TIME4CS aims at facilitating a way in which the scientific ecosystem could better take societal views into consideration by supporting Research Performing Organizations – i.e. research entities such as universities and research centres – in defining and implementing institutional changes that can lead to a better and more effective engagement of citizens in research and innovation. Those institutional changes inside RPOs will entail transformation of their governance systems by taking into account both the social – mindset of people inside the organization – and the organizational – norms, protocols, procedures, policy – aspects of RPOs. To facilitate this process, TIME4CS has identified 4 Intervention Areas that alone or combined can stimulate the institutional changes necessary to promote public engagement in R&I activities: Research; Education and Awareness; Support resources and Infrastructure; Policy and Assessment.
For each Intervention Area, a set of Grounding Actions (GA) will be defined. The Grounding Actions are to be considered as seeds to be sown, paving the way to Institutional Changes within research institutions. TIME4CS builds on the close collaboration between Front-Runners – RPOs with a comprehensive expertise in Citizen Science and that have already undergone Institutional Changes and Implementers – beneficiaries still in the early stage of the institutional adoption and/or maintenance of Citizen Science in their organizations.
Project funding:
The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation “Horizon 2020”
Period of project implementation: 2021-01-01 - 2023-12-31
Project coordinator: AGENZIA PER LA PROMOZIONE DELLA RICERCA EUROPEA (APRE)
Project partners: Aarhus University, University of Zurich, University of Zurich, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Cowdhelix Limited (CHX IE), University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (TUCC), Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (UniSR), University College London, European Science Foundation (ESF)
