Through all the activities that made up the COESO project, two main effects resulted. First, it developed sustainable opportunities for citizen science within the social science and humanities disciplines through the knowledge exchanged in the Mutual Learning Exercises it facilitated and through the free VERA hub it created for everyone to use. Second, it increased the visibility and recognition of the SSH contribution to citizen science through experimentation with transmedia techniques, through storytelling with podcasts and mainstream magazine articles, through directly engaging funders with SSH citizen science, through the funding tool on VERA, through a link made between VERA and the EU-Citizen.Science website, and through proactive involvement with working groups within the wider European citizen science community. These two effects continue to work together, even after the project has ended, to accomplish the overall effect of increasing citizen science in the social sciences and humanities. Concretely, members of the 10 Pilots reported that they not only accomplished what they set out to accomplish, but the collaborations that took place within their individual projects led to more ideas, actions and future collaborative research plans. Additionally, the Pilot members shared a number of ways that their research collaborations improved their professional work overall. When society and academia work together, they benefit in many ways, including the creation and activation of applicable research for the common good, which ultimately leads to more evidence-based practices to solve societal issues.
