Background: Citizen science offers an attractive paradigm for addressing some of the complex problems facing society …. Historically, the citizen science landscape was fractured into silos of activities; nonetheless, it has demonstrably delivered … issues that historically afflicted citizen science initiatives, thus empowering a new generation of citizen scientists …

economic development. On the one hand, many citizen science activities serve to achieve scientific as well as social and … volunteers) in research and with the use of the citizen science tools and methods such as action research, crowdsourcing, and … various barriers to both citizen science and social innovation. For example, management, quality and protection of data …

, outcomes, and impact of Citizen Science projects. Hence, the proposed methodology com- bines the previous research efforts on … "Science with and for Society" project INCENTIVE (Grant Agreement No. 101005330) that brings on board four Research Performing … with the targets set, with the respective values of other Citizen Science Hubs, or to worldwide trends. …