Community of Practice – WeObserve
On 6 June the first three CoPs (Community of Practice) set by the WeObserve project took place at the University of Geneva. The WeObserve project launched three workshops about the dissemination activities, in order to involve the members of H2020 projects related to Citizen Observatories.
XTeam was honoured to participate to two workshops, representing the Scent Project. Scent @ScentEU aims to engage citizens in environmental monitoring and, through a highly innovative toolbox, allow the users to have a relevant impact on the policy makers. The topic of the workshops
• Co-creating citizen observatories and engaging citizens – addressing incentives and barriers for participation, engagement strategies and citizen-science ethics”
• Impact and value of citizen observatories for governance – defining socio-economic and environmental impacts of community-based environmental monitoring for public authorities and decision makers including risk evaluation