Citizen Science ThinkCamp

We need your brains! The European Citizen Science Association Conference (http://www.ecsa2016.eu/) is in town for 3 days at the Kulturbrauerei and will be hosting a special event-within-the-event 'ThinkCamp' in collaboration with Science Hack Day Berlin, open to the local Berlin grassroots science & maker communities. // What is a ThinkCamp? A ThinkCamp is a hybrid “unconference” style event that provides an open and creative environment for developing new ideas and projects. We plan to bringing together a diverse range of disciplines, skill-sets and experiences – collective brain-power that we can harness to work together on curated Citizen Science Challenges. There will be a Show & Tell at the end of the day, for each Challenge ‘owner’ and the teams that emerged to present back to all Conference attendees what took shape during the ThinkCamp. // The Challenges Our list so far - take a look and think about which you might like to join... 1. **The ECSA Inclusiveness Challenge** - How can we make ECSA a more inclusive organisation? 2. **The WeCureALZ ‘Engaging Diversity’ Challenge** - Help us design unique & effective strategies to engage and retain diverse communities. 3. **The CitSci Communities of Europe Challenge** - Mapping the citizen science communities of Europe: how and why should we do this? 4. **The Overleaf Collaborative Writing Challenge** - How can Overleaf support collaborative writing between academics and citizen scientists? 5. **The Museum Data-Visualisation Challenge** - Help us make the visualisations of observation data gathered in the field more engaging and dynamic for our field-based Citizen Science projects. 6. **The HealthSites.io ‘CitSci for Health’ Challenge** - What Citizen Science projects become possible with the health facilities geo data being mapped on the HealthSites.io platform? 7. **The Motion-sensing Camera Trap Challenge** - Help us to design and build a DIY Camera Trap for Citizen Scientists around the World 8. **YOUR Citizen Science Challenge!** - If you are interested in setting a ThinkCamp Challenge in relation to your own project or project idea, please contact Margaret Gold of The Mobile Collective (margaret@tmc.bz), who will be facilitating the event. We will also have ‘Open Pitches’ for anyone wanting to issue a Challenge on the fly on the day itself. So you can just rock up and get creative with a Poster and pitch to all who are participating! More detailed info on each challenge and the ThinkCamp in general at our google site: https://sites.google.com/a/gold-mobileinnovation.co.uk/ecsa2016---citsci-thinkcamp/ // Practical Details Please register (for free) by 19th May so we know roughly how many people to expect: https://ecsa2016thinkcamp.eventbrite.de ThinkCamp participants also get full entry to the entire last day of the conference - lunch and drinks will be provided, and you are welcome to attend any other sessions or talks on that day (check out the programme here: http://www.ecsa2016.eu/programme.html). The event takes place in the Kesselhaus (http://www.kulturbrauerei.de/angebote/kesselhaus), please first head to the registration desk. Doors open at 10:30am, the ThinkCamp kicks off at 11am. ***Citzen Science Disco - Fri 20th May There will also be an opportunity to get thinking about the challenges and meet some of the other participants at the Citizen Science Disco on Friday, the evening before the ThinkCamp - all welcome! https://www.facebook.com/events/242122549509965/ Please share and invite anyone you think might be interested! Thx!