Would you like to help researchers understand the workings
of our sun, or discover how large crowds of people can work together? While you
may think such breakthroughs are the preserve of highly-specialised scientists
with expensive equipment, the EU-funded project SOCIENTIZE allows you to lend
your skills and time to some exciting research.
SOCIENTIZE builds on the concept of Citizen Science , which
sees thousands of volunteers, teachers, researchers and developers put together
their skills, time and resources to advance scientific research. Thanks to open
source tools developed under the project, participants can help scientists
collect data – which will then be analysed by professional researchers – or
even perform tasks that require human cognition or intelligence like image
classification or analysis.