Accepted Poster
Poster Short Abstract
The Flemish knowledge center for citizen science, Scivil, is developing a global repository of citizen science initiatives in freshwater management and hydrology. The platform is now live and with this poster, we aim to engage the community in sharing their project and experiences on the platform.
Poster Abstract
This repository will (a) allow policy makers to consolidate knowledge from existing water management and hydrology projects from around the world, (b) facilitate researchers and project initiators to develop new or optimize current citizen science projects in water management and hydrology, and (c) identify gaps in current citizen science and water practices.
The repository will be an online platform created for and by the community of actors working citizen science and water and will be embedded in the UNESCO IHP-IX program. It is created using a co-creative approach to make sure it offers an added value for those that will be using it. Throughout a series of workshops, different needs from the community have been captured and are used as a basis for the development of the platform.
With this poster, we like to (a) showcase the platform, and (b) gather input from the European citizen science community on their projects and on potential opportunities and barriers they see to benefit from the platform on the longer term.
The project Citizens4Water is funded by the Flemish Government (Belgium) and takes place withing the UNESCO IHP-IX program.
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