monitoring and reporting. This could also contribute to the improvement of the implementation of environmental legislation. 3.2 General and specific objectives General objective: The contractor shall provide a comprehensive overview of current and past citizen science activities already or potentially contributing to environment policies at EU, national and regional level and, where applicable, some non-EU examples. Lessons (positive or negative, strengths and issues encountered) have to be extracted from the cases identified. Specific objectives: Set up a re-usable format and criteria for an inventory of citizen science activities which support environment policies. Identify and collect the current and past citizen science activities already or potentially contributing to environment policies at EU, national and regional level and, where applicable, some non-EU examples. Describe the most important elements of the identified citizen science activities, to allow further analysis and sharing, using the re-usable format mentioned above. Extract strengths and weaknesses of the identified activities, in particular in of integration of citizens' data into environment policies (for early detection, monitoring and reporting, compliance assurance) but also in terms of citizens’ engagement. 3.3. Tasks Task 1: Information gathering (Months 1-2) The contractor shall identify citizen science activities already or potentially contributing to environment policies at EU, national and regional level and, where applicable, some non-EU examples. EU funded projects (Horizon 2020, Life, Structural Funds, Interreg, COST) shall also be screened for relevant activities. The contractor will collect information through different sources: literature, interviews with citizen science communities (e.g. associations and networks, practitioners) and public authorities (EU, Member States also in line with the – Environment Implementation Review process -, regional authorities) and desk research. The contractor will need to develop a strategy that will allow the identification of all the relevant citizen science activities. As a result of task 1, the contractor will produce a draft list of relevant citizen science activities (Deliverable 2, see below) to be discussed and agreed with the Commission in case prioritisation is needed. Task 2: Detailed inventory (Months 3-4)
monitoring and reporting. This could also contribute to the improvement of the implementation of environmental legislation. 3.2 General and specific objectives General objective: The contractor shall provide a comprehensive overview of current and past citizen science activities already or potentially contributing to environment policies at EU, national and regional level and, where applicable, some non-EU examples. Lessons (positive or negative, strengths and issues encountered) have to be extracted from the cases identified. Specific objectives: Set up a re-usable format and criteria for an inventory of citizen science activities which support environment policies. Identify and collect the current and past citizen science activities already or potentially contributing to environment policies at EU, national and regional level and, where applicable, some non-EU examples. Describe the most important elements of the identified citizen science activities, to allow further analysis and sharing, using the re-usable format mentioned above. Extract strengths and weaknesses of the identified activities, in particular in of integration of citizens' data into environment policies (for early detection, monitoring and reporting, compliance assurance) but also in terms of citizens’ engagement. 3.3. Tasks Task 1: Information gathering (Months 1-2) The contractor shall identify citizen science activities already or potentially contributing to environment policies at EU, national and regional level and, where applicable, some non-EU examples. EU funded projects (Horizon 2020, Life, Structural Funds, Interreg, COST) shall also be screened for relevant activities. The contractor will collect information through different sources: literature, interviews with citizen science communities (e.g. associations and networks, practitioners) and public authorities (EU, Member States – also in line with the Environment Implementation Review process -, regional authorities) and desk research. The contractor will need to develop a strategy that will allow the identification of all the relevant citizen science activities. As a result of task 1, the contractor will produce a draft list of relevant citizen science activities (Deliverable 2, see below) to be discussed and agreed with the Commission in case prioritisation is needed. Task 2: Detailed inventory (Months 3-4)
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