1^st INSTIL - cItizeN Science engagemenT based on Ict soLutions Workshop

Monday, 9th October 2023 | www.instil-science.eu

Held in eScience '23 | Limassol, Cyprus

Climate change poses major challenges to all people equally, not just scientists and politicians. Citizen science is increasingly used to engage the public in scientific processes to raise awareness and promote actions towards climate change and sustainability. In addition, citizen science represents a powerful tool for the democratization of science, the creation of multidisciplinary contexts engaging citizens, but also stakeholders, not only with the provision of data and facilities, but it has the potential to foster scientific awareness and participation.

INSTIL invites research results from scientists who have invested significant efforts in the design and development of ICT-based tools, software, serious games, eScience applications and solutions to engage the general public in science. With this perspective, the workshop will focus on various aspects of citizen (e)science activities and initiatives, from the dissemination of science up to the active participation of citizens and stakeholders in the scientific process by co-designing and co-developing new tools, networks and systems to observe, validate, elaborate, and extract knowledge from data and models.  

The general goal of the workshop is to act as a community venue to convey multidisciplinary experiences in exploring ICT solutions to raise awareness, engage and empower citizens and stakeholders in science with concrete eScience tools. The workshop will be primarily focusing on the domains of climate, climate changes and environmental related topics, but experiences from other domains are welcome as well. 

Topics

• Novel citizen science ICT solutions, serious games, and more to involve general public in science 
• Citizen engagement through ICT technologies providing easy access to scientific knowledge
• Co-design & co-development of ICT tools to engage public in the scientific processes
• Citizen science initiatives and tools going beyond data collection and bringing educational aspect back in the focus of citizen science
• Challenges and lessons learned in infrastructures and tools developed to engage citizens and stakeholders
• Data infrastructure and pipeline in the framework of citizen science projects 

Important dates

Paper submissions: 30^th June 2023 

Paper acceptance notification: 22^nd July 2023 

Camera-ready submissions: 5^th August 2023 

Workshop: 9^th October 2023

Proceeding

In conjunction with eScience in the conference proceedings at IEEE Computer Society Press, USA: For this workshop we solicit the contributions as Full Papers (6 to 10 pages), presenting previously unpublished research achievements or eScience experiences and solutions. Submitted papers should use the IEEE 8.5×11 manuscript guidelines: double-column text using single-spaced 10-point font on 8.5×11-inch pages. All submissions will be single-blind peer reviewed. Link to download the template.

SUBMISSIONS LINK

Committees

Program Committee

Antonella Passani, T6 Ecosystems

Muhammad Adnan, Universiteit Hasselt 

Gefion Thuermer, King’s Collegue London

Carlo Cintolesi, University of Bologna

Organizing committee

Antonella Galizia, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, CNR

Ulrike Falk, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts 

Joy Ommer, KAJO s.r.o.