Description du projet
Comment développer la citoyenneté environnementale
La pratique de la participation publique et de la collaboration dans la recherche scientifique pour améliorer les connaissances scientifiques s’appelle la science citoyenne. Ses avantages sont bien connus. Cependant, le rôle du citoyen dans le processus et le rôle de la science citoyenne dans le soutien de la citoyenneté environnementale ne sont pas entièrement compris. Le projet EnviroCitizen, financé par l’UE, examinera dans quelle mesure la science citoyenne encourage et améliore la citoyenneté environnementale et favorise la durabilité environnementale en engageant les citoyens dans des activités environnementales. Le projet mettra l’accent sur les activités d’observation des oiseaux pour évaluer le développement de l’engagement citoyen et la manière dont ces activités incitent les citoyens à s’investir dans la citoyenneté environnementale. Les résultats seront utilisés pour élaborer des programmes scolaires multilingues et des événements publics afin d’accroître la participation au comptage des oiseaux et de sensibiliser la population à la citoyenneté environnementale.
Objectif
While many projects have stressed the scientific quality of citizen science activities, there has been less inquiry into the ‘citizen’ part of the phrase ‘citizen science’. EnviroCitizen proposes that the social capacity potential of citizen science extends to the very roots of what it means to be a citizen of the planet. We want to understand the ways in which citizen science involvement has been and could be in the future used to cultivate environmental citizenship, which encompasses new ways of thinking and acting in all aspects of life to promote environmental sustainability.
The EnviroCitizen project brings together seven partners in Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, and Cyprus to uncover the processes by which citizen scientists working in environmental-based activities can strengthen their environmental citizenship. We have selected to study birding activities because they hold great potential for developing environmental citizenship. We will (1) assess the evolution of citizen involvement in citizen science birding activities; (2) evaluate how citizens learn about and enact environmental citizenship through their citizen science birding activities; and (3) develop innovative community interventions designed to complement existing citizen science birding programs in order to cultivate environmental citizenship in the future. We will create new knowledge and community interventions in six different languages and cultures across Europe through an ambitious multi-language school-based educational program and public engagement events to both increase participation in existing bird counting activities and raise environmental citizenship as a deliberate outcome of involvement in these activities. We have engaged ornithology non-profit organizations as supporting external groups in the project in order to facilitate the research tasks as well as uptake and impact of the project’s intervention deliverables.
Régime de financement
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
4021 Stavanger
Norvège