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The European Citizen Science Academy, an entity built under the European Citizen Science be presented and introduced to the wider citizen science community. This session will present the timeline and activities done over the past three years to develop the academy and what it seeks to achieve.

Abstract

For the past three years and half, the ECS project has been working on developing a European Citizen Science Academy. It started with the creation of a network of citizen science educators and trainers that participated in co-creating a blueprint of the ECS Academy. This blueprint represents what the ECS Academy should be ideally, from the perspective of citizen science educators and trainers. The ECS Academy developed a network of researchers, alongside the Marie Curie Alumni Association, and has leveraged the moodle system which was set in the EU-citizen.science project to include new functionalities as part of the citizensicence.eu platform.The ECS Academy seeks to 1) showcase the scope of citizen science training across the EU, 2) fill in training gaps, and 3) facilitate the work of CS educators and trainers, 4) be a reference point to learn about citizen science. This talk will showcase the ECS Academy is, what it currently includes, what it seeks to achieve, and what it has achieved during ECS.