Speaker
Gary Hemming
(European Gravitational Observatory)
Description
The REINFORCE project aims to engage and support citizens to co-operate with researchers and actively contribute in the development of new knowledge for the needs of science and society. The project will create a series of cutting-edge citizen science projects on frontier physics - gravitational-wave noise-hunting, neutrino astronomy, new-particle identification and cosmic muon images - with citizen scientists making a genuine and valued contribution to managing the data avalanche. Citizens will be engaged in the research done in large research infrastructures through a participatory design methodology that will take into account the characteristics of different target groups, barriers, perceptions, biases and attitudes regarding science.
