The Research Executive Agency (REA) announced an AURORA Honorary Mention during a Cluster event focused on “Advancing Public Engagement and Citizen Science in the ERA”. This event, co-hosted by the REA, brought together researchers and policymakers to discuss the impact of public engagement on evidence-based policymaking. The event also highlighted successful citizen engagement strategies and reinforced the importance of bringing science closer to citizens within the European Research Area. The event included presentations from EU-funded research projects on their citizen science and public engagement experiences. The EU Prize for Citizen Science was also announced at the event.
The judges highlighted the AURORA project:
“AURORA is a large EU-funded project focusing on energy, supporting citizens to take actions ranging from crowd-funding local energy projects to building and using sensors to monitor energy use behaviour. The jury was pleased to see the important topic of energy being explored using citizen science approaches, and how AURORA builds strongly on existing social communities, fostering sustainable engagement by adapting its citizen science model to local contexts and community-driven interests.”
