the project. The objectives of the package are:

• Dissemination of capabilities and results of citizen-science and society.

• Dissemination of capabilities and results of citizen-science and communities and e-Infrastructure providers.

• Engage citizen-scientists with the e-Science activities and exploit.

• Search for and identification of amateurs and scientists user SOCIENTIZE e-infrastructures

• Collection of community feedback.

WP2 is composed by the following tasks:

• Identification of target groups and mapping target group tailored dissemination activities.

• Web site creation, social media and general dissemination activities.

• Event organization.

• Collaboration with other projects and e-infrastructures.

• Impact assessment of dissemination activities.

As consequence of project’s activity, WP2 is required to produce an annual report on these events. This deliverable, named Annual Report of Dissemination Activities, D2.3.1, reports on the activities developed between months 13 and 24 of the project. Thus, this deliverable depicts the work performed during the second year of the project by the dissemination and policy development teams, and the projects and groups collaborating with SOCIENTIZE.

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3 DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES Socientize has developed an intense dissemination activity during this second year, mostly focused on the promotion of the White Paper process both generating and participating in world class events, and developing actions to attract and motivate the public to contribute actively to science experiments. Contact was established contact with educational institutes and a network of universities for elderly people, and commercial shopping centres. Additionally, the consortium participated in events for the general public and organized dissemination activities and events like seminars and conferences.

3.1 MAIN EVENTS

European Conference on Citizen Science, 22th September 2014.

The conference was held at Charlemagne building in Brussels and it was moderated by Fermín Serrano, Socientize project coordinator. The event opened with talks about policy makers and Citizen Science, starting with MEP Mr. Pablo Echenique, with a powerful phrase about Citizen Science value: "Thousands brains think better than one. Collective thinking is the key".

Figure 1. Citizen Science event in Brussels.

John Magan, deputy head of Unit Digital Science at DG Connect said "it's a great conference, modest size but hopefully large impact, like the project itself!". He invited the audience to participate in the on going consultation about Science 2.0. ITU Telecom representative Joseph Gaylord presented case stories of social innovators worldwide via the Young Innovators Competition; and José Miguel Rubio, research program officer of DG RTD, made some fine comments about the environmental, technological and scientific values of citizen science, also announcing a very interesting event about Citizens Observatories.

After this, Fermín Serrano, introduced the White Paper of the Citizen Science in Europe, highlighting the most important conclusions and recommendations at the different levels. Then it was the time to review two of the Socientize's experiments: UrbanBees, introduced by his PM

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Isabelle Bonhoure, Universidad de Barcelona, and Antimatter, by Michael Doser, Researcher at CERN.

The review of EC funded projects related with Citizen Science, started with Citizen Cyberlab, Francois Grey, Coordinator CCC; Scientix, Gina Mihai, Science Team EUN; ICT-ART- CONNECT, Pieter Jan Valgaeren, Researcher iMinds; FET2020, Giuseppe Saija, Project Manager Youris; and RRI Tools, Daniel Garcia, Science Communication Officer Fundación La Caixa.

After a coffee break, it was time to review Citizen Science initiatives like Ibercivis, with Victor Castelo, e-Infrastructures advisor, CSIC-MINECO; the European Citizen Science Association, ECSA, represented by Claudia Göbel, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, who invited the audience to the General Assembly; the Open Knowledge Belgium, Pieter Colpaert, Researcher OKFN; the iMAL, Yves Bernard, Director iMAL; and the well known Zooniverse, represented by Sarah Kendrew, Scientist Zooniverse.

During the debate, we discussed about data policy, digital social sciences, educational aspects, grassroots funding and future plans. Another future event was also mentioned

The Brussels event was organized by a Socientize committee run by Francisco Sanz and Eduardo Lostal from the University of Zaragoza, and was live streamed by EC media services.

Photo album in Flickr.

Photo album in Facebook.

Download videos and presentations.

3.2 ATTENDED EVENTS

Ars Electronica 2014, Linz, 4-8th September 2014.

The 2014 Ars Electronica (AE) Festival theme was “C ... what it takes to change,” an inquiry into the prerequisites and framework conditions necessary to enable social innovation and renewal to emerge and make an impact.

The focus was on art as catalyst. The in-depth elaborations, lively discussions and bold provocations featured, as usual, artists, scholars and scientists from all over the world—renowned intellectuals confronted by young contrarians, top experts encountering interested laypersons, the pioneers of the Digital Revolution face to face with the shooting stars of today’s media art.

Socientize project launched the connections of art, science and citizens in a talk by Fermin Serrano in the main agenda of AE, talking about deploying participatory projects for experimental data gathering, promoting the public engagement and the swift of scientific culture towards digital, open and inclusive scenarios. All these experiences allow an interesting exploration of artistic approaches to change the face of research and to foster collective intelligence for solving global social challenges.

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Figure 2. Fermín Serrano talk at AE.

EuroScience Open Forum, ESOF 2014, Copenhagen, 21-26th June 2014.

Socientize and other 6 projects starred in the EC stand in Euroscience Open Forum 2014, celebrated in Copenhagen 21-26th June. Our motto during the event was #ILoveEUResearch.

In our space at EC stand we met many people interested in the concept of CS and the Whitepaper and their conclusions, presenting suggestions for new experiments and concerns about the technology requested under Socientize activities. Clearly, the project can benefit from these top-level contacts.

Socientize hosted VIP guests like:

• Mr. José-Manuel Durão Barroso, president of EC.

• Mme. Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research and Innovation.

• Mr. Robert-Jan Smits, DG Research, stayed with us for knowing the basis of Socientize and how CS will help Europe in the battle for science and innovation leadership. Especially nice were the congratulations of DG Smits for all the staff and volunteers of the project.

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Figure 3. R.J. Smits and Eduardo Lostal, Socientize impact briefing.

The event had a huge agenda, and Socientize participated not only with demos at the stand, but also having two public talks:

• Tuesday, 24th. In the Exhibition Stage of the main building, speech of Eduardo Lostal, from BiFi, held Tuesday 24 introducing Socientize in a talk entitled “Enabling the new way for the Citizen Science in Europe”.

