Section outline

  • Learn to capture and analyse data and use the findings to take action.

    Would you like to understand the environment and other global challenges to help create change? Citizen science projects and citizen observatories are the ideal way to explore big issues, take action and become a changemaker.

    This is the first of a four-part course designed by the WeObserve project partners (see the bottom of this page for further details) that takes approximately 3-hours to complete. You need no prior knowledge of citizen science to complete this course.

    In this part we will:

    • introduce you to citizen science and citizen observatories; 
    • teach you about best-practices in the field;
    • learn how your observatory or campaign team can begin to understand an environmental issue you are concerned about using a useful mapping technique;
    • learn how to choose a question – a central part of any observatory or citizen science campaign. You'll also hear about how our observatories did this, and we'll also explore campaign design. 
    • look at how to form an active and engaged team as part of your observatory or campaign. You'll get some advice from our observatories and we'll talk about wider community-building.

    Click here to enrol in this course and use enrolment key weobserve1 to do so. Once you enrol you will be able to take quizzes and receive a badge upon successful course completion.

    The WeObserve project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 776740. The project consortium was made up of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in The Netherlands, Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications (CREAF) in Spain, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) in Greece, University of Dundee in Scotland, European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) in Germany and Autorita di Bacino dei Fiumi Isonzo Tagliamento Livenza Piave Brenta Bacchiglione (AAWA) in Italy. The entire contents of this course can also be found here: DOI 10.20933/100001193