Together with UNESCO, and with support from Flanders, Scivil has been working on Citizens4Water: a global inventory of citizen science initiatives for hydrology and water management.

We're excited to announce that the platform is now live: www.citizens4water.org. Before we start our broad communication to projects worldwide, we’re inviting early contributors to upload their projects and help kick-start the community.

As this is still a testing phase, we’d love your feedback after submitting your project. Please share it via this short form.

Did you know that the scent of pine trees, the vibrant colours of flowers and even some medicines all come from special plant compounds called terpenoids and flavonoids? 

Scivil, together with the European DeCYPher project, is organising a citizen panel on biotechnology. In this panel, we’ll explore together how these valuable compounds can be produced in a more sustainable way. 

Your voice matters: Help decide which of these plant-based compounds will be included in an open science starter kit for future research.  

The panel takes place on 25 October in Ghent (9:00-12:00). No prior knowledge needed.

Our project ‘amai!’ is nominated as one of the fifteen finalists in the global Falling Walls Engage 2025 competition. Falling Walls is an organisation founded to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall. Every year, the Falling Walls Science Summit takes place in Berlin, an event that bridges research, innovation, and society.

During the next edition, from 6 to 9 November in Berlin, we will present amai! to an international audience and expert jury. A wonderful recognition for the entire amai! team!

On 18 June, citizen scientists, researchers, families, and curious passers-by gathered in the garden of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences for the very first edition of the Citizen Science Fair. It was a warm and inspiring day filled with fascinating encounters, interactive demos, and above all, a shared passion for citizen science.

You can now look back at this wonderful day with photos on our website. 

We are compiling our second inventory of citizen science projects in Belgium: the Citizen Science Scan 2025. Are you involved in a citizen science project? Submit your project and make sure it’s included in our next report.
The survey takes just 5 minutes!

Who participates in citizen science in Flanders? What motivates them, and what challenges do they face? That's what we would like to find out through this survey.

Do you know any citizen scientists, for example participants in your project? You can help us by sharing the survey with them. After the survey closes, you can also receive the results for your project.

From 7 to 11 July 2025, the PReCISE (Promoting Citizen Science Expertise) summer school took place at UCLouvain in Louvain-la-Neuve. This summer school was organised by the international Circle U. university alliance, of which UCLouvain is a member.

Several international citizen science experts, including Muki Haklay, Jaqui Goldin and Gitte Kragh were present to give sessions to participating students. Scivil also attended the summer school and hosted a workshop on communication in citizen science.

You can read a full report of this inspiring week on Muki Haklay’s blog.

Want to strengthen your skills in facilitating conversations and workshops? On Thursday, 9 October 2025, Stickydot is hosting an interactive training in Brussels where you’ll learn how to facilitate dialogues around research. Perfect for researchers and project leaders active in citizen science.

The workshop will be conducted by Michael Creek.

BeCoDigital is a research project that explores how digital technologies and AI can enhance citizen co-creation in a federal government context. During this closing event, KU Leuven, UNamur and UAntwerpen will share their findings, insights, potential impacts and future directions.  

The event will take place on Tuesday, 9 December, from 13:30 to 16:00 at BeCentral in Brussels.

Registration is now open for the second international Citizen Science for Health Conference (CS4Health 2025), taking place on 6–7 November 2025 at ETH Zurich.

Under the theme “From personal to global health – bridging communities through citizen science”, the conference brings together a diverse international community: researchers, students, citizens, patient representatives, healthcare professionals and policymakers.

At the ECS Cluster event, the EU Prize for Citizen Science 2025 was awarded. 

The prize was presented to three inspiring projects:

• HEROINES (Serbia) won the main prize for making Roma women visible through participatory storytelling.
• Antiquake Risk Hunter (Turkey) was recognised for engaging citizens in earthquake preparedness.
• MoFWaste (Portugal) tackled food waste in schools.

27 other projects received an honourable mention.

PL2030 and ECS Academy are organising an online training for public libraries on how to integrate citizen science into their activities and programmes.

During the Australian citizen science conference, organised by the Australian Citizen Science Association, Scivil will give a virtual presentation on the Citizens4Water project.

During the European Week of Regions and Cities 2025, three European projects (CitiObs, CLIMAS and Empower-Citizens) will host a joint session on how citizen science and participatory methods can contribute to more resilient urban futures. 

On October 20 in Leuven, the Mijn Tuinlab event will look back on five years of citizen science in gardens. 

On 6 and 7 November 2025 the second global conference on Citizen Science for Health will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. 

BeCoDigital explores how digital technologies and AI can enhance citizen co-creation in a federal government context. During this final event in Brussels, KU Leuven, UNamur, and UAntwerpen will share their insights and future plans.

From 4 to 7 March 2026, the next edition of the ECSA Conference will be held in Oulu, Finland.