• Tuesday, 24th. In the satellite area “Wonder Café”, Eduardo Lostal participated at workshop called “Engagement in Citizen Science”.

Socientize people also visited the “K-Open-hague Science Festival”, meeting people from different science groups that mix “Makers” movement and Citizen Science.

Photo album available at Socientize’s Facebook.

Regional meeting of e-TWINNING, Coimbra, 20-21th June 2014.

On June 20th and 21st of 2014 took place the accredited Regional Meeting of e-Twinning (in Portuguese) at RÓMULO Ciência Viva Centre, in Coimbra with duration of 15 hours. Organized by the Educational Technologies and Resources Group (ERTE) and the Directorate-General of Education (DGE), this meeting was oriented to teachers interested in knowing and starting e-Twinning projects. This type of projects aims at the creation of collaborative networks between European teachers around initiatives and projects using Internet and Technologies of Information and Communication. SOCIENTIZE project was invited to present itself on June 20 at the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra in a one hour session as a collaborative open project where students and teachers could benefit from. One hundred teachers participated in this presentation with excitement and interest for the project. Flyers of SOCIENTIZE were distributed.

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SONAR Festival, Barcelona, 12-14th June 2014.

SOCIENTIZE attended the famous Barcelona’s SONAR Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art. The Collective Music Experience (CME), a citizen science experiment run by the BIFI of the University of Zaragoza, Socientize and Ibercivis, with the artists R de Rumba, DJ from the Spanish famous Hip Hop band Violadores del Verso, and M.A. Mercadal, was presented.

The challenge was to exploit the power and the passion of the music-based community in action. During the three days of the festival we opened a custom-made platform that allows music patterns generation and exchange, fostering fast self-evolution and alignment of perspectives among the networked participants. CME has been defined with two differentiated approaches.

Collective music composition occurs in cascades driven by a positive feedback dynamic linked with the exchange of patterns. These evolutions are supported by the capacity of participants to generate and re-use ideas so the dynamics of CME are emergent, complex and unpredictable. We will address these relationships with an interdisciplinary approach including mechanical statistics and evolution theory approaches.

Figure 4. Collective Music Experiment interface.


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SCICOM PT 2014, Porto, 3-4th June 2014.

On June 3rd and 4th of 2014 the Science Communication Congress SciCom PT 2014 took place at the rectory of the University of Porto. SOCIENTIZE Portuguese team took this opportunity to present a communication concerning the strategies taken to engage schools, elderly people and the general public under the name “Socientize – Promoting Citizen Science in Portugal”. In what concerned the school community, our workshops around Cell Spotting and Sun4All were highlighted such as the didactical resources produced till then and also the contest “School of Scientists”. To justify the relevance of our strategies, a few statistics were shown about the number of workshops and other activities made, teachers and students involved and the number of contributions to SOCIENTIZE projects. In what concerned the elderly people, the workshop “Citizen Science – For a More Active Society in Science” was explained and RUTIS - Universities of the Third Age Association Network was highlighted as a great example and opportunity to have this community involved in citizen science projects. A few statistics such as the number of sessions and participants were also presented. Finally, all the events for the general public made were presented highlighting SOCIENTIZE participation in the European Researchers Night 2013, the partnership with the chain of shopping centres Dolce Vita and the Sun4All event at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Coimbra. The personal experience of SOCIENTIZE team in engaging different target groups was also shared and discussed with the audience.

Figure 5. Participation at the SciCom Pt 2014.

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ECSITE 2014, The Hague, 20-24th May 2014.

The 25th edition of the ECSITE Annual Conference took place at The Hague under the theme “People Planet Peace”. Paulo Gama Mota, from the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, joined ECSITE 2014 joining the discussion panel "Making use of social participation in Science Centre" on Saturday June 24th.

Paulo joined the following presenters: Joanna Kalinowska from Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, Natalie Ireland, director of the Science and Industry Museum of Manchester; Giota Makri from Agro Know Technologies in Athens, Erinma Ochu from the Welcome Trust Festival in Manchester, and David Tombolato physicist working at the MUSE Science Museum of Trento.

The discussion was quite lively and some criticism was raised in two ways: real CS is when citizens identify a problem and a need and come to the scientists asking them to find a solution for their problem (bottom-up approaches), and CS is not real science because we were using citizens as technicians, as they were just performing a repetitive task with no real scientific participation. Paulo Gama Mota refused these statements: he said it was beautiful when citizens come with a problem and/or interest in science to provide answers. Paulo’s conclusions are that Citizens do get involved in many activities. Provided we are clear and honest on what is their role and on what they are participating, it is up to them to decide if they want to participate or not.

During the debate the Trento Museum presented an activity in which visitors are invited to collect data, though the data is not used for scientific work. A question raised to the Trento Museum people was if they were going to inform citizens that the data was rubbish and was not going to be useful. Here, Paulo raised again the question of honesty and trustworthiness: “It is essential in the interactions with the citizens. Otherwise, we risk poisoning this relationship we are trying to develop.”

Citizen Cyberscience Summit, London, 20-22th February 2014.

CCS has been held in London last 20-22th February, on two venues: the Royal Geographic Society historic building and the UCL campus in Euston.

The total number of registered attendants from Europe, America and Japan was over 200, including researchers, citizen scientists and policy makers. The event was organized by the University College of London, the Citizen Cyberlab, the Citizen Cyberscience Centre and the Mobile Collective.

Our project sponsored the CCS event, and participated in the agenda with three events: one workshop about the Whitepaper and policy recommendations, another introducing our range of experiments and a third about the model of participation in Citizen Science projects.

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Figure 6. Cândida Silva, at workshop in CCS London.

• Friday 21th, Socientize team offered a group workshop introduced by Fermín Serrano, to collect ideas to include in the consultation procedure for the project White Paper on Citizen Science in Europe. An interesting debate organized in thematic groups around the main sections of Whitepaper. Each representative of Socientize leaded a group of attendants to promote ideas about citizen science. A comprehensive description of the outcomes of this networking session is provided in section 5.2 of deliverable D3.2.2.

