The CSGP was created by the 6 national and regional Citizen Science Associations (ECSA, CSA, ACSA, CitSciAsia, CitSciAfrica and the Iberoamerican Network of Participatory Science (RICAP) with the support of a number of organisations and agencies including ADEC Innovations / Global CEO Alliance (GCEOA); Citizen Cyber Lab; CS Center Zurich, Participating Monitoring and Management Partnership (PMMP); Smart and Sustainable Action Association; UNESCO; Wilson Centre.
CSGP was legally established as a non-profit association in Austria in Oct 2022. The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU, Vienna, Austria) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE, Geneva, Switzerland) agreed to be the legal signatories and became founding members. The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Laxenberg, Austria) was chosen to host the organisation’s general secretariat, providing managerial, operational, and administrative services.
The University of Geneva and CS Zurich (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) jointly run the Swiss Hub of the CSGP, located at the SDG Solution Space in Geneva, in the heart of International Geneva quarter. CS Zurich provides strategic communications support.
Demonstrate the value and potential of citizen science at the highest levels of global institutions and organization, governments, academia, and policy making institutions. Includes:
- Demonstrate the potential of citizen science to contribute a global response towards a sustainable world;
- Promote citizen science as a unifying, enabling, and multiplying force for change;
- Promote access to science as a human right;
- Support global initiatives such as the SDGs and Open Science;
- Promote the use of citizen science data into global activities tackling sustainability issues.
Build and strengthen the global network of citizen science associations and practitioners. Includes:
- Consolidate and secure the sustainability of CSGP;
- Work for the development of a harmonised global movement;
- Encourage and support global Communities of Practice (CoP) and Working Groups.
Engage with a diversity of partners to collaborate in citizen science activities. Includes:
- Establish partnerships across geographies, cultures, sectors, and research domains & disciplines, inclusive of global agencies, government, NGOs, scientific institutions, business partners and indigenous and local communities;
- Facilitate global scaling of citizen science projects;
- Facilitate and support the development of citizen science initiatives in developing countries.
- Connect citizen science projects conducting research on similar topics;
- Provide a single coordination node to the global citizen science community.
Contribute to advancing citizen science as a significant element of mainstream science. Includes:
- Contribute to further understanding the impact and outcomes of citizen science methodologies and tools.
- Advance citizen science research, technology, and data.
GCSP Board Members
ACSA: Matthew Gracen matthew dot grace at data61 dot csiro dot au
CitSciAfrica: Maina Muniafu mmuniafu at usiu dot ac dot ke
CitSciAsia: Mendel Wong mendel at citizenscience dot asia
CSA: Austin Mast amast at fsu dot edu
ECSA: Martin Brocklehurst martin dot brocklehurst at me dot com (Chair of the Board)
IASA: Steffen Fritz fritz at iiasa dot ac dot at
UNIGE: Francois Grey francois dot grey at unige dot ch
RICAP: Mariana Varese mvarese at wcs dot org
CSGP Secretariat:
IIASA: Dilek Fraisl fraisl at iiasa dot ac dot at (Managing Director)
IIASA: Ivelina Georgieva georgieva at iiasa dot ac dot at
CS Zurich: Rosy Mondardini maria dot mondardini at uzh dot ch
General Secretariat
Citizen Science Global Partnership
IIASA, Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
CSGP Swiss Hub
SDG Solution Space
Av. de Sécheron 15, 1202 Genève, Switzerland
