In the Baltics, a survey on promoting cooperation in research projects with citizens’ participation continues. The second round of the survey is underway. The time for completing the questionnaires has been extended until the 5th of September.
As part of the Erasmus+ project “University libraries strengthening the academia-society connection through citizen science in the Baltics” (LibOCS), Kaunas University of Technology Library continues its series of interviews with researchers and this time interviews Egle Butkeviciene, Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at KTU, who is the head of the research group on citizen science. Text in Lithuanian is here.
The phenomenon of citizen science is still a new, unknown and too little attention-getting topic in Lithuania. A particularly strong contrast emerges when trying to compare this phenomenon with citizen science projects developed in Western Europe, which long ago crossed the boundaries of local interest and became the targets of national strategies. Scientists from Vytautas the Great University spoke about this and many other issues of citizen science in recently published interviews.
