During the National Commons Assembly in Belgium on 7 March, our research group hosted a workshop on the importance of involving citizens in research at every step (extreme citizen science). Lukas Held explained how this takes shape at CollectieveKracht and the role citizen collectives played in data collection, which led to the first Citizen Collectives Monitor last December. Check out the monitor here.

Before that, Professor Tine De Moor (Erasmus University Rotterdam) gave a lecture on citizen collectives as alternative organizations. “There are three principles that enable mechanisms leading to the resilience of these organizations: reciprocity, solidarity, and sufficiency.”