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Deliverable no.
D1.3.3
Deliverable name
Project Progress Report
Dissemination level
PU
WP no.
1
WP name
Management
Date
30/05/2014
Date of delivery
31/3/2014
Actual date of delivery
30/05/2014
Status
final
Author(s)
Fermin Serrano, Cândida G. Silva, Francisco
Brasileiro, Manuel Perez, Paulo Gama Mota, Teresa
Holocher, Jaime Gonzalez
Reviewer (s)
Candida Silva, Teresa Holocher
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Change log
Version
Date
Author/Editor
Reason for change / issue
0
28/04/2014
Fermin Serrano
Creation
1
4/05/2014
Cândida G. Silva,
Contributions
Francisco Brasileiro,
Manuel Perez, Paulo
Gama Mota, Teresa
Holocher
2
6/05/2014
Fermin Serrano
Review
3
20/05/2014
Fermin Serrano
Amendment Update
4
30/05/2014
Fermin Serrano,
Candida Silva,
Antonio Monteiro
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Table of Contents
1. Summary...........................................................................................................................................4
2. WP1 Management............................................................................................................................ 5
2.1. Persons months......................................................................................................................... 5
2.2. Amendment procedure.............................................................................................................. 5
2.3. Managing subcontractors.......................................................................................................... 5
3. WP2 Communication and citizenship.............................................................................................. 6
4. WP3 Infrastructure Operation and Deployment............................................................................... 8
5. WP4 Use of the infrastructure. Applications and Creativity ........................................................... 9
5.1. Urban Bees 2.0 Barcelona Workshop Overview Report. .........................................................9
5.2. Antimatter............................................................................................................................... 12
5.3. Collective Music Experiment ................................................................................................ 13
6. WP5 Evaluation and policy recommendations ..............................................................................15
6.1. White Paper online consutation.............................................................................................. 15
6.2. Activities supporting the evaluation and impact measurement..............................................18
7. Conclusions.................................................................................................................................... 18
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1. Summary
This deliverable reports the activities carried out by the consortium during the third period of
execution, from months 12 to 18 i.e. September 2013-March 2014.
This period has been quite intensive and exciting, with several major outcomes:
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Writing and publication of Green Paper.
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Online consultation for the White Paper
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Participation and contribution to ECSA meeting, Science 2.0 event in Brussels. Pisa FET
2020 event
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Organization and launch of 1st year event of the consortium, Public event and stand ICT2013
and evaluation meeting in Brussels
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Participation, support and sponsorship of London Citizen Cyberscience Summit
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Preparation of Sonar festival experience, ESOF14 – Science in the City festival, OKFestival
Berlin and the final event Sept Brussels for policy makers
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Publications in journals Science Bussiness, Euroscientist, Horizon 202 Projects, SciCom Pt
(june 2014)
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Launch of Sun4all application over PyBossa, Facebook version of mindpaths and Mcgi over
BOINC, Urban bees
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Hackathons and training events
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Inclusion with EGI-InSPIRE Desktop Grid Virtual Team
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Set of cooperation with FP7 projects: COFET2020, RRI Tools, IDGF-SP and ICT-ART
Connect, CAPS2020
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Science with University of Experience
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Creation of the citizen science permanent exhibition called “Ciencia Remix”
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Finish of the GA amendment
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2. WP1 Management
2.1. Persons months
During this period:
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UNIZAR have allocated 11.68 PMs. Five people were involved with the work, namely:
Fermin Serrano Sanz, Isabel Vidal Urbez, Beatriz Antoli Oca, Alfonso Tarancon Lafita,
Jaime Ibar Yubero, Jose Luis Alonso Buj, Francisco Sanz, Guillermo Losilla Anadon.
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ZSI have allocated 5.14 PMs.
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TECN have allocated 12 PMs. Involving Manuel Perez and Jaime Gonzalez.
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UFCG have allocated 8 PMs. Five people were involved with the work, namely: Francisco
Brasileiro, Nazareno Andrade, José Antônio Leal Farias, Adabriand Furtado and Guilherme
Gadelha.
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UC have allocated 18,8 PMs. Seven people were involved within the work, namely: Rui
Brito; Paulo Mota; Carlota Simões; Pedro Casaleiro; Maria Rita Portugal; Cândida Silva e
António Monteiro. Please note that this include MUSC merged into UC.
