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Building networks of trust between citizen science networks and Living Labs in policy making, focusing on the citizen science networks, understanding sandboxing as a framework for making living labs attractive to policy makers, and knowledge brokerage between institutions in the quadruple helix.

Abstract

Citizen scientists are taking an active role in collecting data, analysing data sets, contributing to study design, or disseminating results for policy action. Using the living lab model, citizen science projects can build scientific data sets or policy recommendations, or management action for actionable policies in democratic governance systems. Living Labs can support interdisciplinary research on Biodiversity citizen science projects, which involve monitoring of the natural world and collecting data about the natural environment that requires research and policy actors to engage with volunteer-driven networks. Living labs offer a methodology for understanding these networks, and can help to develop effective and just partnerships for biodiversity conservation that contribute to sustainable collaborative and creative innovation ecosystems with industry, academia, government, and other civil society groups.

Policy from the EU to the national level needs to percolate into regulations, norms, and standards, requiring citizen scientists to understand the kinds of evidence admissible in environmental compliance monitoring and judicial evaluation enforcement. Evisights will provide inputs on the role of citizen science and living labs in regulatory learning to gather the evidence needed to propose new or revised measures (top-down) or to gain insights from emerging innovation activity in an experimentation space (bottom-up), exploring the opportunity of using interoperability regulatory sandboxes as fora to create regulatory learnings. We will refer to conceptual work and data coming from the ENFORCE project, developing innovative solutions that aim to tackle the frequent mismatch between the environmental data gathered by citizens and what authorities require for enforcement purposes.