Materials from the European Online Event held on 27 January 2026.
View the event programme and speakers.
Materials from the European Online Event held on 27 January 2026.
View the event programme and speakers.
Amai! (Flanders, Belgium) – Karen Verstraelen, Project Manager Citizen Science, Scivil
A citizen-science programme that invites citizens to co-create artificial-intelligence solutions to societal challenges.
Wijkwijs (Netherlands) – Dr Beitske Boonstra, Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam
A university-initiated, Rotterdam-based citizen and community research collective that supports a city-wide network of neighbourhood-based research projects.
HEROINES (Serbia) – Dr Ivan Djordjević, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Ethnography SASA
A citizen-science/citizen social-science initiative that centres Roma women, giving them a direct voice in documenting their oral histories, experiences of solidarity and emancipation, and community heritage. The project was awarded the EU Prize for Citizen Science Grand Prize in 2025 .
Creating Our Future (Ireland) – Brendan Owens, Programme Manager – Education and Public Engagement, Research Ireland
Creating Our Future was Ireland’s first national public conversation on research, carried out in 2021–2022 receiving over 18,000 submissions.
ERA Structural policy outlook – “Enhancing Trust in Science through Citizen Participation and Communication” – Dr Georgios Papanagnou, Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Mentimeter results from audience participation at the online event
Mutual Learning Exercises
Science, Society & Citizens – INSPIRING ERA page with links to ERA outcomes, EU projects and initiatives
Read more about Amai! in Citizen Science: Theory & Practice: https://theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/10.5334/cstp.732
Visit the website of Wijkwijs to learn more about our practices and events: www.wijkwijs.nl
Reports and data from the Creating our Future campaign, including the submitted 18,000 suggestions
Interview with Ivan Djordjević and information about HEROINES, winner of the 2025 EU Grand Prize for Citizen Science
The EU Prize for Citizen Science
EUSEA – The European Science Engagement Association
Open Science NL – the national programme that aims to promote and accelerate the transition to open science in the Netherlands
Let us return to the important WIDERA workshop organised by the European Commission and the European Research Executive Agency at the end of last year. Policymakers, project coordinators, National Contact Points, members of the ERA Forum and Programme Committee, and representatives of the European Commission and the European Research Executive
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101131556.