LECTURE: COLLABORATION BETWEEN SCIENTISTS AND AMATEUR RESEARCHERS – ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
On Thursday, 19 December 2024, at 14.00 you are invited to the online lecture Collaboration between Scientists and Amateur Researchers: Acquired Knowledge and Experience. Lecturer will be Prof. Dr. Elena Bužan. The event will be streamed online via Zoom (https://upr-si.zoom.us/s/92963233616, Meeting ID: 929 6323 3616). The lecture will be held in Slovenian.
The lecture will present the activities and results of the international project StepChange (Science Transformation in EuroPe through Citizens involvement in HeAlth, coNservation and enerGy rEsearch). The project involved five citizen science initiatives in Europe and Africa in the areas of health (obesity and cardiovascular diseases; infectious diseases, including COVID-19), rational energy use, and wildlife protection and monitoring. They collaborated to examine the interplay between science and society and the capabilities of scientific research that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Application SRNA (Spremljanje in Raziskovanje Narave z Aplikacijo) will also be presented, which was developed by Slovenian researchers as part of the project. It is intended for everyone who wants to actively participate in discovering and preserving nature. It allows users to record wildlife sightings and test their species identification skills through a fun quiz that is part of the application. Researchers regularly publish interesting observations submitted by users and communicate with them through the application.
Elena Bužan is a full professor and researcher at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies at the University of Primorska and at the Faculty of Environmental Protection. Her research areas are molecular ecology and conservation biology, i.e. the application of genetics in wildlife conservation and management. Through leadership and participation in national (ARIS, CRP) and international projects (INTEREG, HRZZ, Horizon 2020 and Europa, Erazmus+) she significantly contributes to the development of molecular ecology as a tool for the protection and sustainable management of wildlife, and also puts scientific findings into practice through cooperation with ministries and protected areas. She led an international project StepChange in the programme Horizon 2020, which is based on the inclusion of citizen science in the fields of health, energy and nature conservation. She has been awarded for her academic and scientific achievements with: »Glasnik znanosti«, »Primorski um« and with the award from the University of Primorska. She is the member of Genetic Society Slovenia and the board of directors of the association ERGA (European Reference Genomic Atlas).
Please pre-register for the event via LINK >>
This is the fourth lecture in the OSUP series – Open Science at the University of Primorska. The event is organised by the University of Primorska as part of the project SPOZNAJ (Support for the Implementation of Open Science Principles in Slovenia). If you have any questions you can contact Dr. Ana Slavec, the editor of the OSUP series.
Past lectures that were organised within the OSUP series will be available on the YouTube channel of the UP University Library >>
More about the project SPOZNAJ >>
Project SPOZNAJ is co-financed by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and the European Union – NextGenerationEU through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
