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EU 2024 Prize for Citizens Science goes to three projects

03/07/2024

On 12 June 2024, the winners of the EU 2024 Prize for Citizen Science were announced. Out of the 288 applications, three citizen science initiatives received the main prizes and 27 were recognised with honorary mentions. The winners are:

Grand Prize worth €60,000 goes to the EU-funded INCREASE project for its outstanding achievements in advancing knowledge on seed preservation through the empowerment of civil society and citizens in particular from rural areas;

Digital Communities Prize worth €20,000 is given to the Horizon 2020 project CoAct for Mental Health for its use of digital technologies to develop a personalised approach and improve the quality of life for people facing mental health problems;

Diversity & Collaboration Prize worth €20,000 is given to SeaPaCS Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution for producing transformative knowledge that filled the existing cognitive and emotional gap between society and the sea.

More information can be found in the EC Press Release.

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FAQs for ERA Talents 2024 call and presentations from international infoday

30/06/2024

European Commission has published on FTOP the frequently asked questions for ERA Talents 2024 call (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-03-01). You can find all FAQs in a document attached. Presentations from the International online infoday on this call have been published here.

Second call of the science journalism residency programme has been opened

28/06/2024

As part of the FRONTIERS project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), a second call for applications for its science journalism in residency programme has been launched. The goal of the initiative is to support a high-quality journalism and foster a...

Participation of Czech organizations in the Horizon Europe research consortia

27/06/2024

Collaboration of research teams from different organizations in different countries is one of the major benefits of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The Framework Programme makes a significant contribution to international scientific research cooperation...
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