On 28 August 2024, Federal Minister Martin Polaschek (BMBWF) and OeAD Managing Director Jakob Calice visited the Vienna Museum of Technology and presented the results of the second call for proposals for the ‘Sparkling Science 2.0’ funding programme. On behalf of the BMBWF, the OeAD will fund 27 new, innovative citizen science projects with a total of 9.5 million euros. The projects will begin their work in autumn 2024.
In Sparkling Science projects, pupils at all school levels and partners from civil society and business are actively involved in research processes. The aim is to answer relevant research questions through close cooperation with the project partners and to familiarise them with scientific working methods and methodology. On the one hand, this strengthens trust in science in the long term and, on the other hand, the scientific community builds up citizen science competences.
You can find the entire press release with further information here.
The special newsletter of the OeAD Centre for Citizen Science is available here.