The Citizen Cyberlab is an EU ICT project funded under the 7th Framework Programme to study and foster creativity and learning in Citizen Science.

The Consortium Team consists of  seven partners:  the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR/UNOSAT), Imperial College (ICSTM), University College London (UCL), Université de Genève (UNIGE), Université Paris Descartes (UPD), and The Mobile Collective (TMC).

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Digital Tools and Web-based Platforms for Citizen Science

The CCL Platforms1. CitizenGrid: a platform for volunteer computing projects being developed by Imperial College.

2. Scientific Discovery Games: a platform for creating games for scientific discovery being developed by University Paris Descartes.

3. Platform for Collaborative Problem Solving: a platform for collaborative problem solving being developed by University College London.

The CCL Pilot Projects1. A particle physics game based on the Test4Theory project being developed by CERN.

2. A collaborative disaster mapping project being developed by UNITAR. 3. Hands-on Crowdsourcing in Synthetic Biology being developed by the University of Paris Descartes. 4. Community Learning through Extreme Citizen Science being developed by University College London.

The CCL Tools1. Creativity Incubator: a community-based project incubator for Citizen Science being developed by University Paris Descartes 2. Device-independent Environment for Data Acquisition and Understanding: an html5- based stack of tools for mobile data collection & analysis being developed by Imperial College London

3. Tools for Monitoring Community Learning, being developed by the University of Geneva.

Citizen Science is the crowd-sourced involvement of volunteers in scientific research, who perform tasks such as observation, data collection, measurement, identification, pattern recognition or computation.

At the Citizen Cyberlab, we are building Platforms, Pilot Projects and Open Source Tools to support creativity and learning in Citizen Science.

The CitizenGrid PlatformCitizenGrid provides a web-

based interface for publishing and running volunteer computing and Citizen Science applications. It allows application developers to publish distributed computing applications directly to the Citizen Science community which can then be incorporated in Citizen Science projects by application providers or run directly by Citizen Science volunteers.

Users will be able to choose between a variety of scenarios, ranging from making their own local compute power available to run applications, to utilizing cloud computing resources to run applications, or creating a mixed runtime environment. Launching a client application image is carried out from within the CitizenGrid environment. At present, CitizenGrid focuses on running volunteer application clients but later

in the development process, it will also allow application providers to run their server-side application services on cloud resources.

Our platform is the Web. And it’s powered by the Cloud.

At the Citizen Cyberlab, we are passionate about open science. For us, Citizen Science means open science. And open science means open collaboration.

Public cloud computing is a powerful tool for collaborative open science. With it, scientists can collaborate in collecting and analysing data across institutional barriers and disciplines. And they can do it at substantially lower cost.

At the Citizen Cyberlab, we develop with the cloud in mind. We try to ensure that all of our platforms and tools are web-based, cloud-enabled, and public.

With cloud resources, citizen scientists can push forward the frontier of open science. They can create their own projects. They can find participants. And they can make a difference in their own communities, as many citizen scientists have already done using the ExCites and Epicollect platforms.

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NEXT EVENTS

Nov 29 - Dec 4 Dec 13 - 15 Feb 20 - 22NEXT EVENTS Knownodes ‘Sustainathon’

Hack DayPerforming Arts Forum, St Erme, France

knownodes.com

iGam4er - International Game Competition for Education & ResearchCite des Sciences, Paris

igam4er.org

The 3rd Citizen Cyberscience SummitRoyal Geographic Society & UCL, London

cybersciencesummit.org

Evaluating Creativity and Learning in Citizen Science. At the Citizen Cyberlab, we want to understand how Citizen Science fosters

creativity and learning. Thousands of volunteers will be actively participating in real research,

using the CCL platforms, tools and pilot projects. As a result, there is a great opportunity to study creative learning on a large scale. Experts in educational technology and human-computer interaction at University of Geneva and UCL will be evaluating these to produce new understanding of creative learning behaviours, anchored in real-world examples of Citizen Cyberscience.

We also want to learn from existing Citizen Science projects and tools, and are evaluating leading examples in order to understand how they foster and support learning. Our goal is to establish best practice in these areas, and to create sustainable methods for measuring creativity and learning for any citizen project.

info@citizencyberlab.eu