Various research centres, companies and organizations from eight countries are participating in the Cos4Cloud project. Learn more about them!
Coordination
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM)-CSIC
Spain
Project coordination (WP1), lead the global proof of concept validation (WP5), communication and engagement activities (WP8) and ethics (WP9).
Consortium
Trébola Organización Ecológica
Colombia
Lead the evaluation of do it yourself (DIY) devices (WP5) and test and contribute with design criteria for the framework for customizable data analysis services (WP3). Support the proposing communication protocols for DIY instruments (WP2) the development of Datathons (WP5), the creation of common specifications for citizen science project hosting services and support the communication (WP8).
French National Institute for computer science and applied mathematics (INRIA)
France
Develop automated species identification services, location-based species prediction services and a collaborative data management and enrichment services (WP3) at a geographical and taxonomic scale never reached before. Contribute to ensure the interoperability of the developed technologies and services (WP2). Contribute to the networking, training and capacity building activities (WP6).
European Citizen Science Association (ECSA)
Germany
Connection of Cos4Cloud services with ECSA new portal (WP6); representation of citizen perspectives in project exploitation (WP7); production of a citizen- science toolbox and evidence hub (WP6), support the communication (WP8).
52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH
Germany
Contribute to architecture definition, development of interoperability standards, profiles and best practices (WP2). Lead the development of agile development methodology (WP2). Contribute to interoperability, conformance, and performance testing activities as well as the evaluation of TRLs (WP5). Support networking activities (WP6). Contribute to the dissemination activities (WP7) and international standardization.
Secure Dimensions GmbH (SECD)
Germany
EOSC compliant service architecture, authorization and GDPR services for security in EOSC (WP2).
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
Greece
Contribute to WP6 leading the organization and evaluation of school-based citizen-science activities. Contribute to WP5 by organizing and running citizen science activities with adults and school students to measure the impact of use of Cos4Cloud services and contribution on dissemination activities (WP8)
DDQ
Netherlands
Develop and connect mobile platforms, design UX and new flexible back ends based on existing services (WP 2, 4) and to share and apply our knowledge about citizen observatories and citizen science apps (WP5).
Bineo Consulting
Spain
Leader of the Expert Platform with a microservice architecture (WP4), measurement of the evolution of services (WP2), interactive service (WP3), co-design as a service (WP5), IP innovation management and Strategy for sustainability of services (WP7).
Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF)
Spain
EOSC compliant service architecture (WP2) leader. The architecture design will ensure a good connection between current EOSC services and innovative citizen observatories’ services. CREAF is also in charge of developing the Interoperability and adoption of standards throughout the project (WP2). Contribute to data quality practices in citizen observatories will be included in the QualityML vocabulary (WP4). Co-lead with the ICM-CSIC the communication strategy, website development, materials and videos (WP8).
Instituto de física de Cantabria (IFCA) - CSIC
Spain
Develop the data analysis tools and re-use automatic image services (DEEPaaS), WP3.
Science for Change
Spain
Science for Change leads the co-design aspects of Cos4Cloud to be applied in the deployment of new services for citizen observatories. The methodology will be used in a cross cutting fashion in all project actions.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Sweden
SLU is involved primarily in WP4 and WP5 by providing observation data to the Expert Portal. These data include data validated by Swedish national validation committees. Also provides linkages to the Swedish ARCS citizen science portal and to international audience.
DynAikon
United Kingdom
Mainly involed in developing automatic video stream processing service (WP3) and a platform for interactive pre-processing of large datasets (WP4).
Earthwatch
United Kingdom
Earthwatch is a non-profit private research organisation and one of the largest global backers of citizen-science–supported environmental research. For over forty years, Earthwatch has delivered a unique citizen-science model to empower individuals, students, teachers, and corporate fellows to contribute to critical field-research to understand nature’s response to change. Earthwatch’s work supports hundreds of PhD researchers across dozens of countries, conducting over 100,000 hours of research annually. Earthwatch’s mission is to engage people worldwide in scientific research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment. To achieve its mission, Earthwatch works with multiple partners, universities, schools, businesses and other environmental organisations, to develop robust and impactful citizen-science programmes that contribute to valuable ecological challenges while providing an engaging experience that builds commitment for action. Earthwatch has centred its activities on research in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems by training and engaging more than 20,000 citizen scientists, including thousands of teachers. In Cos4Cloud, Earthwatch leads the project dissemination and exploitation (WP7), contributes to the work on interoperability (WP2); provides FreshWater Watch as an exemplary service, building on Freshwater Links, making this platform more accessible to scientists and the public (WP5), and supports the communication tasks (WP8).
The Open University
United Kingdom
Lead on training, education and capacity building activities and a citizen science tool box with Evidence Hub (WP6), facilitate participation in citizen science activities and research (WP5), contribute to an AI reputation assessment service (WP3) and support the communication activities (WP8).
