Prof. Stephen Serjeant and Dr. Hugh Dickinson
The ESCAPE Citizen Science (CS) is an ambitious astronomy and astroparticle physics programme of scientific and public engagement that trains and educates the community in the usage and implementation of the ESCAPE services and ESFRI facilities, in line with the FAIR principles. The ESCAPE CS programme engages the society at large, namely young people, to foster innovation in science and technology, contribute to real scientific discoveries and support the implementation of EOSC via the next generation of university students, scientists and engineers, who are the future users of the ESFRI facilities.
Besides the experiments with embedded educational resources, the ESCAPE CS will provide a public engagement video series, highlighting the data-science for the ESFRI facilities opened up by the implementation of EOSC and inviting the viewers to participate in a related mass participation experiment.
The science-inclined public and the expert specialist science communities
If you're interested in astronomy or physics, and you want to make a real scientific contribution, come join our citizen science projects and be part of the open science revolution!
We provide the science-inclined public with the most accessible way to get genuinely involved in the scientific discoveries of the astronomy and physics ESFRI facilities in the EOSC. The benefits to the scientific communities are that volunteer crowdsourcing is the best approach for many complex scientific data mining problems, and it has an excellent track record for finding unexpected features missed by automated data processing. Ours is the best approach for getting the general public genuinely involved in the scientific discoveries of the astronomy and physics facilities in the European open science cloud. The citizen science methodology is uniquely well suited to many data mining challenges faced by the ESFRIs in the EOSC.
SuperWASP is the Wide Angle Search for Planets. There are lots of hidden black holes in our galaxy, only a handful will be orbiting in a planet that means they pass in front of their companion star when viewed from the Earth using SuperWASP. The rarity of these perfectly aligned systems means is very rare. Make science history and help us find one!
An unprecedented view of what skies look like at radio wavelengths, with answer many questions on the evolution of galaxies and the supermassive black holes that they harbour. Sort through this fascinating, state of the art radio data and identify supermassive black holes and starforming galaxies!
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