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Project

An Ecosystem of Citizen Observatories for Environmental Monitoring (WeObserve)

Description:

WeObserve is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) focused on the improvement of the Citizens Observatories (COs) capacities. The project aims at increasing the coordination between existing Citizen Observatories and related regional, European and international activities, in order to address the environmental challenges and help to move citizen science into the mainstream.

The specific objectives can be summarised as follows:

  • Develop communities of practice around key topics to assess the current CO knowledge base and strengthen it to tackle future environmental challenges using CO-driven science;
  • Extend the geographical coverage of the CO knowledge base to new communities and support the implementation of best practices and standards across multiple sectors; 
  • Demonstrate the added value of COs in environmental monitoring mechanisms within regional and global initiatives such as GEOSS, Copernicus and the UN Sustainable Development Goals; 
  • Promote the uptake of information from CO-powered activities across various sectors and foster new opportunities and innovation in the business of in-situ earth observation.

The project includes a wide range of open access tools developed by WeObserve’s partners.

 

ECCA 2021 - Climate Adaptation solutions video - WeObserve

Project information

Lead

International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Partners

IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE-DELFT), The Netherlands;

Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Spain;

Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece;

University of Dundee (UNIVDUN), UK;

European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), Germany;

Alto Adriatico Water Authority (AAWA), Italy.

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Published in Climate-ADAPT Feb 07 2022   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12 2023

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