Public engagement in the scientific activities is conventionally defined as the citizen science. It is a research activity based on cooperation that can produce excellent results. This cooperation can be very diverse. Ordinary citizens can collect and analyze data, participate in research publicity campaigns, etc. The results obtained by citizens are undoubtedly beneficial to researchers. Also, it is an opportunity for the citizens to realize themselves, to get acquainted with the scientific problems of a certain phenomenon.
We invited prof. Regina Gražulevičienė from Vytautas Magnus University to share her thoughts on citizen science. The researcher is actively involved in the researches on public health, environmental epidemiology, the urban environment, etc. R. Gražulevičienė is also a member of the European Human Exposome Network (EHEN), an expert of the European Commission’s environment and health programs, and coordinates the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 project “Advancing Tools for Human Early Lifecourse Exposome Research and Translation (ATHLETE)”. Among other research activities, she leads the international citizen science project “Citizen Science for Urban Environment and Health (CitieS-Health)” and is actively involved in other activities.
Read the interview here.