• Same Friday 21th, Francisco Brasileiro talked about "Volunteers Engagement Profiles in Volunteer Thinking Systems". This talk was a part of the ENGAGEMENT & MOTIVATION track. Francisco introduced five volunteers' engagement profiles discovered in volunteer thinking systems: Erratic, Hard worker, Persistent, Median, and Uniform. We discussed how volunteers with distinct profiles differ among themselves in terms of engagement, how to identify less engaged volunteers, and the benefits of developing profile-aware engagement strategies.

• Saturday 22th, Cândida Silva presented a demonstration of the Socientize range of Participatory Experiments, in a talk that was part of the NEW FRONTIERS IN CITIZEN SCIENCE track. Attendants received a first class overview of Socientize’s experiments.

Throughout the event, Socientize team profited from multiple networking activities with CS stakeholders in this great event for the community, and invited everyone to contribute to our consultation, via postcards survey distributed in situ in the CCS venues via mailboxes or via our online consultation platform.

Photo album in Socientize's Facebook.

ICT 2013, Vilnius, 6-8th November 2013. The conference featured meeting of top ICT professionals from industry, academia and research. Speakers from across the ICT sector addressed a range of issues from cloud computing, broadband, ICT infrastructures, ICT skills, cyber security, long term visions on the future and much more. Furthermore, experts presented details on how to participate in the next

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EU's Research Program - Horizon 2020. A special focus was placed on Digital Futures - a journey into 2050's futures and policy challenges.

Socientize project at ICT 2013:

• Ran their own stand on the exhibition area

• Hosted a Citizen Science Workshop on the 7th November, attended by more than 45 people that offered their ideas and suggestions for the project’s Green Paper.

• Figure 7. Socientize stand at Vilnius ICT 2013.


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3.3 GENERAL PUBLIC EVENTS

European Researchers Night 2014, Coimbra, 26th September 2014.

One of the Portuguese consortiums for the European Researchers Night of 2014 and 2015 is the partnership between the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, the National Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon and Lisbon Municipal Council (http://www.noitedosinvestigadores.org).

The motto for this biannual project is Citizen Science. This way, SOCIENTIZE was invited to coordinate a special area dedicated to citizen science and citizen science projects in Coimbra where visitors could experience a series of activities aimed at the understanding and getting involved with citizen science projects.

Apart from a kiosk with SOCIENTIZE applications, the interactive activities and our citizen science exhibition, we invited other citizen science projects running at the University of Coimbra to be present namely, invasoras.pt (http://www.invasoras.uc.pt) – a project about monitoring invasive plants -, the ECOFINDERS project (http://ecofinders.dmu.dk/) – an European project about the understanding of the role of soil biodiversity in ecosystem functioning - and a Chemistry Department of the University of Coimbra new project about the monitoring of bivalve molluscs. All these projects prepared interactive activities for the general public that were a great success.

Dissemination material as flyers and pins were given to visitors. More than 1000 people attended the event.

Figure 8. Collage of the Citizen Science Area at the European Researchers Night 2014.

Citizen Science Exhibition Tour, Portugal, March - September 2014.

In order to increase the network of contacts and the number of citizens getting in touch with the concept of citizen science in Portugal, a 6 roll-ups exhibition explaining what is citizen science and presenting SOCIENTIZE and its applications was prepared by the University of Coimbra (UC) and the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra. The exhibition was entitled

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“Towards a better society of empowered citizens and enhanced research” and was first presented at the UC Cultural Week.

Figure 9. Photos of the exhibition.

Different institutions were contacted to host the exhibition including secondary schools, universities and municipal libraries (Table 1). The team also offered the possibility of performing a workshop about Citizen Science to all the invited institutions. According to all interested parts, a agenda was prepared to tour the exhibition all over Portugal. A total of 16 venues hosted the citizen science exhibition most of which were municipal libraries.

Table 1. Agenda of the “Citizen Science – Towards a better society of empowered citizens and enhanced research” exhibition tour.

Beginning Ending Venue

03/03/2014 06/03/2014 Science Museum of the University of Coimbra

14/03/2014 19/03/2014 Dolce Vita Coimbra

20/03/2014 20/03/2014 Astronomical Observatory of the University of Coimbra

31/03/2014 04/04/2014 Escola Cooperativa da Benedita (Alcobaça)

21/05/2014 23/05/2014 Higher School of Education (Coimbra)

27/05/2014 30/05/2014 Pombal Secondary School

31/05/2014 01/06/2014 Pombal Youth Fair

05/06/2014 08/06/2014 Dolce Vita Porto

09/06/2014 14/06/2014 Macedo de Cavaleiros Municipal Library

16/06/2014 27/06/2014 Castelo Branco Municipal Library

07/07/2014 18/07/2014 Figueira da Foz Municipal Library

21/07/2014 25/07/2014 Eduardo Lourenço Municipal Library (Guarda)

28/07/2014 02/08/2014 Rocha Peixoto Municipal Library (Póvoa do Varzim)

18/08/2014 22/08/2014 Faro Municipal Library

08/09/2014 14/09/2014 Mêda Municipal Library

15/09/2014 25/09/2014 D. Miguel da Silva Municipal Library (Viseu)

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Amongst the institutions hosting the exhibition, three (Table 2.) invited the team to perform the workshop on Citizen Science. Around 30 people attended the workshop.

Table 2. Agenda of citizen science workshops done in the context of the exhibition itinerancy.

Date of the event Venue Expected Attendance Attendance

10/07/2014 Figueira da Foz Municipal Library 12 15

18/08/2014 Faro Municipal Library 8 4

14/09/2014 Mêda Municipal Library 7 10

Citizen Science Award and Recognition Ceremony, Coimbra, 27th June 2014.

The Citizen Science Award and Recognition Ceremony was planned to highlight the citizen role in the production of scientific knowledge and to recognize all the Portuguese participants engaged with SOCIENTIZE and Ibercivis in the last two years. The event took place on June 27 at the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra.

