Get involved in citizen science
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.
Particip-Arc est le réseau des acteurs des recherches culturelles participatives, créé en 2017 avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture, pour favoriser le partage d’expérience entre membres et l’analyse réflexive des pratiques mais aussi pour promouvoir et développer les sciences participatives dans les domaines de la culture. Afin de ...
Nouvel outil au service de la connaissance de la géologie, Vigie-Terre est un programme de sciences participatives consacré à la diversité géologique. Il a pour objectif de recenser des nouvelles observations géologiques sur le territoire, qu’elles soient le résultat du développement de l’anthropisation ou de phénomènes naturels. Sur le long ...
Languages and IT
Français de nos Régions
The project aims to document variations of the French language spoken around the world from a linguistic geography perspective.
Internet users are invited to participate in “language vitality” surveys. The survey results can be viewed as labeled maps on a blog. The blog posts are shared on social media, which in turn helps recruit new participants
Project created
All over France
Type of project : Online
Level of involvement : Once a quarter
Biodiversity
Butterfly survey
Assess the spatial and temporal variations in the abundance of common butterfly populations.
Standardized counts of common butterflies
Project created
Mainland France
Type of project : Field, online
Level of involvement : Case by case
Biodiversity
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.
Nine 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
Biodiversity
BIRDLAB is a citizen’s observatory that aims to study bird behavior at the feeder in winter. Participation is via a game played on a smartphone or tablet.
Participate from a garden, a balcony or a deck by installing two feeders and by watching the birds as they come and go at the feeders using the BirdLab app.
Project created
Mainland France
Type of project : Field, online
Level of involvement : Case by case
Environment
The project aims to understand the origin and estimate the quantity of litter, and especia.
- Monitoring of accumulated macro waste - Raising awareness of pollution and encouraging reflection on waste life cycles - Testing mapping with drones to estimate waste quantities
Project in test phase
Internationally
Type of project : Field
Level of involvement : Once a day
Biology
Centre de Recherches sur la Biologie des Populations d'Oiseaux
Suivre les oiseaux en les marquant pour connaître leur devenir, leurs déplacements, leurs migrations. Les données recueillies permettent de documenter la biologie des populations d'oiseaux sauvages en France.
Pour tout le monde : signaler au CRBPO tout oiseau sauvage porteur de marques. Pour les ornithologues avancés : se former aux méthodes de capture, marquage et mesure des oiseaux afin d'obtenir un 'permis de baguage' d'oiseaux.
Project created
All over France
Type of project : Field
Level of involvement : Case by case
Biodiversity
Common flora monitoring
Assess the spatial and temporal variations in the abundance of common plant populations.
Standardized counts of common plants
Project created
Mainland France
Type of project : Field, online
Level of involvement : Case by case
Biodiversity
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.
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
Biodiversity
Damsel and dragonfly survey
Assess the spatial and temporal variations in the abundance of odonata populations.
Standardized counts of common odonata
Project created
Mainland France
Type of project : Field, online