REINFORCE-ing citizen science

Abstract

REINFORCE (REsearch INfrastructures FOR Citizens in Europe) is a "Science with and for Society" (SwafS) project, funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 research programme. REINFORCE partners have developed four demonstrators, two of which were presented in a hands-on session during the Engaging Citizen Science Conference 2022 in Aarhus, Denmark. In the "Search for new particles at CERN" demonstrator, citizen scientists contribute to the search for undiscovered particles at the ATLAS experiment, while in the "GWitchHunters" demonstrator, they contribute to the improvement of the sensitivity of the current generation of gravitational-wave detectors. PoS(CitSci2022)119 PoS(CitSci2022)119 REINFORCE-ing citizen scienceChaniotakis et al.

Bridging the Gap between Large Research Infrastructures in Physics and Society through Citizen Science

“…Quoting the late professor Stavros Katsanevas, we have obtained a cross-fertilization of methods e.g. images vs tracking, effort to find the proper in these demonstrators, citizens were invited to collaborate with researchers and dedicate time and effort to perform classification of more than 80,000 images as well as identify and note properties of the images in question [3].…”