CHARM ON: Citizen Science in Action

Each drop-in session features a panel discussion with invited guests from across the CHARM-EU community. The panels will include educators, researchers, students, and staff, bringing real-world perspectives on applying CHARM-EU’s approaches. Discussions of the series may motivate participants to dive deeper into CHARM-EU good practices in our Service Portfolio.

This month, our panel turns to Citizen Science in Action. Panellists — Anna Sànchez, Isabelle Bonhoure and Josep Perelló (UB), Roger Strand (UiB), and László Róbert Zsiros (ELTE) — will reflect on the principles, affordances, and values of doing research with communities, foregrounding its social dimensions: social commitment, collaboration, communication, learning (formal and informal), and evidence-based action.

Through grounded examples from their own projects, they’ll explore ethical, methodological, and practical challenges, while sharing how they mobilise local partners and co-design participation. Rather than a one-size-fits-all recipe, the session offers starting points to ideate, design, contribute to, or lead just transparent projects and collaborations that connect academic rigour with societal needs. The event will be facilitated by Nicolas De Keyser (HRW) and Alex Arenas (UM).

This event is open to all CHARM-EU members and anyone beyond who is curious to learn. No registration is required.

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