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The COESO project<\/a> (Collaborative Engagement on Societal Issues) ran from January 2021 through December 2023. It was funded by the European Commission through a Science with and for Society<\/em> grant and led by the OPERAS research infrastructure. It served as a meeting point between various European communities representing social sciences and humanities, citizen science, and open scholarly communication. Its goal was to contribute to overcoming the obstacles that hinder the development of citizen science in the social sciences and humanities and facilitate and support participatory research through a number of actions, most prominently, the  development of VERA (Virtual Ecosystem for Research Activation)<\/a>, a hub for collaborative knowledge production and sharing. Additionally, COESO engaged research funding organisations to enhance financial support to citizen science. As a bridging endeavour, COESO worked together with existing communities such as Hypotheses.org<\/a> and EU-Citizen.Science<\/a>.  Moreover, it facilitated mutual learning exercises among practitioners to explore the frontiers of innovation in the social sciences and humanities\u2019 public engagement. Furthermore, to measure the quality of collaboration between researchers and citizens, COESO developed a proof of concept for a potential tool called \u201ccooperation analytics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the heart of the project were ten citizen science pilots, representing a variety of social sciences and humanities disciplines, societal challenges and types of engagement with citizens in different European countries. The pilots addressed specific societal issues: mass tourism, education and gender, resilient societies, fight against crime, societal changes, migration, inclusive city planning,  societal inclusion of ageing people, clean water accessibility, climate change awareness, and children\u2019s access to nutrition.  Information about each of the pilots, including links to their individual blogs can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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