Citizen science with Deaf and Hard of Hearing adults: Web2Learn’s workshop series in Thessaloniki
Building on successful EU initiatives (CitSci4all project, European Citizen Science project workshop series, Acting4DHH project funded by the IMPETUS Accelerator program), our Web2Learn team is happy to empower an underrepresented citizen community, namely Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) citizens of Thessaloniki, Greece, by engaging them in citizen science. Follow our journey!
The CitSci4All workshops
May 23, 2023: Citizen science workshop with DHH Secondary School students
September 2, 2023: Citizen science workshop with DHH adults
The ECS workshops in collaboration with the Association of the Deaf of Northern Greece.
December 10, 2023
January 19, 2024
January 28, 2024
February 4, 2024
Research
Our engagement with the DHH community is also reflected in a series of research work conducted throughout our workshop series. Specifically:
May 2022
Katerina Zourou and Stefania Oikonomou (Web2Learn), gave a talk on the CitSci4All project and Web2Learn’s actions at the online monthly meeting of the Empowerment Inclusiveness and Equity (EIE) Working Group of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA).
May 2024
Katerina Zourou and Stefania Oikonomou, together with researchers Alexandra Czeglédi and Barbara MIhok (ESSRG) submitted the research paper “Citizen social science: Two case studies with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities” at the Edulearn 2024 Conference, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1-3 July 2024.
September 2024
Forthcoming paper: Katerina Zourou and Stefania Oikonomou are working on a paper that will expand reflections from doing citizen science with the DHH community. The paper will be submitted to the Citizen Science 4 Good Conference, Bremen, Germany, 4-6 September 2024.
Funding
Web2Learn’s citizen science workshops with the DHH community in Thessaloniki took place in the framework of EU-funded projects. Thus, we would like to recognize the following projects:
- CitSci4All (2022-2024, Project Number: 2021-1-FR01-KA220-ADU-000035221), Workshops were part of Project result 3 Activity 2 (PR3A2) and PR4A1.
- ECS (2022-2026, Grant agreement: 101058509), Workshops were part of Task 5.2 Applied pilots on citizen inclusion.
Next steps
As of June 2024, we are organising the implementation of upcoming citizen science actions with the DHH community of Thessaloniki, in the framework of the Acting4DHH project.
The experiences of this 6-month project will further enhance our knowledge and expertise in inclusive and accessible citizen science, building on reflections shared in the joint paper “Citizen social science: two case studies with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities” (Oikonomou, Zourou, Czeglédi, Mihok, 2024).
Contact
Interested in collaborations for inclusive and accessible citizen science project?
Email us at: info@web2learn.eu