As you may be aware, the COBWEB project is one of five Citizens’ Observatory projects funded by the European Commission to engage individuals across Europe in their environment through their participation in research and data gathering. 

At GEO-X last month all five projects were in attendance, sharing a stand, and collaborating on a Side Event where a new video was premiered. The video, which you can view below (or download from the EC website), promotes new earth observation systems using monitoring and information by citizens, a common feature of all of these projects. 

The video features three of the Citizens’ Observatory projects funded by the European Commission: CITI-SENSE (Spain), CITCLOPS (Ireland) and OMNISCIENTIS (Belgium) and the COBWEB team are really glad to see the Citizens’ Observatory projects being highlighted so prominently

COBWEB are pleased to be working with our fellow Citizens’ Observatory projects to share experience and work jointly to raise the profile of this whole area of citizen participation in the environment across Europe. We are also cooperating through a joint website which provides a single place to access all of the projects, and find out about overarching Citizens’ Observatory information and news.

Find out more here: http://www.citizen-obs.eu/​