Thursday's Parallel Workshops

Option A

Johanna Barnbeck

Thursday, 8 June, 9:00 – 15:10, RAA-E-30

Goals of the Workshop: Get to know ways in which strategic communication and underserved target audiences can be part of your Citizen Science project.  

We will address science communication as an essential part of every Citizen Science project. In your project it might be necessary to motivate specific groups to participate or to inform them about your project activities. However, initiators of citizen science projects often hesitate to seek out audiences who do not already have an interest in science or to develop creative strategies in order to reach them equally. Thus, we will zoom in on questions regarding accessibility: How could I approach underserved audiences? How do I find suitable ways to communicate when facing i.e. language barriers or cultural differences?  

Methodologically, the SciComm Format Canvas will help us to think of and implement all important aspects of our communication.

Olivia Höhener

Thursday, 8 June, 15:40 – 16:25, RAA-E-30

Finding the necessary funding is an important step in every research process and an essential part of a Citizen Science project. But with participatory research processes often not fitting the "usual" funding criteria, it can be difficult to find the perfect funder.
 
Drawing from my personal experience in research funding, we will look at different approaches to find funding bodies that suit your project idea. You will also be able to talk about your own current fundraising strategies and share success stories.
 
The goal of the input is to give you tips on how to tackle fundraising for your Citizen Science project and to enable an exchange of best practice with your peers.

Option B

Annette Jenny

Thursday, 8 June, 9:00 – 12:30, RAA-E-27

How do I achieve impact with my Citizen Science project? In this course, impact-oriented planning steps are demonstrated using examples of Citizen Science projects. The participants transfer the input step-by-step to their own projects. This provides participants with a logical project model, allowing them to plan, implement, and evaluate their projects effectively.

Learning objectives:  

Participants

• recognise the benefits of a logic model for project planning and implementation and are motivated to use it
• can structure their project objectives and goals according to the levels of a logic model
• understand the importance of precise target group differentiation and can implement it
• can plausibly derive cause-effect relationships per target group and translate them into their logic model
• can determine effective project activities based on their reflections on the cause-effect relationships

Pia Viviani

Thursday, 8 June, 14:00 – 17:30, RAA-E-27

If you think you can set up and plan your Citizen Science project on your own, think again! To find people collaborating with you in a project, you need to know who they are before you start planning too many other project details. Who are the actors and organizations you need to make your project successful? What are their interests? How can you reach them? And how do you set up a project that takes different interests into account? If you can answer all these questions, there is a good chance you will find enough citizen scientists collaborating with you.

In this workshop, we are going to use an example of a Citizen Science project and work through a checklist you can later use for your own projects.

Learning objectives:

Participants know how to

• set up a stakeholder analysis
• identify your collaborator’s interests
• catch potential collaborators' attention
• offer different levels of participation
• make people stay with you

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