The conference, Connect. Collaborate. Create. Bridging Communities for Participatory Research and Citizen Science 2023, will bring together the diverse European communities that create and support participatory research (including its funding) and citizen science. Jointly organized by the European projects COESO and PRO-Ethics, it will focus on the social sciences and humanities as well as on integrating participatory approaches at the research funding stage.

Presentation

On October 19-21, 2023 in Paris, at Aubervilliers, Campus Condorcet, we will welcome researchers, citizen science practitioners, and supporters from all backgrounds, research funding organizations, ethics and integrity experts, as well as policy makers, into a space designed for networking and mutually exploring citizen science/participatory research initiatives and services.

The conversations we want to stimulate are clustered into six core areas: 

• Participatory research, citizen science, and open science networks and infrastructures 
• Support services for participatory research and citizen science 
• Methodologies for doing and teaching citizen science and ethical participatory approaches to research, including in funding agencies 
• Data workflows and communication formats 
• Drivers and barriers for implementing, supporting, and funding citizen science, as well as participation in the processes of funding agencies 
• Assessing and evaluating participatory processes 

The “Connect. Collaborate. Create” conference opens these discussions to all attendees and welcomes the lively intermingling of different experiences and perspectives. Please join us if you recognize yourself in one of the following profiles: 

• Citizen Science practitioners and supporters, including: (SSH) Academic and professional researchers Civil society professionals and organizations (e.g. journalists, artists, social services practitioners, NGOs dedicated to societal issues, social enterprises) Engaged community members, citizen scientists and scholars Open research infrastructure representatives Librarians Country-based and European Citizen science platform and network coordinators Science shops coordinators and staff members 
• Research Funding Organization (RFO) members 
• Policy makers 
• Research managers 
• Research ethics committee members 
• Research integrity body members 
• Researchers from academia and the private sector

Programme

Thursday, October 19, 2023

08:00 - 09:00 Welcome Check-in 

• 09:00 - 09:45 Conference opening & institutional welcome Alessia Smaniotto, EHESS, COESO coordinator Hélène Le Roux, EHESS, Director of the Research development dept. European Commission representative (TBC) 
• 09:45 - 10:15 PRO-Ethics project objectives & results Stefanie Schuerz, ZSI, PRO-Ethics coordinator 
• 10:15 - 10:45 COESO project objectives & results Alessia Smaniotto, EHESS, COESO coordinator 

10:45-11:30 Coffee break 

• 11:30 - 12:45 Plenary Panel (more details on Plenary Panels here) What does it take to make citizen science grow? Models and experiences in support of participatory practices Annelies Duerinckx, Scivil Martine Legris, University de Lille Niel Coleman, University of Edinburgh Library 

12:45 - 14:30 Lunch 

14:30 - 16:00 Parallel Sessions 1.1 (more details on all sessions here) 

• 1.1A Participatory practices and local engagement: the role of community based organisations 
• 1.1B Panel discussion: Stakeholder participation in R&I and citizen science: Opportunities and responsibilities from a policy perspective 
• 1.1C Participatory Evaluation and self-assessment applied to citizen science 
• 1.1D Citizen Science Hubs and desirable futures for participatory approaches 

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 

16:30 - 17:15 Speed Searching 

17:15 - 17:45 "Be Seated" Performance 

• 17:45 - 18:15 Keynote - Katja Mayer (more details on keynote speakers here) Infrastructuring Participatory Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Bridge or Breach? 

18:30 - 20:00 Dinner 

Friday, October 20, 2023 

08:30 - 09:00 Welcome Check-in 

• 09:00 - 09:45 Keynote - Morgan Meyer (more details on Keynote Speakers here) Making Space for Citizen Science 
• 09:45 - 11:00 Plenary Panel (more details on Plenary Panels here) When funding agencies do stakeholder participation: Aspirations and ethical implications Moderated by Margaret Gold, (Leiden University) Juliana Chaves Chaparro, (UNESCO) Robert Gianni, (Maastricht University) Anne-Floor Scholvinck, (Rathenau Institut) Claire Sanilas, (Science Europe) 

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 

11:30 - 13:00 Parallel Sessions 2.1 (more details on all sessions here) 

• 2.1G Community-driven solutions for citizen science platforms and infrastructures 
• 2.1H Handling citizen science data and ethics 
• 2.1I Transcriptions participatives: methodes, outils, plateformes 
• 2.1J Mainstreaming and strenghtening Citizen Science: how do we develop policy engagement strategies across Europe? 
• 2.1K  Learning participatory research: trainings and mutual learnings spaces 
• 2.1L Training on the PRO-Ethics framework and guidelines 

13:00 - 14:15 Lunch 

14:15 - 15:45 Parallel Sessions 2.2 (more details on all sessions here) 

• 2.2M Participatory Inquiries: What research does to journalism, and vice versa 
• 2.2N Digital humanities, citizen science and the arts: synergies towards innovative formats 
• 2.2O Potential and challenges of participatory approaches to research funding 
• 2.2P Frontiers of action research with frontiers publics 
• 2.2Q Impact Assessment: a journey through methods 

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break 

16:15 - 17:15 Poster Session 

• 17:15 - 17:45 Keynote - Marzia Mazzonetto (more details on Keynote Speakers here) 

18:00 - 18:45 Speed Searching (networking opportuntity) 

18:45 Individual Networking 

For those who have previously signed up (at registration desk) for a restaurant reservation. 

Saturday, October 21, 2023 

08:30 - 09:10 Welcome Check-in 

09:10 - 10:40 Parallel Sessions 3.1 (more details on all sessions here) 

• 3.1R Responsive ethic and ethical dilemmas in participatory research 
• 3.1S Citizen science with vulnerable participants 
• 3.1T Child-focused participatory research 
• 3.1U Citizen science for water health 
• 3.1V Créations collectives et inclusives dans des contextes locaux 

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break 

11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Sessions 3.2 (more details on all sessions here) 

• 3.2W Dansophie: atelier de danse et philosophie 
• 3.2X A town by the sea: gaming climate change 
• 3.2Y Decision-making tools for community engagement and trust in science 
• 3.2Z When participatory approaches inspire new formats for communicating science 

12:30 - 13:15 Closing Session 

13:15 - 14:00 Lunch bag and Goodbye (MSH Paris Nord: Salle Panoramique)

Participation

The participation is free and accessible to everyone interested. However, the places for the workshops "Parallel Sessions" are limited. If you want to participate, please make sure to register here by Oct 4th 2023.