2.2. Amendment procedure
The amendment is complete. After the revision of the amendment, everything is ok, the only thing
that the European commission requires us is a transfer from Museum of Coimbra to Unizar with the
amount that Museum should reimburse (36.358,03 €). This amount represents the result of prefunding after Unizar will transfer to University of Coimbra (in the end 50.515 €).
Declaration of payments made to the MUS:
This partner had an initial payment of 39.286,80 € (prefinancing) on January 2013 and another
payment of 18.246,23 € on March 2014 so:
39.286,80 € + 18.246,23 € - 21.175 cost in the project = 36.358,03 € is the amount that should be
transfer to the UZ in order that UZ transfers it to UC.
2.3. Managing subcontractors
We had some delays from our side when signing the subcontract agreement with UB and
CERN. In addition, we are suffering now some delays with the reporting form UB (first
event was a great success) and CERN is also having some issues with the antimatter images
to analyze so they plan to go public by July. We are already late with the first subcontracted
applications report (due February 2014 related with UB). We could be more useful if we
report both applications together in July- September. The subcontracting process finalized
on late february, so they started with their job latter than expected.
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3. WP2 Communication and citizenship
Next table shows WP2 activities updated report within months 13 to 19. Please check D2.3.1 for
full information
Disemination
tasks
Item
Status
Design
Disemination Plan
Done
Design
Done
Image Handbook
Done
PowerPoint
template
Done
Website publication
Done
Website
communication
Done. Currently operating all languages.
Facebook site
316 likes.
Twitter account
716 tweets, following 220, 400 followers
Other Internet
19/02/2014. Cbase collaboration tool for the consultation on duty.
Whitepaper.socientize.eu
Linkedin
Live #Citizen Science group
Publications in
general media
05/02/2014, article on Socientize Cell Spoting, Jornal da Madeira;
Radio Interview Candida Silva RUC Radio; Radio interview Fermin
Serrano Radio 3;
OnLine
Communication
Radio Interview Candida Silva RUC Radio; C33 Portugal)
11/11/2013 Radio Interview Rui M. Brito and Paulo Mota, Antena 1
Radio, Portugal
Radio interview Fermin Serrano Radio 3 (Spain)
Publications in
specialised media
Third party
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Article "Citizen science can lower costs and increase excellence in
research" by Fermin Serrano, in ScienceBusines.net
http://www.sciencebusiness.net/news/76415/Citizen-science-can-lowercosts-and-increase-excellence-in-research#.UuDrjtNnebo.twitter;
26/02/2014 Fermin Serrano article on Euroscientist webzine "Towards
increasing citizens’ contribution to research".
Palma, M., Monteiro, A., Gomes, C. & Abrantes, I. (2014, May).
Citizen Science in School Context: The exemple of Cell Spotting: Let’s
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publications
referred to
Socientize
Fight Cancer Together!”. Proceedings of the 2º Meeting of Games &
Mobile Learning, Coimbra, pp. 334 – 343 Available at
http://hdl.handle.net/10316/25740
Ciencia Ciudadana en la Escuela. José Viñas para la Fundación Barrie.
Video
productions
Posters, flyers and
brochures
February, 2014. Postcards for collaborations to the WhitePaper.
Promotion materials
Mailbox during London CCS 2014.
Video
Video portuguese senior university Agueda, Portugal,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TECu-3V6QaE
Video Socientize Cell Spotting, Coimbra, Portugal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Otz2XIKCiA
2 Videos Sun4All event, https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=FVdVSMGe13E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdGxFTDGr8&feature=share&list=PLWb0hzwQYWV8Gx_Gr1PTRBxg1u4G1s6D2&ind
ex=4
Video Socientize presentation, Instituto Pedro Hispano, Coimbra,
Portugal https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=4Otz2XIKCiA&index=11&list=PLWb0hzwQYWV8Gx_Gr1PTRBx
g1u4G1s6D2
Video invitation to contribute to the Whitepaper
http://vimeo.com/88191636
Video Sun4All Socientize video https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=SIvKlPy65u0
Video Informed Society – Socientize Exhibition, Portugal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=1J71jDkD0kM&index=7&list=PLWb0hzwQYWV8Gx_Gr1PTRBx
g1u4G1s6D2
Video – Citizen Science Cultural Week of the University of Coimbra,
Portugal https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=fNTOhc1SK1o&index=15&list=PLWb0hzwQYWV8Gx_Gr1PTRB
xg1u4G1s6D2
Socientize events
Public events
organized
22/10/13 Socientize presentation by Fermin Serrano, at ECSA,
Brussels.
