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Developing Citizen Science

24 March 2025 - 26 March 2025 Budapest
24
March
2025
26
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2025

Developing Citizen Science: Budapest

The ECS Academy and the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group will host an in-person course ‘Developing Citizen Science: Budapest’. The event, held on the 24-26 March 2025 in Budapest, Hungary, is open to librarians and information professionals from LIBER Member institutions and beyond. The event is organised in collaboration with the Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Goals of the course

The aim of this 2,5 day training course is to spread the knowledge and experience of research libraries’ Citizen Science work within establishing hubs, services, and infrastructures and coupling this with research and social impact.

What you’ll learn and do:

●       Present the opportunities and challenges for research libraries
●       Connect this to the European research agenda
●       Present original research and perspectives from CS-researchers
●       Dig into examples
●       Address strategy
●       Potentially start new partnerships
●       Allow participants to set the right course and get started

Is this Citizen Science course for me? 

The participants will be librarians and information professionals representing institutions from Central and Eastern Europe. 
Participation is free of charge. Participants will pay for their own travel, accommodation and networking dinner on the first night.

Maximum 25 participants, both LIBER members & non-members are welcome to join.

Deadline for registrations: Friday, 14 March 2025 or until maximum participant capacity is reached.

If you’re interested in best practices, societal impact, or how to kick off Citizen Science in your library – we warmly invite you to sign-up by completing the form below:

REGISTRATION FORM

Programme

  • Monday, 24 March

    11:00–12:00 Sandwich lunch
    12:00–17:00 Afternoon session: Working with Citizen Science

    • Welcome: Short self-introduction, who is who, how involved with CS
    • What CS is, what are library skills, and why and how do researchers get
      involved?
    • Best SDU practices, reflections and dialogue (Anne Kathrine Overgaard & Thomas
      Kaarsted)
    • 17:30 Dinner at a restaurant near the library (individually covered)

  • Tuesday, 25 March

    9:00–10:30 Morning session

    • The ECS Academy and working with public libraries (Cléa Montanari)
    • Citizen Science at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Stefan Wiederkehr)
    • The CS library roadshow in Hungary (Dóra Kalydy)
    • Citizen Science at the Metropolitan Szabó Ervin Library (Ágnes Koreny)

    10:30 Break
    10:45 Workshop: How to kick off CS in my library (Anne Kathrine and Thomas)
    12:00 Sandwich lunch
    13:00–15:45 Afternoon session: How to organise Citizen Science
    Workshop: BESPOC and the LibOCS project. Sharing ideas on how to kick off CS,
    experiences and how to find the right fit for your library (Tiberius Ignat)
    15:45–16:00 Break
    16:00–17:00 EU funds, societal impact, and where to look for money (Anne Kathrine and Thomas)
    17:00 Finger foods and drinks. Location: the Library (provided by organisers)

  • Wednesday, 26 March

    8:30 Morning coffee
    9:00–12:00 Dialogue sessions. The morning allows participants to visit the ‘shops’ of the
    organisers for in-depth dialogue and actions including the challenges of Citizen
    Science.

    • Building cases on Citizen Science (Cléa)
    • Citizen Humanities and Special Collections (Stefan)
    • BESPOC (Tiberius)
    • Best Practices (Anne Kathrine and Thomas)
    • How to get started (Ágnes and Dóra)