Although we are indeed working on a European project, we must be aware that the European Commission has set out to lead actions against climate change. Our framework of action is not exclusively Europe, as if this were a technology that only serves Europe. In fact, while climate change action is important in Europe, it is almost insignificant in terms of carbon emissions compared to the rest of the world. This is why AURORA, from the beginning, has been working to ensure that the impact of our actions is global and not just local. We are creating alliances and strongly insisting with international organizations, such as the UN Science Policy Business Forum (UNSPBF ) and the Citizen Science Global Partnership (CSGP ) as well as the EU Climate Pact responsible, for launching Global Citizen Science environmental programs based on successful local cases.
The Stockholm Environment Institute has only identified five programs acting in this direction, on of them is AURORA. Therefore, AURORA must demonstrate how different citizen science models can be globally useful. Our goal is to be able to:
1. Strengthen the MEAs where Europe can play a catalytic role with its success stories.
2. Show the world how social buildings such as universities, schools, NGOs, libraries, and leisure centers in municipalities worldwide can serve as hubs of social action for collective environmental education.
3. Prove that citizen science is a tool that can obtain currently unknown data, which has a similar degree of validity to that offered by national or international statistical agencies.–
Therefore, within this framework of global action, what does AURORA complete can be summarizes it in 5 points:
1. Demosntrate a rationale for real engagement of 11,000 people working on different aspects to mitigate climate change.
2. Verify the data from the AURORA app and ensure its accuracy.
3. Validate citizen science (CS) as a tool for correlating socioeconomic factors with energy consumption and carbon emissions based on birth year, category, gender, country, and household profile, and analyze the validity of the acquired citizen data.
4. Encourage new replications and create a network of international Ambassadors to spread the word.
5. Collaborate with key organizations to train future trainees.
