📢 From Coordination to Vision: @RIECS_Concept Consortium Meeting in Oulu, Netherlands❗

✳️ After 14 months of collaboration, on March 2, 2026, the @RIECS_Concept consortium met in Oulu for a full-day, in-person working session focused on one key goal: alignment 🎯

✨ As we head toward the M18 milestone and upcoming review, the focus is clear: sharper direction, stronger coordination, and tangible impact ✨

🔗 More information: https://concept.riecs.eu/2026/03/25/from-coordination-to-vision-riecs-concept-consortium-meeting-in-oulu/

🚀 Co-creating the future of citizen science in Europe❗

✳️ On March 16, 2026, at FOSS Backstage in Berlin, open-source builders, researchers, and citizen science practitioners came together for a hands-on workshop: “Co-Creating @RIECS_Concept with Open-Source Builders.”

✨ “Join the conversation and let’s build @RIECS_Concept together!”✨

🔗 More information: https://concept.riecs.eu/2026/03/17/co-creating-the-future-of-citizen-science-inside-the-riecs-concept-open-source-workshop/

📢 Designing Impact: Turning Citizen Science into a European Infrastructure Strategy❗

✳️ Citizen science in Europe is growing fast, but scaling impact requires more than successful projects. It requires strategy 🚀

✳️ Within the Horizon Europe – funded @RIECS_Concept project, Deliverable 6.1 sets out a comprehensive Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication Plan that turns vision into action.

🔗 More information can be found here: https://concept.riecs.eu/deliverables/

📢 Building a federated future for Citizen Science in Europe❗

📌 Join the roundtable “Building a federated future: Conceptualising governance and sustainability for the pan-European Citizen Science infrastructure” at ECSA2026: Citizen Science between Centre and Periphery.

📍 University of Oulu, Finland, LO102
🗓 Thursday, 5 March 2026
⏰ 14:30–16:15 (EET)

🔗 More info: https://www.ecsa2026.ngo/programme/#17131

🔗 https://concept.riecs.eu/2026/03/03/building-a-federated-future-for-citizen-science-in-europe-governance-and-sustainability-at-the-heart-of-ecsa2026/

📢 Exploring Open Science Hardware in Europe’s Citizen Science Infrastructure❗

📍 Geneva | 19–21 January 2026

✳️ The HEROES Workshop brought together 40 experts to examine how Open Science Hardware (OScH) can strengthen open and participatory research across Europe.

✨ For @RIECS_Concept, the message is clear: embedding open hardware into citizen science infrastructure can reduce fragmentation and strengthen citizens’ roles as active research partners.

🔗 More info: https://concept.riecs.eu/2026/02/25/exploring-the-role-of-open-science-hardware-in-europes-citizen-science-infrastructure/

📢 Shaping the Future of Citizen Science: Join the @RIECS_Concept Online Workshops organised by Malmö University❗

📅 Dates (CET):

⚫ 24 Feb (10:00 & 14:00) | 5 Mar (10:00) | 6 Mar (10:00)
⚫ Duration: 1 hour | 💻 Online (Zoom)

📝 Register by 20 Feb 2026:
🔗https://forms.office.com/e/zEZav6sPMt

🔗 More information: https://concept.riecs.eu/2026/02/18/shaping-the-future-of-citizen-science-join-the-riecs-concept-online-workshops/

✨ Your experience matters – be part of the design process ✨

📢 Join @RIECS_Concept High-Level Policy Event on the Future of Citizen Science organised by the European Citizen Science (ECS) project❗

🗓 19 February 2026
⏰ 10:30–12:00 CET
💻 Online

✨ Let’s shape the future of citizen science in Europe – together ✨

📌 Register now to secure your place here!

📩 Questions? Contact [email protected]

🔗 More information: https://concept.riecs.eu/2026/02/16/riecs-concept-supports-high-level-policy-event-on-the-institutionalisation-and-long-term-sustainability-of-citizen-science/

📢 Building a European Backbone for Citizen Science: Why Fragmentation Is Holding Us Back❗

✳️ Citizen science across Europe is growing rapidly, engaging thousands of citizens, generating valuable data, and contributing to research, policy, and societal challenges.

✨ Addressing fragmentation is a critical step toward building a robust, inclusive, and future-proof European research infrastructure for citizen science ✨

🔗More information can be found here: https://concept.riecs.eu/2026/02/13/building-a-european-backbone-for-citizen-science-why-fragmentation-is-holding-us-back/

📢 The Second @RIECS_Concept Newsletter Is Here❗

✳️ @RIECS_Concept is pleased to share an overview of its first year of activities, marking an important transition from initial concept-building to active dialogue and collective exploration across Europe.

🔗 Read the full text: https://concept.riecs.eu/2026/02/11/riecs-concept-project-releases-one-year-in-motion-how-riecs-concept-is-advancing-a-pan-european-citizen-science-infrastructure-newsletter/

📢 RSA Annual Conference 2026 – Call for contributions! Deadline 12th Feb 2026❗

📌 The @RIECS_Concept and @ECSA are organising Session SS56: “Building Trustworthy, Sustainable and Collaborative Citizen Science Infrastructures: Regional Governance, Policy Integration and European Cooperation”.

🔗 Find out more and submit your paper via the link below:
https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/2026-rsa-annual-submitted-sessions/