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Dear All,
we are happy to announce and remind that the first COST ENERGIC training school "VGI and Citizen Science: engaging, creating and understanding"
will take place from 7-11 July 2014 in Fattoria di Maiano, Fiesole (Firenze).
The training school is part of COST ENERGIC Activities for year 2 and it will be co-financed by EU JRC and organized in collaboration with the Vespucci Initiative.
Topic :"VGI and Citizen Science: engaging, creating and understanding"
The Summer Institute is devoted to the commonality and differences between Citizen Science and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI).
Many Citizen Science activities are geographical (e.g. ecological observations at a specific location) while many VGI activities focus on collecting facts, identifying patterns or asking questions about a locale and therefore have similarities with science activities.
Therefore issues of participation and public engagement, data quality, data integration and the analysis of information that emerge from these activities have a lot in common. The week activities will be articulated in practical scientific activities where participants will actively contribute with their knowledge, intellectual effort or with their tools and resources. Topics will cover collective intelligence, quality assurance, methodologies for data analysis, interoperability with official data sources, sustainability, governance, funding, and evaluation and impact measurements. Facilitators will provide experimental data and facilities for researchers, raise new questions and co-create a new scientific culture. Under the support of the facilitators, participants will be encouraged to explore new directions in their research, test methods from other disciplines, and experience data collection activities themselves. The summer school is open to a wide range of citizen science and VGI activities including biodiversity/conservation observations and recording; volunteer computing that involves geographic information; volunteer thinking where the tasks are geographicallocation-specific; Do It Yourself (DIY) science; and community/civic science.
Fees and regulations
Academics: €500
Business/other participants: €700
Fees include tuition, lunches, coffee breaks, one dinner, WIFI access, and a diploma of attendance.
NO FEES REQUIRED FOR COST GRANTEES
25 grants of 800 euro (for travel and hotel accommodation expenses only) which will be awarded to selected participants from the following EU countries (AT,BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, HR, HU, IE, IL, IT, LT, LU, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SK, SE, TR, UK) which are members of COST ENERGIC action
For reimbursement of travel and hotel expenses COST rules will be applied, check COST website for further details.
3 grants of 800 euro for participants from Non-COST countries
Please send an appropriate application if you wish to be considered for the grants. You can use the comments section of the application form to do so.
Please send an appropriate application if you wish to be considered for
the grants on the Vespucci Initiative web site (www. vespucci.org). You
can use the comments section of the application form to do so.
Apply with the following documents:
Motivation and position letter (up to 2 pages)
Curriculum vitae (1-page) with photo
DEADLINE for application 11 April 2014 (selection results by 30th April)
Please encourage participation from your own countries!
Looking forward to seeing you in Fiesole!
Michela
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Dott. ssa Michela Teobaldi
Ph.D. Candidate
Dip. DISPOC
Università degli studi di Siena
Via Mattioli 10 - Siena
tel +39 0577 235435
fax + 39 0577 235292
mobile +39 340 9052491
skype: michela.teobaldi
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