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Poster Short Abstract

By stepping over the ten-year mark, SPOTTERON Citizen Science App Platform now extends its capabilities and introduces a Co-Use Program. The Program includes several Apps running on the Platform open for CS projects to join and through that bring new synergies and opportunities in the horizon.

Poster Abstract

The idea of the SPOTTERON Citizen Science App Platform was born in 2014 with the long-term goal to provide an always-maintained, collaborative & ever-improved system to Citizen Science Projects worldwide. By stepping over the ten-year mark, SPOTTERON now extends its capabilities and introduces a Co-Use Program.

How does the SPOTTERON Co-Use Program work?

Thanks to the diverse collaborations, several Apps running on the SPOTTERON Citizen Science App Platform are open to existing Citizen Science projects to join. Each co-use partner in a project can get independent access to the platform's Data Administration Interface and its integrated tools like full regional & country-based access, data management & download, communication suite and publishing project activities on the digital map. At the moment themes like marine environment, art & culture, biodiversity and invasive species as well as urban planning are covered in the current Co-Use Program.

The recent development of the SPOTTERON Citizen Science App Platform allows reflecting on the opportunities the co-use of digital citizen science tools offer. Collaborations between projects strengthen Citizen Science, the reach of the project gets improved and synergies can emerge. This in turn shows how diversity of citizen science ideas can cross-pollinate and extend from local to international application and vice versa.

This year's conference theme allows us to celebrate this milestone which brings citizen science project collaboration possibilities to another level. The first pilot tests are on the horizon and provide ground for sharing this experience.