The ceremony started with a tour to the Zoological Gallery of the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, followed by an opening session at the Science Museum where Paulo Gama Mota leaded a session called “Citizen Science: what kind of social engagement in science?”. After that, the awards were delivered by three key-persons (Rosalia Vargas, President of Ecsite and Ciência Viva; João Fernandes, Professor at the University of Coimbra and responsible the dissemination office of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra; and also Carlos Duarte, Vice-president and member of the Board of Directors of the Centre of Neurosciences and Cell Biology of the University of Coimbra) to the awarded participants.

The winners of the “School of Scientists” contest were awarded with Microsoft SurfaceRT tablets (for students), entrances to science museums and the distinction “School of Scientists” (for schools).

Next, most active senior participants were also recognized for their effort and engagement with honourable mentions. The ceremony ended after the sharing of personal experiences with SOCIENTIZE from the awarded participants and a pleasant snack to celebrate the outcomes. One hundred and twenty people attended to the ceremony.

Video:

• Ceremony video

Figure 10. Guided Tour to the Zoological Gallery of the Science Museum of UC.

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Figure 11. Schools trophy (on the left) and honorable mention for seniors (on the right).

Figure 12. First (on the left) and second (on the right) awarded students, winners of “School of

Scientists” contest.

Figure 13. Awarded senior university students (on the left) and school representatives (on the

right), winners of “School of Scientists” contest.

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Figure 14. Guests of the Award Ceremony, volunteers of SOCIENTIZE project.

Citizen Science at the Moll, Porto and Coimbra, 5-8th June and 13-16th March 2014.

In an attempt to reach a wider audience, SOCIENTIZE contacted Dolce Vita Coimbra and Porto shopping centres to promote citizen science and SOCIENTIZE project.

A citizen science booth was developed composed by the itinerary exhibition and a set of three hands-on activities for children where they could play with words, learn about the sun by building one of their own, see microorganisms under the microscope and also understand how to analyse the quality of a river by identifying which bugs live in it.

The booth was in Coimbra between March 13 and 16, 2014 and in Porto between June 5 and 8, 2014. Unlike the itinerary exhibition, which was always available to visit, the hands-on activities were only available in the following schedule since they required staff:

Coimbra, Portugal Friday: 16h00-20h00/21h30-23h00 Saturday: 11h00-13h00/15h00 - 20h00/21h30-23h00 Sunday: 11h00-13h00 e das 15h00-18h00 Porto, Portugal Saturday (10h00 - 18h00) Sunday (10h00 - 17h00) Flyers and pins were offered to all visitors. About two hundred people participated in the hands-on activities.

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Figure 15. Flyer “Everybody has a scientist inside” to promote Dolce Vita initiative.

Figure 16. Promoting Citizen Science in Dolce Vita of Coimbra (on the left) and in Dolce Vita

Porto (on the right).

“SUN4ALL – The Sun is for everyone!” Event, Coimbra, 20th March 2014.

On March 20th took place an event around Sun4All project to celebrate spring arrival. Allied with the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Coimbra, SOCIENTIZE offered the possibility for everyone to observe the Sun with a telescope, a visit to the spectroheliograph and a talk to present the Sun4All project and meet the principal investigator João Fernandes. About 60 people, children, adults and 50+ adults attended.

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Figure 17. Collage of photos taken at the Sun4All event.

Videos

• On the Sun4All application in Youtube.

• Sun4All Event in UCV. (In Portuguese).

Cultural Week of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 1-9th March 2014.

Every year the University of Coimbra promotes a Cultural Week under a different theme engaging in its activities all the university community and the general public. The theme for 2014 was “Networks”.

The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra participated offering to visitors a set of activities around Citizen Science and SOCIENTIZE Project. An interactive kiosk for visitors to get in contact with SOCIENTIZE applications was prepared, an itinerary exhibition called “Citizen Science – Towards a Better Society of Empowered Citizens and Enhanced Research” was presented, a round table called “Citizen Science – A Link Between Science and Society” was gathered, and for the youngest, a set of two hands-on activities was developed directly linked to Cell Spotting and Sun4All applications. A total of 1060 visitors attended.

During the round table a very interesting discussion occurred covering many topics addressed in the Green and White Papers such as nature of citizen science projects, projects sustainability, researchers evaluation and intellectual property. An overview of the main conclusions can be found in section 6. of deliverable D3.2.2.

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Figure 18. Round Table “Citizen Science – A

Link Between Science and Society”

Figure 19. Multimedia Kiosk and Itineracy

Exhibition “Citizen Science – Towards a Better Society of Empowered Citizens and

Enhanced Research.

Figure 20. Hands-on activities.

Videos

• Cultural Week activities in UCV. (In Portuguese).

• Cultural Week activities. (In Portuguese).

Science and Technology Week, Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 19-24th November 2013.

Science and Technology week was celebrated in the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra between 19 and 24 of November 2013 where visitors could talk to scientists, assist to seminars, participate in a live science show or have a thematic dinner. On November 21th, took place a seminar called “The application of digital technologies in Science Communication. Rui M. M. Brito, from the University of Coimbra, presented the SOCIENTIZE project in a talk entitled “Citizen Science in Digital Age: the example of the SOCIENTIZE project”.

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3.4 SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES

3.4.1 SPAIN

PROGRAMA CIENCIA CIUDADANA E INTELIGENCIA COLECTIVA.

Starting February 2014, the “PROGRAMA CIENCIA CIUDADANA E INTELIGENCIA COLECTIVA” involved 1.000 students of Secundaria y Bachillerato from 36 high schools. These students had work in citizen science sessions in Instituto Universitario de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos, BIFI, from the University of Zaragoza via a MOU signed between the Education Department of the regional government of Aragón , BIFI and Ibercivis foundation.

All attendant students received their signed certification certifying their involvement in this program of citizen science and collective intelligence.

Figure 21. Students’ diploma for participation in the Citizen Science and Collective Intelligence

Programme.

The goal was to develop scientific and dissemination activities in order to enrich the contents of their linguistic,biology or physic classes using Socientize’s experiments such as Cell Spotting, Mind Paths and SavingEnergy @ Home.

Teachers highlighted the improvement on academic results of students participating in the program over their colleagues that didn’t.

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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. PROGRAM YOUNG ENGINEERS

The Program Young Engineers introduces Universidad de Zaragoza, EINA college students, into the technical platforms required for deploying citizen science experiments. This program is developed in workshops in cooperation with prof. Javier Zarazaga.

