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The 'EU-Citizen.Science Stakeholders, Network & Community Mapping Report' is Deliverable 2.1 (D2.1) within the Coordination and Support Action (CSA) EU-Citizen.Science. The ambition of EU-Citizen.Science is to build, fill, and promote a sustainable platform and mutual learning space providing different tools, best practice examples and relevant scientific outcomes that are collected, curated, and made accessible to different stakeholders, ranging from interested citizens over scientific institutions up to politicians and public media in order to mainstream citizen science in Europe. This deliverable maps and describes the key actors and interested parties whose support and involvement will ensure the success of the EU-Citizen.Science platform. This is accomplished by systematically reviewing the individuals and organisations who play a key role in citizen science activities in general, who are likely to also become the core users of the EU-Citizen.Science platform in particular. The main objectives of this report are to: - Deepen our understanding of the full range of stakeholders in citizen science, - Identify the key stakeholders for the success of the EU-Citizen.Science platform, as users, contributors, and/or supporters, - Expand our working definition of the relevant stakeholder categories and the relationship they are likely to have to the Platform - Form the foundation for other core tasks and activities within the EU-Citizen.Science project across a range of Work Packages. The primary stakeholder groups that we hereby identify, analyse, map and prioritise are: Academia, The Public, NGOs & CSOs, Industry & SMEs, The Press & Media, Educators, and Policy Makers & Funders. ; The living Stakeholder Register documents are available upon request from the wider community, for all to make a contribution to.

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The 'Platform Functionality Requirements & Specification Report' is Deliverable 2.3 (D2.3) within the Coordination and Support Action (CSA) EU-Citizen.Science. The ambition of EU-Citizen.Science is to build, fill, and promote a sustainable platform and mutual learning space providing different tools, best practice examples and relevant scientific outcomes that are collected, curated, and made accessible to different stakeholders, ranging from interested citizens over scientific institutions up to politicians and public media in order to mainstream citizen science in Europe. This deliverable is divided into two parts: The first half of this deliverable report describes the work undertaken in WP2: Platform, Community and Network Building to identify the needs and requirements of all stakeholders, to identify best practice for the development of content-rich knowledge-sharing platforms, and to research the availability of existing open source modules or platforms. The second half of this deliverable report describes the EU Citizen.Science platform structure, the functionality and features that will be developed, the release plan, and the development approach.

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14 pages, 2 figures ; Citizen Science (CS) is a prominent field of application for Open Science (OS), and the two have strong synergies, such as: advocating for the data and metadata generated through science to be made publicly available [1]; supporting more equitable collaboration between different types of scientists and citizens; and facilitating knowledge transfer to a wider range of audiences [2]. While primarily targeted at CS, the EU-Citizen. Science platform can also support OS. One of its key functions is to act as a knowledge hub to aggregate, disseminate and promote experience and know-how; for example, by profiling CS projects and collecting tools, resources and training materials relevant to both fields. To do this, the platform has developed an information architecture that incorporates the public participation in scientific research (PPSR)—Common Conceptual Model①. This model consists of the Project Metadata Model, the Dataset Metadata Model and the Observation Data Model, which were specifically developed for CS initiatives. By implementing these, the platform will strengthen the interoperating arrangements that exist between other, similar platforms (e.g., BioCollect and SciStarter) to ensure that CS and OS continue to grow globally in terms of participants, impact and fields of application ; The EU-Citizen.Science project received funding from the EU's Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation under grant agreement No. 824580. The research described in this paper is partly supported by the project "Citizen Science to promote creativity, scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe" (COST Action), which received funding from the EU's Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation under grant agreement No. 15212 ; With funding from the Spanish government through the 'Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence' accreditation (CEX2019-000928-S) ; Peer reviewed