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.
Et si chaque citoyen et citoyenne pouvait contribuer à faire avancer les sciences et la recherche ? Comment constituer des communautés externes et les mobiliser sur des questions de recherche ? Les projets de sciences et recherches participatives sont-ils un levier pour mieux engager la société dans les défis mondiaux ...
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 ...
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
Biodiversity
Breeding bird survey
Assess the spatial and temporal variations in the abundance of common breeding bird populations.
Standardized counts of common birds
Project created
Mainland France
Type of project : Field, online
Level of involvement : Case by case
Medicine - health
Devenez actrices et acteurs de la surveillance des infections respiratoires
Recueillir directement auprès de la population des données épidémiologiques sur les infections respiratoires, par Internet et de façon anonyme. Il est en France, le seul système permettant d’étudier les symptômes présentés par les personnes malades qui n’ont pas forcément recours au système de soins
Ouvrir son espace personnel. À chaque saison (en général de novembre à mai), répondre ou mettre à jour les questionnaires préliminaire et de vaccination. Une fois par semaine, répondre à un court questionnaire récapitulant les symptômes ressentis ou non depuis la dernière connexion.
Project created
Mainland France
Type of project : Online
Level of involvement : Once a week
Biodiversity
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.
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
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
Espèces exotiques envahissantes – Faune introduite en France
EEE-FIF makes it possible to share information for the monitoring of animal species introduced in mainland and overseas France. It also helps contribute to expertise and research on these species as well as the French National Natural Heritage Inventory (INPN).
- Report and monitor an introduced animal species or one that has not yet been observed - Report on biological invasions (bibliographical references, evaluation methods)
Project created
Mainland France
Type of project : Online
Level of involvement : Case by case
Heritage - culture - society
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.
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
Biodiversity
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.
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
Languages and IT
Play with zombies to improve French language processing tools
While playing, participants annotate text corpora. This annotation will then be used to train natural language processing tools.
After a short training period, players are required to identify grammatical relationships in sentences taken from non-copyrighted texts.
Project created
Type of project : Online