Each day consisted of two modules held by the project partners to share the progress of the project, learn new skills and plan for the upcoming phases.

Before the official start of the LTTA on Tuesday, the team met for the first time for an in-person meeting to review progress, settle administrative questions and get to know the other project partners better. The first module of the LTTA was led by the University of Tartu Library and focused on training on the results of a cross-country analysis of open (OS) and citizen science (CS) in Europe and how they could be employed to support OS/CS activities at partner higher education institutes and academic libraries.

The second day started with designing a framework for CS training modules which feeds into phase three of the LibOCS project. Led by the Kaunas University of Technology, the team worked together to set up the course structure about citizen science for librarians. The third training module focused on implementing citizen science activities inside and outside academic libraries. It was led by Katerina Zourou from Web2Learn, who has been involved in projects such as INOS and CitizenHeritage and was able to share their experience.

During the first session on Thursday, the team heard from the University of Latvia about the results of their cross-country study where scientists, memory institution specialists and citizen scientists were asked about their personal experience in working with libraries during a CS project. The full report will be available in the Zenodo collection in October 2022 and LU will present the results on the 25th of October during the webinar “Collaboration and participation perspectives for open research in the Baltics: researchers, citizens, librarians as partners”. More information about the webinar can be found HERE.

Next, the team members from Tallinn University of Technology encouraged the partners to get creative and map out video scenarios for tutorial videos about CS activities in libraries.

On the 23rd of September, the team heard from Tiberius Ignat (Immer Besser) about skills related to the implementation of OS/CS, such as engagement and interaction with citizens, the ability to foster interest in research and innovation, and more. The LTTA ended with a workshop led by KTU on how to create a data management plan and reuse citizens-generated data from an open science perspective.

In addition to building relationships with each other, the week provided each partner with a chance to learn more about the others’ libraries and their viewpoint on open sciences and citizen science.