Participate in the co-design of citizen science projects that improve quality of life.

Collect scientific data that address social and environmental issues.

Collaborate in the analysis of solutions that inform public policies.

Collaborate in the design of solutions that inform public policies.

Take an active role in managing the data collected and decide how to make it accessible.

Open data in the world of research makes it possible to democratise knowledge and make it accessible to everyone. In this context, Ideas for Change contributed to the elaboration of a map of cases and actors within the Citizen Generated Data (CGD) scenario for the project "Catalunya un País de Dades" promoted by the Secretaria de Govern Obert of the Generalitat de Catalunya. The report includes a mapping of 50 initiatives based on CGS with a focus on the Catalan ecosystem. The aim of the analysis was to investigate the projects, to see how they are structured and differentiated in order to reflect on the management of open data in Catalonia.

This article describes the first stages of the citizen science epidemiology project in Barcelona, Spain, which involved identifying the issues that citizens wanted to investigate in relation to air pollution and health, formulating their concerns in the form of research questions, and co-designing the study protocol.

This report assesses the impact the project had on the citizens and policy makers involved, with important lessons for the research community on how to engage diverse stakeholders and support self-sustaining networks of citizens capable of influencing the local decision-making process for sustainable urban mobility.

Do you need ideas or strategies to involve citizens in your research project? We present the Citizen Science Toolkit, a repository of best practices to boost citizen participation with collaborative, co-created and fun tools.

Making Sense is a project running from 2015 to 2017. Our aim was to explore how open source software, open source hardware, digital fabrication practices and open design can be used effectively by local communities to make their own sensing tools, understand the environment and address current environmental problems of air, water, soil and noise pollution.

The Bristol Approach is a framework for managing inclusive, community-driven, digital projects involving technologies and sensor data. It is a new way of working that ensures smart city technologies and programmes respond to the needs and priorities of the people who use them. The model consists of six phases and is structured to ensure that community technology programmes are based on issues relevant to local needs and take place at the community level, with local citizens actively involved in design, 'testing' and evaluation.

Report on the study jointly designed with citizens to assess whether air pollution can affect attention, perceived stress, mood and sleep quality.

The results suggest that short-term exposure to air pollution may have adverse effects on attention performance and perceived stress in adults.

A study that uses collective intelligence mechanisms to co-design licenses to access and use our data.

The Time Pact is an initiative of Barcelona City Council that seeks the commitment of citizens and the council itself, to promote actions in the field of the uses of time that contribute to the reduction of social inequalities, the improvement of quality of life and the promotion of a plural economy at the service of people. Ideas for Change is a signatory to this pact.

Can citizen science projects be scalable from their conception? We have developed a theoretical and empirical framework to unpack the meaning of scaling and dissemination in citizen science.