Contributions to the research community and the broader society
Good Impact Ability - The involvement of citizens in academic projects is fundamental for several reasons. First, universities need to get closer to society. On the other hand, the project applies to generate knowledge for transparency and understanding of the investment.
The possability of participation of citizens transforms the cohesion of society by producing information collaboratively and actively, transforms them into citizen historians with more information and, as a result, enables greater recognition of the work of researchers. With this challenge, we educate citizens and empower them to make better decisions.
The participation of citizens also makes it possible to increase the scale of research processes and speed them up and do so from any part of Europe based on observations and photographic records. Not only does the researcher, by involving the citizen, bring scientific practices to the citizens, a kind of scientific education, but the researcher also offers a source of information that would otherwise not be accessible and will be a way to increment citizen participation.
After being treated and transformed into data, the information collected will be disclosed per the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).