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CoAct is launching a call for proposals, inviting civil society initiatives to apply for our cascading grants with max. 20.000,- Euro to conduct Citizen Social Science research on the topic of Gender Equality. A maximum of four (4) applicants will...

The school takes impulse from the CoAct project experiences and partners. It aims to invigorate the academic community around a wide set of Citizen Social Science practices while...

On April 21, 2021 we hosted the first of CoAct’s *Open*Citizen*Social*Science hangouts. Bringing together a lively diverse group of researchers, community organizers and hybrid actors, we gathered in order to discuss how to shape a series of...

Global Innovation Gathering (GIG) | Feb. 12th, 2021. What do the Open Science and the Citizen Social Science have in common? What can we learn from each other? And why should we collaborate? As a community being engaged in both spaces, e.g...

Guillermina Actis and Malena Velarde, January 20th, 2021. Research Center for Transformation, National University of San Martin (CENIT/UNSAM). For the past year, our Research and Innovation (R&I) Action has connected a network of actors from the...

On Monday November 30th and Tuesday December 1st, 2020, our second annual consortium meeting took place in an online format. Our consortium partners joined from Germany, Austria, Spain, UK, and Argentina. The two days were full of activities to...

Come join the first online Global Innovation Gathering on 10-11 December 2020 CoAct coalition member GIG is organizing the first online Global Innovation Gathering! DOTS is the annual convention of innovators from around the world. We are looking...

Katja Mayer, 6 July 2020 The Coronavirus crisis shows us how fragile and sensitive our living environments are. Everywhere taken for granted infrastructures collapse, or it becomes clear that they are insufficiently available or maintained. It has...

Anna Cigarini, 17 June 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed the role that citizen science may play to react and respond to disruptive societal challenges by highlighting the importance of scientific evidence to inform decisions in times of...