Figure 22. Young engineers program, Zaragoza, Spain.

The total number of young engineers involved in the school year of 2013/14 is 36.

3.4.2 PORTUGAL

PUBLIC SESSION OF SOCIENTIZE

This session was organised to act as the public starting point of SOCIENTIZE inside the school environment. In spite of being open to the public in general, it was decided to make the first public presentation of SOCIENTIZE in a school, inviting teachers and students to come and meet SOCIENTIZE.

This session took place on the 9th of October 2013 in the auditorium of Quinta das Flores Secondary School with 300 attendants. In this session the concept of citizen science and SOCIENTIZE was presented by sharing the testimonials of different actors: a scientist involved with a citizen science project, a teacher expectations and a citizen scientists experience.

This event also offered the opportunity to present two initiatives developed for the school community during the academic year of 2013/2014: the contest “School of Scientists” and the workshop “Citizen Science goes to school” which are described below.

A video of the event can be found here.

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Figure 23. Public Session of Socientize at the auditorium of Quinta das Flores Secondary

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Figure 24. Invitation Flyer for the Public Session of Socientize.

CITIZEN SCIENCE GOES TO SCHOOL

This activity intended to invite schools having a “Citizen Science Day” promoted by SOCIENTIZE and Ibercivis (http://www.ibercivis.pt/escolas). The idea was to have a one hour session where the school community would be introduced to the citizen science concept, the citizen science experiments, to the project and experiments and finally, to motivate students to participate in the national contest “School of Scientists”.

After this session, a “Citizen Science Forum” was established in a public area of the school so everyone could experiment citizen science and start participating in citizen science projects. This was an activity with no costs for schools.

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All secondary schools in Portugal were contacted via postal mail introducing the activity. Only two schools contacted the team to present the workshop (Table 3).

Table 3. Schools that received “Citizen Science Goes to School” initiative.

Date of the event School Attendance

05/02/2014 Basic and Secondary School of Machico, Madeira Islands 60

31/03/2014 Benedita Cooperative College (Alcobaça) 90

Figure 25. Session on citizen science (left). Citizen Science Forum (right).

CONTEST “SCHOOL OF SCIENTISTS”

The contest “School of Scientists” (http://www.ibercivis.pt/escoladecientistas) was created in order to achieve wider attention from the school community, reaching more schools and increasing their participation. This contest resulted from a partnership between SOCIENTIZE and the project Ibercivis.

Figure 26. Logo of the “School of Scientists” contest.

The contest intended to award the most active students and schools in SOCIENTIZE and Ibercivis activities. Around 600 students and 63 school groups participated in the contest.

The prizes were Microsoft SurfaceRT to the 3 most active students and tickets to science museums or Ciência Viva Centres to the 3 most active schools. The winning teams were also awared the title “School of Scientists”. An award ceremony took place to deliver these prizes

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(see section 3.3, page 17). This contest had the support of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the Centre for Neurociences and Cell Biology (CNC/UC).

Calendar:

• Beginning of the contest – October 15th, 2013

• End of the contest– April 30th, 2014

• Winners Announcement – May 05th, 2014

• Award Ceremony – June 27th, 2014

Three ranking list were published at the contest webpage:

• The first ranking was published in December 16th, 2013.

• The second ranking was in February 28th, 2014.

• The third and final ranking was published in May 30th, 2014.

CELL SPOTTING WORKSHOPS

A group of eight secondary schools in the centre region of Portugal were contacted in order to involve Biology teachers and student in the Cell Spotting application. In May 2014, the team started contacting the schools and presenting the project to Biology teachers, so that they could include the activity during the academic year of 2013/2014.

The activities included two workshops: one for teachers and another for students, and whenever possible a videoconference with the principal investigator of Cell Spotting – José Carrodeguas Villar. The workshop for students was not initially predicted. The initial plan was to train the teachers on the use of the application and provide them with the tools and materials so that they could independently use it in class with their students. However, most teachers preferred that the team developed the activity with the students rather then doing it on their own. The videoconferences were schedule so that the contact between the researcher and the volunteers could be fostered.

The evaluation and outcomes discussion on these activities is fully described in deliverable D5.4.

Cell Spotting Workshop for Teachers

This workshop was specially designed for teachers and intended to be a session where teachers were introduced to citizen science, to the Cell Spotting project and work on the best methods to implement Cell Spotting in class.

Structured with two parts and with a duration of 120 minutes, the first part consisted of a presentation session consisting of a dialogue with the audience using a dynamic PowerPoint presentation where the concepts of citizen science and citizen scientist were introduced, the Socientize project and its applications were also presented and the national contest “School of Scientists” announced. The second part was more practical. Teachers could experiment the application to become familiarized with it and so be able to conduct a workshop on their own with students. It is also intended to open a discussion about how the application and its tools could be better adjusted to the contents lectured in class considering different levels of the Biology discipline.

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Eight workshops were made with a total of 59 teachers attending (Table 4).

Table 4. List of schools participating in the Cell Spotting Workshop for teachers and attendance details.

Date of the event School Attendance Expected

Attendance

09/09/2013 Secondary School José Falcão, Coimbra

12 11

18/09/2013 Pedro Hispano Institute, Soure 18 14

27/09/2013 Secondary School Infanta D. Maria, Coimbra

6 6

02/10/2013 Secondary School Avelar Brotero, Coimbra

4 4

16/10/2013 Secondary School Quinta das Flores, Coimbra

11 11

22/10/2013 Secondary School José Estevão, Aveiro 5 5

23/10/2013 Secondary School Jaime Cortesão, Coimbra

2 2

05/02/2014 Basic and Secondary School of Machico, Madeira Islands

10 6

Figure 27. Cell Spotting workshop for teachers.

Cell Spotting Workshop for Students

This workshop intended to get students involved with citizen science as a tool to understand science, to increase academic performance and as an opportunity to understand advance research and its methods. The workshop was delivered to 565 students with ages between 15 and 18.

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Table 5. Number of sessions of Cell Spotting workshop for students and attendance details.

Session Date School 10th 11th 12th

1 21/10/2013 Secondary School José Falcão 13

2 30/10/2013 Secondary School Jaime Cortesão 21

3 31/10/2013 Pedro Hispano Institute 41

4 13/11/2013 Secondary School José Estêvão 14









13 27/11/2013 Secondary School Infanta D. Maria 27












25 04/02/2014 Basic and Secondary School of Machico, Madeira Islands

20


24


25


25


23


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The session, with the duration between 90 and 135 minutes, was organised in three parts:

• Project presentation.

Figure 28. Cell Spotting workshop for students.

• Videoconference with José Carrodeguas Villar (when possible, Table 6) where students had the opportunity to talk with José and ask him about the life of a scientist, his investigation, scientific volunteering and so on. A total of 179 students from 5 schools participated in the videoconferences.

Table 6. Number of videoconferences with José Carrodeguas Villar and attendance details.

Session Date School 10th 11th 12th

1 21/10/2013 Secondary School José Falcão 13 2 30/10/2013 Secondary School Jaime Cortesão 21 3 31/10/2013 Pedro Hispano Institute 41 21

4 04/02/2014 Basic and Secondary School of Machico, Madeira Islands 20 24 25


• Use of the application using the didactic unit. To support the activities developed with students a didactic unit was prepared and is currently available in Portuguese, English and Spanish through the Cell Spotting application interface. In the didactic unit, the scientific problem is placed in context with students’ curricula, next José is introduced explaining the scientific problem he is trying to solve and how he is trying to solve it. In the second part of the didactic unit, readers are guided through the different steps that need to be completed to conclude a task. In the Cell Spotting application, the completion of a task required the answer to four questions related the cells in the image being analysed. To enrich the class activity, additional questions related with the properties of the cells are also presented for students to explore.

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Figure 29. Didactic unit prepared to support the use of the Cell Spotting application.

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

On April 2nd, SOCIENTIZE was invited to be part of a Seminar at the Higher School of Education of Coimbra called “Unexpected places: integrated knowledge” organized by the Basic Education course. This seminar intended to deconstruct the idea of science as apart from everyday life and to highlight the connections between different knowledge fields. A team member of SOCIENTIZE presented the communication “Citizen Science: Towards a society of empowered citizens and enhanced research” to an audience of 100 university students.

3.4.3 BRAZIL

Socientize on the AMPEL

The AMPEL is an event promoted by the Nossa Senhora de Lourdes, a school located on the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil. In this event, which occurred on November 8 and 9, 2013, the Socientize project and the Cell Spotting application were presented to the local community by a group of high school students.

The Brazilian partners, along with the teachers from the school, guided these students to talk about citizen science and to show how through projects like Cell Spotting they as citizens can help to advance science. Moreover, we also instructed the students to invite the visitors to use one other application, Libras Dictionary, so they could have a first experience with citizen science projects.

The presentation of the students occurred on the schoolyard. It had a poster showing the Socientize and Cell Spotting project, and a computer for the visitors to use the Libras Dictionary (see Figure 30). As result of this dissemination, dozens of people visited the stand and many of them have demonstrated interest for the project and its concept.

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Figure 30. The students that presented the Socientize and its projects on the AMPEL.

Citizen science as an extra class at Nossa Senhora de Lourdes School

On March 15, 2014, the Brazilian partners presented the project and this possibility to approximately 100 teachers, some of which decided to use citizen science in their classroom in the first semester of 2014.

On May 8, 2014, the Nossa Senhora de Lourdes’ school board invited us to introduce the general concept of citizen science and also the Socientize project to a group of biology teachers and high school students. After this presentation, they formed a group of 13 students (see Figure YY) to participate on an experience of usage of the Cell Spotting application.

Once per week, there was a meeting with the selected group of students and teachers at the school’s computer laboratory. At these meetings, the students were asked to complete tasks from the Cell Spotting app. This experience was guided by the project’s didactic unit, already in Portuguese.

Along with these meetings, a Google Group was created for the communication between Brazilian partners, teachers and students. This environment enabled all the members to discuss and to disseminate materials about the Socientize and the Cell Spotting.

Figure 31. A meeting with the biology teachers and the group of high school students.

3.4.4 JAPAN

Japanese students from Hokkaido University have been working with Cell Spotting experiment during theirs first year Biology classes. The total number of Japanese students involved is 69.

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3.5 RISK OF EXCLUSION GROUPS One of the objectives of the project was to engage risk-of-exclusion groups such us unemployed people, lowly educated housewives, elderly people or rural communities.

Not all identified groups were addressed. However, the team has developed intensive activities with people 50+ and started pilot activity for prison inmates.

3.5.1 PEOPLE 50+

Due to the increase of life expectancy and the low levels of fertility, the European population aging is expected to grow in the coming decades. By 2020, it is expected that 20% of the European population will be composed by people over 651. Represented by active and dedicated people willing to be involved and feel useful to others, elderly people are a key group in what concerns the achievement of a better and enhanced society. Thus, citizen science projects can be very attractive for seniors as it increases participants’ knowledge, contributes to mental training and active aging and allows to participate and to contribute to science.

To engage the senior community in the project, SOCIENTIZE team followed two distinct approaches: in Portugal, a network of third age universities was contacted to disseminate the activities proposed, while in Austria, the SOCIENTIZE experiments were disseminated in online forums which target people aged 50+.

All the activities were evaluated using data on questionnaires, focus groups and online forums. Detailed discussion of the results and main conclusions are presented in D5.4.

Face-to-face workshops

In Portugal, SOCIENTIZE established contact with RUTIS – Universities of the Third Age Network in Portugal. Three members of the network were interested in developing the activities SOCIENTIZE proposed.

The team organised a workshop similar to the one presented in schools, entitled “Citizen Science – For an Active Society in Science”. This workshop was designed to introduce the concept of citizen science and to explain and experiment SOCIENTIZE applications namely Cell Spotting, Sun4All and Mind Paths. A special “Citizen Science Package” was produced with a brief catch-up on citizen science, citizen science projects and the SOCIENTIZE project and its applications, also with guidelines to help using the applications, the didactic unit for Cell Spotting, and some other promotional materials like brochures and a pin.

