Citizen Science Helvetia 2025 (CitSciHelvetia’25), the Swiss conference for citizen and participatory research will take place on June 5 and 6, 2025, at the University of Lausanne (UNIL). It will focus on “Citizen science in action. Collaborations between civil society and academia”.
The challenges facing our contemporary societies are multiple and complex: biodiversity loss, climate disruption, damaged social ties, health challenges, and more. They call for collective responses drawing on the wealth of scientific, professional and experiential knowledge. The partnership between civil society and academia has never been more relevant. In the past few years there has been a fundamental trend: citizen and participatory science projects are on the rise, demonstrating the importance of a new way of producing knowledge in the service of the common good. Though this dynamic is encouraging, partnerships between civil society and academia require special care and skills, as well as favorable institutional conditions that need to be reinforced.
Initiated by the Science et Cité Foundation and supported by the Swiss Academies of Science and UNIL, this year’s edition is organized by the ColLaboratoire (UNIL’s collaborative and participatory action research unit). We welcome contributions related to the challenges of collaboration between civil society and academic institutions.
The call is open: https://www.citscihelvetia.ch/call-2025 (Deadline Dec, 15)
Are you a member of an NGO, an association, a foundation, a citizens’ collective or a public institution? Are you a researcher in the natural and environmental sciences, human and social sciences, literature, law or economics? Are you involved in supporting, or facilitating citizen and participatory science? Are you new to the field or preparing to take action?Your proposal is welcome!
Further information: https://www.citscihelvetia.ch/