Project events
11/11/2013 1st year review meeting, Brussels
22/02/2014 Whitepaper workshop, London.
Project workshops
17/10/2014 Green Paper Workshop OnLine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55EoW0ixz9Q; 6-8/11/2013,
Vilnius 2013 ICT green paper workshop.
Target group
23/10/2013 presentation, Escola José Falcao, Coimbra
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specific events
(Portugal);11/11/2013 Socientize presentation, Instituo Pedro Hispano,
Coimbra (Portugal),
Co-organized
events
19/02/2014, Rui Brito and others, round table on Citizen Science and
Socientize in Coimbra, portugal.
Attending
conferences
6-8/11/2013, Vilnius 2013 ICT Event, booth at fair + networking
session
29/11/2014, Madrid, Mediaprado Lab, Fermín Serrano speech.
30/01/2014, @ferminserrano in Pisa (IT) @FET2020 event, "the future
of the future"
20-23/02/2014, Citizen Cyberscience Summit, London.
Dissemination
events
Volunteers oriented
activities
MoU's
09/10/2013 Socientize presentation, Coimbra, Portugal; 14/02/2014,
meeting with students in Sansueña School, Zaragoza (spain);
20/03/2014 Sun4All presentation, Coimbra, Portugal; 15/01/2014, 36
High Schools in Aragón, sign agreement to Socientize (Spain).
04/02/2011 Socientize presentation in Madeira (Portugal).
March 2011, preparing MOU with ECSA.
4. WP3 Infrastructure Operation and Deployment
Some of the events which required more operation and support of WP3 in Months 13 to 19. Please
check D3.2.2 for full information
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ICT2013 Exhibition lounge – Socientize: Citizen Science Lab. We set up the Citizen Science
Lab hosting several workstations with some of the most attractive experiments of Citizen
Science allowing visitors to get their hands “dirty” and contribute with different research
groups from all over the world.
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”Citizen Science Encounter” Hackathon. It was a two-day event (November 29-30, 2013)
organized by Medialab-Prado in collaboration with FECYT. This meeting invited hackers,
activists, designers, journalists, researchers, amateurs and citizens in general who aim to
learn and exchange ideas on citizen science and take part in a hackfest where proposals by
participants were developed. We provided technical support to some developers (e.g. odour
control).
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Citizen Cyberscience Summit 2014. SOCIENTIZE sponsored the Citizen Cyberscience
Summit 2014 (http://cybersciencesummit.org) organized by the interdisciplinary Extreme
Citizen Science research group (ExCiteS) of University College of London (UCL), the
Citizen Cyberlab, the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, and Mobile Collective. The consortium
organized a series of activities throughout the summit: (i) announcement of the consultation
process on the green paper on Citizen Science in Europe, (ii) presentation of the citizen
science applications developed by Socientize in the summit track “New frontiers in Citizen
Cyberscience”, (iii) organization of a workshop on policy recommendations to support
Citizen Science in Europe, and (iv) participation on the hackday, providing technical support
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to some developers (e.g. luminosity space pictures app).
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New frontiers in Citizen Cyberscience track – Socientize set of participatory experiments.
Roughly 20 people attended the presentation of four of the applications included in the
SOCIENTIZE portfolio which cross multiple scientific domains ranging from molecular and
cell biology and drug discovery (Cell Spotting), linguistics and semantics (Mind Paths),
energy saving and sustainability (SavingEnergy@Home) and astronomy (Sun4All).
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Workshop on Policy Recommendations to support Citizen Science in Europe. This
workshop opened formally the period of public consultation and community endorsement on
the Green Paper on Citizen Science for Europe available online at
http://whitepaper.socientize.eu. This online portal was developed using cBased tool. The
usage of the tool cBased was offered to us for free, so that the company owner of the tool
could take our consultation process as a case study afterwards.
