Topic: Citizenheritage News

European Citizen Science Association 2024 conference

  The European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) will host its 5th conference in Vienna from April 3 to 6, 2024. The conference will focus on the motto ‘Change‘, reflecting the current era of rapid transformations on multiple levels. The aim … Continue reading


CitizenHeritage event ‘Flavors of the Globe: A Cultural Exploration Through Food’

text by Denise Martin Weijters, images courtesy of Denise Martin Weijters and Trilce Navarrete (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Food is much more than a simple source of nutrition; it is a potent symbol of culture, identity, and tradition. The manner in … Continue reading


CitizenHeritage: Looking for New Participatory Practice

text by Costanza Rizzetto (Erasmus University Rotterdam), image from EUR image bank, by Jonathan Van Rijn. The installation ‘The Value of Art’ (2010) consists of two traditional oil paintings portraying a hairy cat and a lady. Any 10 seconds a … Continue reading


CitizenHeritage presented at Scivil workshop ‘Shared Challenges in Citizen Science’

There are many unique challenges involved in setting up citizen science. Scivil, a Flemish knowledge center for citizen science that promotes citizen science projects in Flanders and beyond, is organizing a workshop on 31/5/2023 with three parallel tracks to discuss … Continue reading


Citizen Science in Cultural Heritage: practices and digital technologies

Athens, 29 May 2023 Hybrid event at the National Technical University of Athens Library and online h. 14-17 CEST The event organized by the National Technical University of Athens, explores good practices of citizen science in cultural heritage and the … Continue reading


Food and Culture

In this Food and Culture workshop, students from Erasmus University Rotterdam get to cook, eat, and discuss the role of food in shaping and expressing identity – also talking about the environmental effect of the food chain. The event takes … Continue reading


CitizenHeritage: can citizen science contribute to the Cultural Heritage challenges of today?

Hosted by KU Leuven and including hybrid and in-person activities, this multiplier event of the CitizenHeritage project takes place at the Irish College in Leuven. A first part will be dedicated to frontal presentations from CitizenHeritage partners to share with … Continue reading


Enriching textile heritage – citizen science workshop

CitizenHeritage promotes participative approaches to support citizen science and citizen participation in cultural heritage, tested and performed in a series of citizen engagement events throughout 2021-2023.   On 17 March 2023, EFHA European Fashion Heritage Association organized a participatory activity … Continue reading


Scivil Workshop: Shared challenges in citizen science

Scivil is a knowledge centre for citizen science in Belgium, which recently initiated a collaboration with Citizen Heritage project due to the common mission of enhancing citizen science in various domains. In Brussels on 31st May Scivil is organizing an … Continue reading


CitizenHeritage: A new participatory practice

Hosted by the Erasmus University and preceded by a variety of students’ activities, this multiplier event of the CitizenHeritage project delivered selected presentations from academic colleagues at the University as well as presentations by CitizenHeritage partners who shared with the … Continue reading