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DATA AWARENESS ACTION
A citizen scientific conference is an event where everyone is invited and also where both scientists and citizens are considered the presenters and organizers. The premise is that everyone should be invited regardless of their position and it is a free-entrance event. During the conference, scientists present the results of the study they have conducted with citizens. Citizens are also invited to be part of the conference. For example they can present in a scientific poster session. The posters can be about the main topic investigated and citizens can decide what to present about this topic: data they have collected by themselves, peculiar observations made during the experiment they have explored, lessons learned of their personal experience throughout the project, etc.
Read the case study and understand how this tool has been used in a real citizen science project.
Atenc!ó project
The Atenció project aimed to harness the collaboration between high school students and researchers to assess whether air pollution in high schools can affect adolescents' cognitive functions. Students in 34 schools designed and runned scientific experiments to collect data on the factors that may affect attention. A citizen scientific conference was organized to present and disseminate the results of the project. All participating high schools were invited to the event. Students were asked to prepare posters about the studies they contributed to design and run.
To disseminate the preliminary results with all the participants.
To empower students in presenting and communicating scientific experiments.