Citizen Science Articles

In the EU Framework programme for Research & Innovation Horizon 2020, open science was almost reduced to open access.

Emerging evidence suggests that greenspace, whether used for recreation or physical activity (i.e. ‘green exercise’), can improve mental health and wellbeing.

openSenseMap is a platform for open sensor data started in 2015 at the GI@School lab at the Institute for Geoinformatics in Münster. As part of the senseBox the project aims at educating pupils and citizens.

The Folding@home team released its software to the public in September 2000. The project aims to simulate protein dynamics, including the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases such as Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Influenza, and many others.

World Community Grid enables anyone with a computer, smartphone, or tablet to donate their unused computing power to advance cutting-edge scientific research on topics related to health, poverty, and sustainability.

"You don’t have to be a scientist to do science" - is the slogan of the Rosetta@home project. The idea is quite simple – you can donate free computing capacity in times when you don’t need it to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins.