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This report presents a Science Brief of recommendations produced by WP2 - 'Methods for citizen science impacts' on how to assess the impacts of citizen science such that they can be disseminated to a wide audience ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

This report presents the draft MICS conceptual framework which constitutes the overarching structure within which novel and appropriate impact assessment methods will be provided for citizen science projects, including the MICS case studies, and which will inform the MICS online platform. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

The MICS project develops approaches and tools to evaluate citizen science impacts. These approaches and tools can help to plan and implement projects in ways that lead to more robust outcomes. This report reviews impact-assessment methods and selects relevant methods to capture the impacts of citizen science in distinct domains. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

This report presents the draft MICS Citizen Science Impact Assessment framework which constitutes the overarching structure within which novel and appropriate impact assessment methods will be provided for citizen science projects, including the MICS case studies, and which will be implemented via the MICS online platform. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

The MICS project develops approaches and tools to evaluate citizenscience impacts. These approaches and tools can help to plan and implement projects in ways that lead to more robust results. This report describes the structure and process of building the MICS corpus of knowledge (or knowledge base), which forms part of the MICS methodological and technical efforts to capture, analyse and consolidate insights on the impacts of citizen science. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

This report introduces identified reference projects and results for review to support the development of methods for measuring citizen-science impact. The projects provide an insight into the use of citizen science in a wide range of contexts and explore impact-related concepts, methods, tools, implementation frameworks of citizen science, nature-based solutions and river restoration concepts from which indicators can be derived to evaluate the operationalisation of citizen-science concepts in the pilot. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 82471

Abstract Over the past decade, citizen science has experienced growth and popularity as a scientific practice and as a new form of stakeholder engagement and public participation in science or in the generation of new knowledge. One of the key requirements for realising the potential of citizen science is evidence and demonstration of its impact and value. Yet the actual changes resulting from citizen science interventions are often assumed, ignored or speculated about. Based on a systematic review of 77 publications, combined with empirical insights from 10 past and ongoing projects in the field of citizen science, this paper presents guidelines for a consolidated Citizen Science Impact Assessment framework to help overcome the dispersion of approaches in assessing citizen science impacts; this comprehensive framework enhances the ease and consistency with which impacts can be captured, as well as the comparability of evolving results across projects. Our review is framed according to five distinct, yet interlinked, impact domains (society, economy, environment, science and technology, and governance). Existing citizen science impact assessment approaches provide assessment guidelines unevenly across the five impact domains, and with only a small number providing concrete indicator-level conceptualisations. The analysis of the results generates a number of salient insights which we combine in a set of guiding principles for a consolidated impact assessment framework for citizen science initiatives. These guiding principles pertain to the purpose of citizen science impact assessments, the conceptualisation of data collection methods and information sources, the distinction between relative versus absolute impact, the comparison of impact assessment results across citizen science projects, and the incremental refinement of the organising framework over time.

Deliverable D4.5 provides a description and evaluation of the findings on the impact of citizen science in the case study sites. The MICS impact assessment approach was applied to the five MICS case study sites across Europe, each of which have differing levels of citizen science engagement and approaches to environmental management. The case study are: (i) Outfall Safari (UK): aims to use citizen science to detect and record pollution from surface water outfalls to gather evidence and report on pollution incidents; (ii) Riverfly Monitoring (UK): aims to monitor key macroinvertebrate species (riverflies) that are indicators of river water quality; (iii) Marzenego River NBS Project (Italy): aims to establish a monitoring program to gauge the effectives of NBS implemented within the Marzenego River catchment; (iv) The Creek Rákos Citizen Science project (Hungary): aims to use citizen science as a means of establishing the baseline condition of the Creek to identify suitable sites for restoration and promote public support for NBS; and, (v) The Carasuhat Wetland NBS Project (Romania): aims to establish a monitoring programme to gauge the effectives of wetland NBS implemented in the Danube Delta. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

This poster shows the results of a research project that was executed at the iDiv Summer School 2019. The authors assessed 500 Citizen Science projects reported in an EU inventory and conducted an in-depth analysis of 25 case studies. The study aimed at determining the impact of citizen science projects on the policy cycle.