Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A European biodiversity project aligns with the ECSA Ten Principles when designing volunteer protocols.
- Is an instance
An ECSA working group develops a metadata standard for citizen-science datasets.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Claiming ECSA endorsement without participation in or alignment with its principles.
- Not an instance
Treating ECSA only as an outreach forum, ignoring its policy-influence role.
Editorial commentary
ECSA was founded in 2014 with headquarters at the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin. It produced the foundational 'Ten Principles of Citizen Science' in 2015, organises biennial conferences, runs working groups on data interoperability, ethics, and project development, and partners with global counterparts including the Citizen Science Association in the US and the Australian Citizen Science Association. ECSA contributed substantially to European-Commission citizen-science policy and the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.
References
- ecsa.citizen-science.net. Robinson L et al. 'Ten Principles of Citizen Science' ECSA, 2015.
Also known as
ECSA
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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