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Urban Bee 2.0 Workshop (http://hangar.org/es/news/taller-abelles-urbanes-2-0/) took place
at the Hangar – Centre for Art Research and Production, Barcelona, in March 26 and 27,
2014. The subcontracted application UrbanBees was publicly presented during event.
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Arduino Day Zaragoza 2014. The Arduino Day is a worldwide event bringing together
Arduino people and projects, sharing theirs experiences! This year the Arduino Day took
place on March 29, 2014 in dozens of cities worldwide. In Zaragoza, the Arduino Day
(http://arduinodayzgz.es/) took place at the Dlabs: Zaragoza Hackers Space. The activities
developed included several Workshops, Show and Tell sessions, panel/Discussion, and
Demos. Francisco Sanz from Socientize co-organized this event representing the
SOCIENTIZE consortium.
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The International Space Apps Challenge (https://2014.spaceappschallenge.org) is an
international mass collaboration focused on space exploration that takes place over 48-hours
in 80 cities around the world. The event embraces collaborative problem solving with a goal
of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global needs applicable to both life
on Earth and life in space. This year we have 40 challenges and 25 projects from last year's
Space Apps that support NASA's mission directorates in five themes: Earth Watch,
Technology in Space, Human Spaceflight, Robotics and Asteroids. NASA is leading this
global collaboration along with a number of government collaborators and 100+ local
organizations. SOCIENTIZE sponsored the NASA Space apps challenge in Zaragoza (local
web: http://www.spaceappszaragoza.com/) from April 11-13, 2014 in the Etopia Building.
We awarded the project OpenCuriosity "Follow your curiosity, open your mind" as the Best
Citizen Science Project. OpenCuriosity is one of the 5 finalists of the global challenge.
5. WP4 Use of the infrastructure. Applications and Creativity
We present next an overview of the applications. We have 4 fully in production, with other 4
experiments under final development:
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Launched in production
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CellSpotting
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Mind Paths in Facebook.
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Sun4All
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UrbanBees
Under development (work in progress)
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SavingEnergy@home
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Antimatter
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mcgi (Pierpaolo Bruscolini – BOINC)
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Collective Music Experiment (Sonar+D)
5.1. Urban Bees 2.0 Barcelona Workshop Overview Report.
Further information will be found in the “Subcontracted Applications Report” to be delivered in
D4.4. September 2014. Dates: 26 and 27 March 2013. The Workshop was held at Hangar, Centre
for art research and production (C/ Carrer Emilia Coranty, 16, Barcelona). http://hangar.org
The aim of the Barcelona Urban Bees 2.0 workshop has been the construction of a beehive,
equipped with low cost, high quality sensors that allow capturing different data (temperature,
humidity, acceleration, sound, weight, and activity of the bees)
The participation of the workshop was free and the profile of the people that were looked for were
environmental scientists (bees and the environment), urban beekeepers, physicists of the science of
complexity (data science), technologists and artists capable of working on electronics, open source
and open data.
The workshop was documented through video recording, interviews to the organizers and
participants as well as pictures (Mar Morey). In the end of the project, a short video will be edited.
A social scientist was also contracted in order to record the contributions made by the organizers
and participants and to analyse the social dynamics that took place during the workshop. This report
will be provided at the end of the project.
Four self-organized groups were formed in order to build the sensorized beehives:
• Research Group
• Bee counters group
• The Hive Structure Group
• Sensor Programming Group
At the end of the workshop, the different parts of the sensorized beehives were put together and the
participants could visualize the data obtained in vivo.
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Next Steps
The workshop itself has its main goals but it only constitutes the first step of a more long-term
project. The mid term activities, on-going and foreseen, are the following:
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Technological testing and optimization: The sensors-equipped beehives are presently
calibrated and optimized, in order to come up with a stable equipment, able to provide
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reliable data for a broad range of climatic conditions. The two students in electronics
engineering and physics already involved in the workshop are responsible for this task.
Experiment runs over free software available at GitHub. The software used will those
compatible with Arduino components (sound, weight, temperature and eventually beecounter) and data representation will use open software coming from Data Science.
The test phase is including various components:
• testing of the sensors reliability
• testing of the software
• testing of the data flow
From May 15, the two beehives will be ready to be placed in an urban open door
location and filled with bees colonies.