The workshops had the duration of 3 to 4 hours. After the workshop, participants were invited to fill a questionnaire for evaluation of the activity and invited to continue the collaboration with the project. The Socientize team offered support via e-mail and phone that is still operational through Ibercivis team in Portugal. Four workshops were made and 43 senior students participated (Table 7).

1 COM – European Commission (2011): Demography Report 2010. Commission staff working document, Luxembourg.

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Table 7. Places, dates and attendants in workshops for seniors.

Date of the event Senior University Attendance

Expected

Attendance - teachers in parentesis

12/03/2014 Third-Age University of Esmoriz 18 18 (3)

17/03/2014 Third-Age University of Águeda 10 19

19/03/2014 Aposenior – Third-Age University of Coimbra 10 5

27/03/2014 Aposenior – Third-Age University of Coimbra 4 4

Figure 32. Collage of different moments in senior workshops.

Evaluation results of the workshop show a strong interest of participants in the Cell Spotting experiment due to the subject and purpose of the experiment. The majority of respondents think that the active involvement in scientific research is very attractive for 50+ people as it increases participants’ knowledge, contributes to mental training and active aging and allows to contribute to science. These results indicate that 50+ people are an interesting target group for citizen science projects, especially for those addressing topics of special relevance for older people.

A video with testimonials by some senior participants can be found here.

Online platforms

In addition to the initial workshop the project started to disseminate the Cell Spotting experiment via European 50+ online forums and platforms. Using existing online forums where people 50+ meet and share their experiences and interests, the project introduced the concept of citizen science in general and the Cell Spotting experiment more specifically to the 50+ target group. In particular, discussions with people 50+ focused on two German-speaking platforms: www.feierabend.de and www.anaho.de.

The group of citizens 50+ seemed to be very interested in these projects, since the discussion started just 10 minutes after the link to Socientize was posted. The feedback provided included various aspects to be improved such as (i) language: for including older German speaking people into these experiments, all instructions and descriptions need to be translated into

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German. Older people mostly do not feel that comfortable in using English, so they do not even try to start the experiment; and (ii) explanations: older people are very interested but also very careful not to make any mistakes.

Figure 33. Feierabend.de discussion forum about the Cell Spotting application.

Learning from the direct contact and fruitful discussions with older people on these platforms, led to the introduction of new material for the description of the experiment as well as the enhancement and adaptation of the handbooks to the needs presented in order to provide for more guidance and security in this group of users.

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3.5.2 PRISON INMATES

The invitation for the SOCIENTIZE team to visit the Prison of Castelo Branco was originated on the visit of the Exhibition about Citizen Science to the Castelo Branco Municipal Library that has a collaboration protocol with the city prison.

The people responsible for the prison have the desire to establish cooperation protocols with different universities in order to broaden the horizon of their inmates, offering them better perspectives once they are inserted again in the general population.

The project that attracted them most was Sun4All. The team first idea was to prepare a workshop similar to the one presented for schools and seniors. First, the project would be presented and then the participants would analyse the images available in the platform as prisons are equipped with computers however no internet access was possible. Also, the responsible for the educational program would like to give the inmates with a real hands-on experience with Science, for example viewing the sun through a telescope.

On the 24th of July, with the collaboration of our team partner responsible for the Sun4All application, the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Coimbra, SOCIENTIZE visited the inmates at the Castelo Branco Prison, presenting a talk about the Sun and its properties. Next, and because the use internet was not permitted, the inmates analysed sun images off-line by using paper and pencil. Finally, in the common yard, they made observations of the Sun using a solar telescope.

Figure 34. Collage of the Sun4All activity at the Castelo Branco.

About fifty inmates participated in this successful activity.

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4 MEDIA

4.1 ARTICLES

Citizen science can lower costs and increase excellence in research, Science Business, Fermín Serrano. 21st January, 2014.

Engaging citizens in science for research excellence, ISGTW, Fermín Serrano. 16th October, 2013.

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4.2 ONLINE AND PRINTED JOURNALS

4.2.1 SPAIN

SONAR website.

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El Periódico de Catalunya, 12th June 2014.

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Heraldo de Aragón, 20th May 2014.

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Heraldo de Aragón, 5th February 2014.

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4.2.2 PORTUGAL

Activities with prison inmates, 24th July 2014.

ionline

Ciência Hoje

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Campeão das Províncias

Diário As Beiras

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Citizen Science Exhibition visiting Guarda

Jornal A Guarda, 20th July 2014.

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SOCIENTIZE Award and Recognition Ceremony, 27th June 2014

Notícias de Coimbra

Diário As Beiras

Diário de Coimbra

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Partnership with the Portuguese League Against Cancer, 21th April 2014.

Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro

RCMPharma

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Sun4All event at the beginning of Spring, 20th March 2014.

Diário de Coimbra

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Senior community activities, 12th, 17th and 27th March 2014.

Diário de Coimbra

Rádio Terra Nova

Diário de Aveiro

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SOCIENTIZE in Madeira, 31th January – 7th February 2014.

Tribuna da Madeira

dnoticias.pt

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Jornal de Notícias Madeira

Jornal da Madeira

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Destak, 6th January 2014.

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PT Jornal, 5th December 2013.

Tv Ciência Online, 5th December 2013.

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SOCIENTIZE activities in schools, 31th October 2013.

Diário As Beiras

Diário de Coimbra

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SOCIENTIZE and “School of Scientists” Contest Public Presentation, 9th October 2013.

Público, 7th October 2013.

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DGEstE – Directorate General of Schools, Portugal

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Campeão das Províncias

Tvi24

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Visão

Jornal Açores 9

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Diário de Coimbra, 10th October 2013. (Regional newspaper)

Diário As Beiras, 10th October 2013. (Regional newspaper)

Jornal de Notícias, 10th October 2013. (National newspaper)

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4.2.3 DIGITAL AGENDA FOR EUROPE

Project SOCIENTIZE announces White Paper on Citizen Science at their final conference, 25th September 2014.

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Conference on Citizen Science in Europe, 4th September 2014.

