The ICM researcher is one of the seven citizen science experts elected now to be part of the new ECSA's board of directors, which will establish the ECSA's strategy for the next three years.
Encouraging citizen science growth in Europe is the main objective of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA). To fulfill this purpose, ECSA counts on an Executive Board with broad expertise on citizen science that works in the association’s strategic vision and actions. Each year ECSA holds an Annual General Meeting where every three years all organization members vote for the five to seven persons that will be part of the new Board of Directors.
Last November 27th, during the latest annual meeting, the ICM researcher Jaume Piera, which is also the Cos4Cloud coordinator, was elected to be part of the Board of Directors.
ECSA’s board of directors advises the executive committee by setting the scientific guidelines for ECSA’s work that will establish the association’s strategy during the following three years: in which events should ECSA participate, projects to support as a partner, etc.
During the last General Meeting, ECSA members also voted five more members to be part of the Board of Directors: Rosa Arias, co-leader of the co-design methodology at the Cos4Cloud project and Science for Change CEO, Gitte Kragh, British co-chair at the Ecological Society Citizen Science and co-founder of the Danish Citizen Science Netværket; Dr. Barbara Kieslinger, who works at the Centre of Social Innovation; Martin Brocklehurst, founder member of ECSA and the Citizen Science Global Partnership; and Dr. Susanne Tönsmann, who is managing director of the Participatory Science Academy at the University of Zurich.
“I think the new Board of Directors has a huge potential, all of us have citizen science expertise from different perspectives, that is why I think it will be very enriching”, states Jaume.
One of the Jaume’s main interests in citizen science focuses on the technologies and infrastructures that facilitate citizen science development. Apart from being the Cos4Cloud coordinator, whose objective is to connect the Citizen Observatories with the European Open Science Cloud, Jaume participates in the H2020 Panelfit project, which addresses the ethical and legal framework’s challenges for citizen-science digital data.