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Open-door installation and beekeeping. The first beehive will be placed in Barcelona
Natural Museum terrace (Ciutadella Parc, Castell dels Tres Dragons) and filled with
bee colonies. The colonies will be taken care by an experimented beekeeper, following
the rules of ecologic beekeeping. The sensors will be regularly tested and cleaned if
necessary. The participants of the workshop will be involved in this process. An
collaboration agreement for long term vision will be signed with the Museum.
Launching of activities associated with the beehives
• Web page and Open data platform. The web page is currently in construction
(openbeeresearch.org) and the Open data platform will be built in collaboration
with the Openbeelab project in Bordeaux.
• Scientific Research. In addition of the “Open research” provided by the
possibility to export the data bases, “in-house” research will be performed. As
perspectives are right now open, we would like to intent to follow a bottom-up
approach, where the research topics are not only decided by experienced
scientific researchers but also by other participants having some type of
connection/knowledge related with the bees.
• Environmental education. The beehives will be used to explain / disseminate the
life cycle of the bees, especially for publics that are not a priori interested by
biological sciences.
• Artistic works. The “monitored” bees will be used as a source of inspiration or
as data providers for artistic works. It will be explored the possibility of having a
residence program.
The first public activities related with the sensorized beehives will take place during the
Science and Technology Festival, that will take place next 14th and 15th of June at the
Barcelona Ciutadella Park.
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5.2. Antimatter
The project proposed by Michael Doser aims to measure the gravitational interaction between
matter and antimatter. In order to do that, the scientific team behind this project needs volunteer
participation to find impact points between matter and antimatter. This application, quite different
from the previous one, targets the general public, and this allows us to bring closer the fundamental
science to them.
The Socientize and the Antimatter teams had a meeting last April . In this meeting we talked about
the status of the projects and the next steps to be done. It's expected to have a prototype of the web
at the beginning of June. The application will be officially launched between July and August. New
photos will be uploaded in September, allowing a re-launch of the application. The prototype and
the final version of the application will be implemented over mature and stable technologies, such
as Python, HTML5, Javscript and PyBossa.
Next steps
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To discuss with the existing programmer the changes that we need to make to obtain the
required functionality, both towards the physicists and the general public and start on
implementing these.This discussion will also include the communications manager, who
will guide us on the interfaces, layout and communication aspects and the physicists, who
have digitized the data, and need to prepare the data for the public.
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We have several different types of data sets, and want to start with the simplest one, where
all is obviously visible, which consists of antiproton annihilations directly in the emulsions.
Then we can follow up with a more complex topology, where only track fragments are
visible (annihilation in a foil in front of the emulsion.
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Finally, we will provide data with other target materials (Ag, Au, Pb).
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Later in the year (September), we intend to acquire further data sets, with other target
materials, thicker emulsions, much more statistics.
5.3. Collective Music Experiment
One of the challenges we face in the information age is to understand the collective intelligence and
the underlying mechanisms that occur when a big number of people engage and solve problems
together. Analyze the behaviour of crowds performing creative tasks collectively is a breakthrough
challenge as there are many complex issues involved and it is one of the future potential of the
citizen science.
Research on the use of crowds to perform complex creative work is difficult because of the nature
of the tasks and the nature of the crowd.The work arguably requires a high degree of cognitive
effort from each member of the crowd. At the same time, members of the crowd often lack expertise
relevant to the task. Moreover, the crowd is physically distributed and is hard to organize and
engage in dynamic interaction. Consequently, collective creativity is still in its early stages.
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To foster this understanding, the EU-funded Socientize project will run the “Collective Music
Experiment” at the Sónar+D with the Zaragoza-based artists R de Rumba, DJ from the Spanish
famous hip hop band Violadores del Verso, and Miguel Angel Mercadal. This open research
experiment will investigate and promote collective participation to obtain aggregated data on the
emergent and unpredictable creativity through amateur participants.
The experiment will be performed online in www.collectivemusicexperiment.eu This website
presents a traditional audio sequencer where users can generate music patterns. In addition,
participants are able to see in real time the sequencers of their neighbours so that people can reuse
best parts by selecting and incorporating them into their tunes.
CME entail great uncertainty about the ability of the performer to find a solution in a given amount
of time. It produces outputs that are new: the outputs are emergent. There are two ways new things
can emerge. First, through discovery: crowd participants can find something not seen before.
