FECYT takes part in the NEWSERA final conference

The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT from its Spanish initials) takes part in the NEWSERA final conference on March 29, 2023, at BIP Meeting Centre in Brussels, Belgium.

After 3 years of research, the NEWSERA project has ended. The event was organised in a hybrid format, with about 35 participants meeting in person – including NEWSERA partners, representatives from the Pilots projects involved in the Labs, invited speakers, and stakeholders from the quadruple helix.

Then, the NEWSERA Consortium members discussed the achievements of the project and presented the NEWSERA Blueprints on innovative citizen science communication. These documents are the results of the learnings of the CitSciComm Labs: collaborative and participatory spaces where 39 citizen science projects (the NEWSERA Pilots), came together with invited stakeholders from the quadruple helix model (citizens and society at large, academic scientists, policymakers and industry and SMEs), and science and data journalists as well as other science communication professionals.

From this experience we have gathered our learnings in multiple documents that we hope can inspire the broader citizen science and science communication communities.

Download the Blueprints for Citizen Science Communication:

• Blueprint for #CitSciComm with and for Citizen Scientists and Society at Large
• Blueprint for #CitSciComm with and for Career Scientists
• Blueprint for #CitSciComm with and for Policymakers
• Blueprint for #CitSciComm with and for Industry and SMEs
• Blueprint for #CitSciComm with and for Science Journalists

Other main outputs of the project: the second Policy Brief, which assesses the main findings and impacts from the NEWSERA project as well as policy recommendations in science communication of citizen science initiatives, and the Guide of Science Communication in citizen science projects and citizen science journalism, a must-have tool for all those who want to start or rethink their own communication strategies.

Moreover, the NEWSERA final conference featured further discussions into the concepts of citizen science communication and citizen science journalism, and presentations of fellow EU-funded projects ENJOI, COALESCE, IMPETUS, and ECS.