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Code respository for AutSPACEs: the Autistica/Turing citizen science platform
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Submit to 2024 EU Prize for CS #663

Closed gedankenstuecke closed 3 months ago

gedankenstuecke commented 4 months ago

Summary

The European Union Prize for Citizen Science is open for submissions again. We already submitted an application in 2023 (c.f. #434) but were not successful.

The organisers of the prize reached out with some brief feedback from last year's reviewers:

Every year there is a new independent jury that will be evaluating the submissions, which means basis on their expertise the aspects that were scoring of your project last year could be different and fit the final selection for this year 2024. […] Your submission scored highly in terms of Social Quality & Policy Impact and Diversity & Collaboration while it received lower scores in European Dimension criteria. So in terms of resubmission we would recommend highlighting these aspects of your project in the submission, but not at the expense of the other criteria, as the new jury will not have access to previous submissions, only new submissions.

Overall, they encourage us to re-submit with potentially those changes to clarify the European dimension of the project. Two aspects we could easily lean into are:

  1. Presenting internationally to network with related initiatives
  2. Ongoing collaboration efforts with a related CS initiative in France (with Marie P)

Deadline

Submission deadline: March 11, 2024!

What needs to be done?

Who can help?

Updates

gedankenstuecke commented 4 months ago

I created an updated version of the application texts. The main changes are:

  1. I shortened the description of the moderation co-creation, instead referencing the preprint/paper!
  2. Added a bit on how we ran user tests and have a platform that's ready to deploy
  3. That we are launching data collection soon
  4. Added in bits on how we collaborate with people outside the UK (e.g. the projects in Spain & France)

Hopefully that strengthens our case quite a bit!

gedankenstuecke commented 3 months ago

And submitted, the text I used is archived here