Second, through combination: integrating participant’s work can produce something novel.
CME scheme is the result of the non-routine task of musical composition. The output is
unpredictable, a result of the open interactions with the restrictions of the musical samples and the
network specifications enforced by system.
DJ-Producer R de Rumba
No musical background is needed. Collective creativity lays in the crowd generating and selecting
ideas leading to emergent and unpredictable result of massive interactions. Following a short period
of individual thoughtful inception, the best tunes will spread in the network evolving with time with
the only restrictions coming from the musical concept and from the system specifications. After
three days of accumulated phenomena from people with heterogeneous backgrounds, there will be a
good number of mixes and interactions to analyze. The resulting tunes will be interpreted and
performed live by the artists as part of Sónar+D which is the international conference for creativity
and technology of the Sónar Festival, so everyone at home can be part of this international event.
CME is not divide-and-conquer. CME is not map-reduce. CME is not hierarchical. It is latticenetwork-based mechanical statistics (predefined structure of neighbours) mixed with evolutionary
algorithms (where selections and fitness are selected by the crowd). The crowd generate ideas AND
the crowd select ideas.
This experiment is getting extraordinary support from EC (e.g. ESOF2014 Stand will host it, ICTArt connect aims to replicate this experiment as part of Bozar.be festival in Sept. 2014).
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Sónar+D 2014
CME is the first scientific experiment to be held within Sónar ever. Socientize selected Sónar for its
transdisciplinary approach and excellent reputation, making easier to reach thousands of people
from heterogeneous backgrounds. Some description about the Sónar festival and its subsection
Sónar+D:
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Sónar is the International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art taking place in
Barcelona during three days every June. Created in 1994, Sónar is a pioneering festival with
a unique format and content. It's first class reputation as a leading reference for international
festivals is by virtue of a carefully balanced cultural offering, combining a playful nature,
the avant-garde, and experimentation with electronic dance music's newest trends.
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Sónar+D is the international conference for creativity and technology, designed to promote
talent and business opportunities in the digital culture environment. Sónar+D is held in
Barcelona together with Sónar by Day at the Palau de Congressos in Fira Montjuïc. It brings
together experts from around the world (technologists, entrepreneurs, artists, companies and
researchers) to present and transmit initiatives and tools that will help to shape future
creative experiences in the areas of music, image, interactive content, and transmedia
platforms. Sónar+D is a meeting point with interdisciplinary and cross sector focus,
targeting professionals from the creative, technological and cultural industries, following
their interaction, knowledge sharing, debate and discussion, showcasing talent and
generating new business. Sónar+D organically integrates to Sónar, and contributes in
positioning the festival as an active catalyst in the creative technologies sector, far beyond
its natural habitat of music and new media.
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Sónar+D 2013 Facts & figures
◦ 3.325 accredited professionals, 57 countries, 1.356 Spanish, 1.996 internationals, 1.685
companies, 46,94% music, 22,24% technology, 16,18% marketing and design,71%
media, 5,93% institutions and universities
◦ Media at Sónar, 1.112 journalists, 453 internationals, 659 nationals, 489 media from 48
countries, 1.000 news. The media coverage reached an audience of more than 275
millions, valued in over 5.700.000 €
◦ Shared Experiences, 216 networking sessions with 24 experts, 15 Apps presented at the
AppCafé
◦ Live Experimentation,100 hackers and 24 participating companies at the 24h Music
Hack Day, 145 participants at 11 workshops for the Maker community, 27 tech shows
◦ Ideas Debate,959 participants throughout 11 conferences
6. WP5 Evaluation and policy recommendations
6.1. White Paper online consultation
Online consultation is still active in whitepaper.socientize.eu, but officially the discussion period
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ended with 95 participants to the survey and some interesting discussions on the online portal. From
the 95 participants, 44 respondents provided their own recommendation to the EC.
Whitepaper.socientize.eu using c-based technologies for online discussions
We are now elaborating the structure of our white paper and analysing all the feedback we received.
We observed two main trends we:
• The ones who want to professionalise the organisation, measurement, effectiveness etc. of
the rather traditional way of seeing CS. They are suggesting funding on different levels
(Local, national, EU, international) and longer-term for maintenance to keep alreadyestablished networks
• The others who want to avoid too much professionalisation, to leave room for future
developments of CS and make it more attractive for grass-root movements. No bureaucracy,
funding to grass root movements, single persons (and not only institutions) as beneficiaries
of funding streams...
