IMPETUS: Bringing Science to Society

In July the IMPETUS project was launched. With KCL as scientific and technical lead, it will fund and support citizen science initiatives across Europe, building on the success of the ACTION project. Over the next four years, IMPETUS will support and give recognition to outstanding citizen science projects in Europe, seeking to enable more diverse citizen science initiatives to access funding, bring citizen science closer to society and policy makers, acknowledge the role citizen science plays in tackling the greatest challenges of our times, and enable citizen science projects to contribute to Green Deal and UN Sustainable Development Goal commitments. IMPETUS will fund and support 125 citizen science initiatives focused on different sustainability goals, as well as diversity and inclusion, and open science, and launch the EU Prize for Citizen Science, which will award prizes for outstanding achievements, diversity, and innovative grassroots projects. IMPETUS will shape policy across the EU, help more citizen science data to inform evidence-based policies, and identify future directions in citizen science policy itself.