These sessions' objective is to contribute to improving citizen observatories' technologies by sharing your opinion on the specific citizen science technological services that the Horizon2020 Cos4Cloud project is developing. Of course, you will also have a nice time chatting with a diverse group of people about citizen science. You don’t need any previous experience or training in co-design; just willing to enjoy these creative sessions!

If you join us, you will help overcome the challenges that citizen science communities currently face when processing data, images and videos. You also will be an active part of the open science movement: Cos4Cloud's technological services are open source and are intended to be adapted and improved by the interested community.

You can join the two following sessions, one or both of them, as you prefer:

MOBIS

MOBIS (Mobile Observation Integration Service), a service that will allow citizen scientists to customize their own project by collecting and combining all sorts of useful information from photographs or low-cost sensors linked to a mobile website or a native app platform.

• When: 10th of March, 15:00-17:30 (CET)
• Language: English
• Co-design facilitator: Science for Change, an experienced company that tackles societal challenges affecting communities using innovative techniques such as the co-design methodology, and DDQ, the service's development leader.
• Aimed to: developers, developers from citizen observatories, phyton, R and Linux developers, front end and back office developers and mobile apps developers, technology designers.

MOBIS Agenda:

Duration: 2h 30 min (15:00 to 17:30h)

• 15:00 - 15:15: welcoming and presentation of the co-design methodology (in charge of Science for Change)
• 15:15 - 15:35: presentation of the service to be co-designed ( in charge of DDQ)
• 15:35 - 15:40: explanation about the dynamics of the workshop, brief review of Miro tool and division into 2 (two) working groups (in charge of Science for Change)
• 15:40 - 16:20: brainstorming and grupal work on the "1st impression wheel". (both groups).
• 16:20 - 16:30: break
• 16:30 - 17:10: brainstorming and grupal work on the "Desirability wheel" (both groups).
• 17:10 - 17:30: return to the main group, presentation of conclusions (5 min each group for a total of 10 min) and closing.

Cos4Bio

The Cos4Bio is an online platform that integrates observations on biodiversity monitoring from various citizen observatories, potentially an enormous number of observations.

• When: 11th of March, 14:00-16:30 (CET)
• Language: English
• Co-design facilitators: Science for Change, an experienced company that tackles societal challenges affecting communities using innovative tecniques such as the co-design methodology, and Bineo Consulting, the service's development leader.
• Aimed to: environmental and biodiversity experts, citizen observatories managers, university professors, environmental students or professors, technology designers. 

COS4Bio Agenda:

Duration: 2h 30 min (14:00 to 16:30h)

• 14:00 - 14:15: welcoming and presentation of the co-design methodology (in charge of Science for Change)
• 14:15 - 14:35: presentation of the service to be co-designed ( in charge of Bineo Consulting)
• 14:35 - 14:40: explanation about the dynamics of the workshop, brief review of Miro tool and division into 2 (two) working groups (in charge of Science for Change)
• 14:40 - 15:20: brainstorming and grupal work on the "1st impression wheel". (both groups).
• 15:20 - 15:30: break
• 15:30 - 16:10: brainstorming and grupal work on the "Desirability wheel" (both groups).
• 16:10 - 16:30: return to the main group, presentation of conclusions (5 min each group for a total of 10 min) and closing.

How will the sessions work?

During the co-design sessions, you will be guided by a facilitator through a set of different phases:

1. Understanding the service to be co-design
2. Sharing your opinion on the service (strengeths, weaknesses, opportunitiesa and desired funcionalities) and evaluating the service usability.

Organized by: Cos4Cloud project and Science for Change.