Co-designing citizen science for STEM4youth project
Under the umbrella of the European project STEM4youth for engaging teenagers with citizen science, I recently had the opportunity of collaborating for a series of case studies with the OpenSystems group leaded by Josep Perelló at the University of Barcelona. We organised a series of co-design sessions of experiments about human behaviour with three diverse groups of students from different secondary schools (totalling more than 100 participants as “amateur researchers”). The basic premise of the process was to start in the same way in all cases: rather than only involving students in the data gathering process (which is the usual approach […]