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The collective intelligence challenge

Collaborative endeavors between scientists and civil society stakeholders have developed significantly in recent years. This growth is driven by public interest in the scientific approach and culture, as well as by the need to find solutions to complex issues (economic, social, health, environmental, cultural, educational and ethical). Digital technology has helped foster the development of this type of collaboration, drawing on both artificial and collective intelligence.

Citizen science relies on cooperation and public participation to produce knowledge in a manner that approaches the scientific, ethical, legal and technology issues of research from a broader perspective.

Finding answers together has thus become the great collective intelligence challenge of the 21st century.

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Sciences Participatives : partage d'expériences plurielles et nouveaux enjeux

Sciences Participatives : partage d'expériences plurielles et nouveaux enjeux

Cette école thématique « sciences participatives », portée par le CNRS et animée par un collectif de chercheur.ses et professionel.les impliqués dans des démarches de sciences et recherches participatives appartenant à divers organismes (CNRS, MNHN, SU, INRAE), propose aux chercheur.es souhaitant développer ou développant des approches participatives, d’avancer dans l’acquisition de compétences ...

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Médiation scientifique et recherches participatives

Médiation scientifique et recherches participatives

L’avènement de la culture numérique, et du collaboratif qui l’accompagne, ont depuis longtemps invité à enrichir les modalités et potentiels de la médiation scientifique en termes de participation des publics. Plus récemment, les programmes ministériels “Science avec et pour la société” (SAPS) ont conforté l’intégration des Recherches, Sciences et Innovations ...

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Projects

Tous historiens ! Heritage - culture - society Heritage - culture - society

Tous historiens !

Let's all be historians ! Survey on the history of Charleville

To track the journeys of individuals who lived in Charleville in the 19th century but who were born in or who emigrated to another city in the Ardennes region in order to better understand people’s life paths and movements.

Tous historiens !

Recreation of individuals’ life paths from civil records (christenings, deaths and marriages) and censuses.

Project created
French regions

Type of project : Online

Level of involvement : Case by case

SimParc Biodiversity Biodiversity

SimParc

Simulation de gestion participative de parcs

Exploration de méthodologies participatives de gestion de parcs et espaces protégés pour la conservation de la biodiversité et l’inclusion sociale, fondée sur des techniques informatiques avancées.

SimParc

Développement du prototype informatique (jeu sérieux distribué simulant un conseil de gestion de parc) et des assistants décentralisés (analyse de viabilité, décision, argumentation, négociation).

Project created
Internationally

Type of project : Field, online

Level of involvement : Case by case

Vigie-Nature École Biodiversity Biodiversity

Vigie-Nature École

A network of students to advance science

Vigie-Nature École offers French teachers the opportunity to monitor what is known as “common” biodiversity by implementing scientific protocols with their students.

Vigie-Nature École

Ten citizen’s observatories are currently available for preschool to high school-aged students to study various groups of species such as snails, insects, urban flora and birds.

Project created
All over France

Type of project : Field

Level of involvement : Case by case

Histoires de nature - Changing natures - Natur der Dinge Environment Environment

Histoires de nature - Changing natures - Natur der Dinge

Collecting the Anthropocene together

Building a participatory and digital collection on environmental change: Integration of local knowledge, multiple perceptions and interpretations, and emotions in order to better understand ongoing environmental transformations, both at the individual and collective levels.

Histoires de nature - Changing natures - Natur der Dinge

To propose to citizens to share documents from the past/archives (private, personal archives or public documents): Which they see as evidence of changes in nature That challenge or surprise And that make them want to build a story about the perceived change.

Project created
Internationally

Type of project : Field, online

Level of involvement : Case by case

TRAC3S : traces elements in the arctic : climate change consequences Environment Environment

TRAC3S : traces elements in the arctic : climate change consequences

Les objectifs du projet TRAC3S sont de comprendre et quantifier la perturbation des cycles des éléments traces minéraux en Arctic en lien avec la fonte du pergélisol et d'en évaluer les dimensions à la fois environnementales et sociétales à travers une démarche participative.

TRAC3S : traces elements in the arctic : climate change consequences

1) Les éleveurs de rennes sont invités à collecter des échantillons de poils et fèces de leurs animaux et nous les envoyer pour analyses au laboratoire. 2) Les promeneur·es, promeneuses sont invités à collecter des échantillons de plantes en milieu arctique et nous les envoyer pour analyses au la

Project created
Internationally

Type of project : Field

Level of involvement : Once a month

Sauvages de ma Rue Biodiversity Biodiversity

Sauvages de ma Rue

Sauvages de ma rue (Wilderness on my street) is a citizens’ observatory from Vigie-Nature that lets urban dwellers learn to identify the wild plants that grow on the streets in their neighborhoods. The data are used for urban ecology research.

Sauvages de ma Rue

Participants carry out inventories of wild plants that grow on city streets. They note the presence of plant species from among 240 plants listed in the protocol and indicate whether they are growing at the base of a tree, on sidewalks, in the grass, etc.

Project created
Mainland France

Type of project : Field, online

Level of involvement : Case by case

WASAF Environment Environment

WASAF

Projet de surveillance participative de la lagune Aghien – Côte d’Ivoire

Impliquer les populations riveraines dans la surveillance des proliférations de cyanobactéries et d’autres dysfonctionnements de la lagune Aghien, à l’aide d’une application mobile (EpiCollect 5)

WASAF

Les réponses à un court questionnaire (couleur de l’eau, poissons morts, détritus, etc.) accompagnées de photos géo-localisées et datées sont transmises à la plateforme WaSAf hébergée par le site EpiCollect 5

Project created
Internationally

Type of project : Field

Level of involvement : Case by case

Plages Vivantes Biodiversity Biodiversity

Plages Vivantes

Participatory Observatory of Beach Top Biodiversity

To monitor and understand the biodiversity dynamics of the shore in response to global and local changes to improve conservation of this ecosystem.

Plages Vivantes

Any member of the community can participate in simple protocols, based on observations of the biological groups in the wrack (seaweed; and eventually, birds, invertebrates and plants).

Project created
Mainland France

Type of project : Field

Level of involvement : Case by case

BioLit Algues brunes & Bigorneaux Biodiversity Biodiversity

BioLit Algues brunes & Bigorneaux

Evaluating the quality of rocky foreshores (in western France)

- To understand the links between the diversity and abundance of brown algae cover and the diversity and abundance of gastropods on the foreshore. - To develop, through collaborative efforts between scientists and members of the community, a shared vision of the quality of rocky foreshores

BioLit Algues brunes & Bigorneaux

BioLit participants survey kelp and periwinkles according to the protocols. The data are entered on the Planète Mer BioLit website. They are processed by scientists at the MNHN. Finally, they are published in the BioLimètre newsletter.

Project created
Mainland France

Type of project : Field

Level of involvement : Once a quarter