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Some results from Online Consultation Questionnaire: Rating of first recommendations (n=95)
Some of the active contributors who suggested their own ideas for policy actions are: Andreas
Lieberoth/ Aarhus University, Centre for Community Driven Research, researcher. Anne M.
Dijkstra/ University of Twente, researcher, volunteer. Amy Robinson / MIT (EyeWire), researcher,
innovator. Rémy/ Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, researcher, innovator. Christopher
CM Kyba / Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, researcher. Susana C
Gonçalves, Centre for Functional Ecology, University of Coimbra, Portugal, researcher. Coral
Victoria de la Iglesia Meleiro, FAMUNCYT, Teacher. Sarah West, Stockholm Environment Institute,
resarcher. Cindy Regalado, University College London, reseracher, artist.
Christian Nold / University College London, researcher. Miika Tuisku, innovator. Luca Montabone /
Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, USA - Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, Paris,
France - University of Oxford, UK, researcher, innovator. Dr Adam McNamara / University of
Surrey, researcher, innovator. Dr. Pamela L. Gay / Southern Illinois University Edwardsville,
researcher, innovator. Filippo Addarii/ The Young Foundation, innovator. Muki Haklay / UCL,
researcher. Francisco Castejón / CIEMAT, researcher. Kat Austen / UCL, researcher. Paulo A. M.
Marques / ISPA-IU and MUHNAC, Portugal, researcher. Jayne Fenton Keane / Inspiring Australia,
researcher. Belén Barroeta / University of Alcala-UAH, Spain, researcher. Ramon Sangüesa / La
Mandarina de Newton SL, reseracher, innovator. Lotta Tomasson / Vetenskap & Allmänhet, VA
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(Public & Science). Rosina Malagrida, Head of Public Engagement on Health Research /
IrsiCaixa, science communicator. Open Air Laboratories (OPAL), David Slawson, Poppy Lakeman
Fraser, Roger Fradera, Laura Gosling, Kate Martin/ Imperial College London, researcher.
Michelle Brook / Open Knowledge Foundation, researcher. Raymond Lewis / Marine Care Rickets
Point Inc, researcher, volunteer, innovator. Libby Hepburn / Atlas of Life, reseracher, volunteer,
innovator. Irene Lapuente / La Mandarina de Newton S.L.
Andy Donnelly / Cambridge Science Centre, innovator. Katia Smith-Litière / Cambridge Science
Centre. Dr. Chris Lennard / Cambridge Science Centre, other. Yael Kisel / University of Göttingen,
researcher. Giuliana Rubbia / Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - INGV Roma, Italy,
reseracher. Robert Lovas / MTA SZTAKI / International Desktop Grid Federation, researcher. Lucy
Robinson / Natural History Museum London, other.
In addition to the number and quality of respondents, they come from many countries in Europe,
with different profiles. Some contributions represent key stakeholders (e.g. ECSA or IDGF) who
understood this open debate like a key opportunity to engage with one single voice representing
larger communities.
6.2. Activities supporting the evaluation and impact measurement
Preparation of further evaluation instruments, like interview guidelines to discuss barriers and
drivers for citizen science with different target groups (teachers, people 50+), preparation of
reporting templates, preparation of the Mind path online questionnaire, interview guidelines for
researchers;
Workshop with seniors on Citizen science organised in Portugal: March 12, 17, 19 and 27, 2014 (5
sessions), Number of participants: 43, questionnaires and discussion to understand the drivers and
barriers of citizen science for 50+ people.
Roundtable on Citizen science organized on March 5, 2014, in Portugal: Number of participants
18,questionnaires and discussion to understand the drivers and barriers of citizen science.
School events in Portugal with teachers and students, with more than 60 teachers and more than 560
students participating. Numbers of questionnaires filled in by approx. 500 students.
7. Conclusions
Socientize consortium has taken into account all of the recommendations from the reviewers after
the 1st review meeting. All the tasks from the WPs have progressed and major effort has been
oriented to consolidate the community debate around the White Paper, acting also in several
conferences and events with many relevant stakeholders.
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