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SOCIENTIZE project participates to Collective Music Experiment in Sónar Festival, 12-14 June 2014, 5th June 2014.

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Every citizen a scientist? An EU project tries to change the face of research, 20th June 2014.

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4.3 RADIO AND TELEVISION

4.3.1 RADIO

Radio 3 Interview, 14th June 2014, Spain.

Caminhos da Investigação @ RUC, 12th November 2013, Portugal.

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Dias do Futuro, Antena 1, 11th November 2013, Portugal.

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4.3.2 TELEVISION

Edição da Manhã, SIC Notícias, 21st August 2014, Portugal.

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4.4 VIDEO PRODUCTIONS

SOCIENTIZE IN ACTION! A video resuming the activities of Socientize project in the last two years!

Collective Music Experiment Sónar2014

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Sun4All application video

A playlist of all videos produced can be found here.

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5 WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA

5.1 WEBSITE Operation and maintenance of the SOCIENTIZE website (http://www.socientize.eu) plays an essential role in dissemination activities as it provides information about the project, its achievements, events, news and work progress. It has been available since the start of the project and his Internet URL has been referred to in all printed materials and merchandising.

Some new features were added to the main website added during this year:

• new experiments links, and

• twitter module in homepage.

Monitoring website. We started to capture some traffic analytics using the Google analytics tool by March 2013 in http://www.SOCIENTIZE.eu web page. Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google. It generates some detailed statistics about a website's traffic. It is implemented with page tags, i.e. a snipped of JavaScript, that the website owner adds to every page of the website. This tracking code runs in the client browser when the client browses the page and collects visitor data and sends it to Google data collection server as a part of a request for a web beacon. Full description of the website statistics are presented in deliverable D3.3.2.

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Total number of single user sessions was 13.612.

Website for the Online Consultation for the White Paper. A special website was developed to collect contributions for the White Paper process. It was developed on the open source C-based platform allows contributors everywhere in the world, share, discuss and publish their ideas about the Green Paper basis.

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5.2 TWITTER

SOCIENTIZE Twitter account is run under the user name @SOCIENTIZE. Name has been registered just after renaming project in order to make an easy-to-remember Twitter identity. SOCIENTIZE Twitter account is active since December 2012. The current data are shown in next figure:

@SOCIENTIZE has published 1.057 tweets, has 614 followers and follows 291 twitter feeds.

Twitter messages have become a fast, efficient way to keep in touch all the people involve or interested in the project. SOCIENTIZE’s twitter messages are replicated in the home page of website, and in the SOCIENTIZE’s Facebook wall automatically.

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5.3 FACEBOOK

SOCIENTIZE’s Facebook is the other social media bid for the dissemination of the project. Popular and easy to use, has been launched 25th February 2013.

SOCIENTIZE Project Facebook has reached 533 likes.

Additionally, the Portuguese team also created a national version of the Facebook, called SOCIENTIZE Portugal, in October 2013. Here, all activities were disseminated. It has reached 621 likes.

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5.4 LINKEDIN

The last social media dissemination action has been to participate in http://www.linkedin.com group Citizen Science, an open space on LinkedIn owned by SOCIENTIZE and focused on echoing project’s main messages to the LinkedIn users interested on Citizen Science activities.

Group reached 160 members.

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5.5 PORTUGUESE NEWSLETTER A newsletter concerning Socientize activities and outcomes was developed and sent to a mailing list of 70 subscribers. Most of them are teachers, students and other citizens who were directly involved in SOCIENTIZE activities.

Six newsletters were sent: #1 – 22/10/2013; #2 – 20/11/2013; #3 – 17/12/2013; #4 – 26/02/2014; #5 – 14/04/2014; #6 – 17/06/2014

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6 MOU & PARTNERSHIPS

CASA DAS CIÊNCIAS

MOU signed with Casa das Ciências, Portugal, to keep working the Cell Spotting experiment for the Portugal teachers and students. A package with all the necessary information for the teachers to develop the Cell Spotting activity in classes is now available.

PORTUGUESE LEAGUE AGAINST CANCER

The Portuguese League Against Cancer (PLAC) partnership was established with the regional delegation of Madeira and Coimbra. This partnership included the integration of Cell Spotting workshop in their educational program for volunteers and schools and the promotion of Cell Spotting using their official website and social media. The PLAC Facebook account is the world biggest in what concerns cancer topics with more than 674,000 fans and a "total week reach" of 2 million people.

CENTER OF HIGHER STUDIES OF UC

The Center of Higher Studies of the University of Coimbra, located in Alcobaça (Leiria), reached Socientize in the beginning of the year 2014 in order to promote Science among their

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community. They are very active and work closely with a group of concerned citizens who tries to keep their city alive and culturally active. Several ideas were discussed for different audiences but it was only possible to work with the school community (Benedita Cooperative College). Future events for general public and activities for seniors were also discussed.

GEOBSERVER

Geobserver is a project that aims to collect information of Serra da Estrela mountains and organize it for public access so it can be used for research and for cultural and patrimonial preservation of the site. To engage citizens, Geobserver developed an initiative called “Let’s create the Serra da Estrela Biodiversity Map” and also education activities like a camping at Serra de Estrela for university students and motivated citizens about how to identify fauna and flora.

As a partner, SOCIENTIZE promoted their activities and also supplied them by giving briefcases, fauna and flora guidelines and dissemination materials about citizen science.

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7 DISSEMINATION MATERIALS

BUTTON “I AM A SCIENTIST”

BUTTON “EU FAÇO CIÊNCIA!”

Printed hardcopy of Socientize’s Green Paper for distribution at events.

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LEAFLET

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CONTRIBUTE POSTCARDS AND MAIL BOX - Postcards distributed at events in order to receive feedback from visitors.

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WHITE PAPER HARD COPY - Printed hardcopy of Socientize’s Green Paper for distribution at events.

SOCIENTIZE POLO SHIRTS - Socientize polo shirts as “uniform” wear in events and meetings.

Documents

SOCIENTIZE SOCiety as Infrastructure for EScience via ... · Deliverable name Annual report of dissemination activities ... INTRODUCTION ... and Antimatter, by Michael Doser, Researcher