Below are some examples of citizen science and community-based monitoring initiatives, including the manuals they use and an overview over the most important lessons learned.
CARPADUS – Building community guidelines for the Arctic
The CAPARDUS project aims to support sustainable development in the Arctic by creating clear guidelines, standards, and practical methods for...
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H2020 FRAMEwork Project: Farmer Clusters for Realising Agrobiodiversity Management across Ecosystems
FRAMEwork was a five-year EU Horizon 2020 project (2020–2025) testing whether groups of neighbouring farmers, working collectively across farm boundaries,...
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Yakutia Community Based Monitoring
Since 2017, Indigenous peoples’ communities in Yakutia, Arctic Russia, have been monitoring the environment using community-based monitoring (CBM) approaches. These...
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Winterberry
Winterberry is a citizen science project where University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists and community volunteers investigate how shifting seasons could...
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The Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO)
The Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO) is a resource for Alaska Native subsistence hunters, coastal communities, and others interested...
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Yukon River Basin Indigenous Observation Network (ION)
The Yukon River Basin Indigenous Observation Network (ION) is a community-based environmental monitoring program led by the Yukon River Inter-Tribal...
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Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Cooperative
Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Cooperative is a community based monitoring program of the Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Society (ABEKS). It...
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Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub (AAOKH)
AAOKH stands for Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub. AAOKH was established in 2015, and builds on the observing efforts...
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MAARIFA: Transformative knowledge for people, forests and climate in Tanzania – Mageuzi ya Maarifa
This interdisciplinary project investigates how and to what extent digital citizen science can empower citizens and local knowledge systems, and...
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PISUNA (Opening Doors to Native Knowledge)
PISUNA is an abbreviation of Piniakkanik sumiiffinni nalunaarsuineq. PISUNA strengthens the involvement of hunters, fishermen and other interested in the documentation...
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Community-Based Monitoring and Management of Living Resources in the Faroe Islands
The project Community-Based Monitoring and Management of Living Resources in the Faroe Islands aims to share ‘good practice’ methods for involving resource...
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UArctic network on Collaborative Resource Management
The University of the Arctic (UArctic) is a network of universities, colleges, research institutes, and other organizations concerned with education...
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Heightening Engagement and Action for Arctic Collaborative Resource Management
This project connects Arctic and Mongolian resource users, managers, researchers, and students, to develop best practices for knowledge co-production in...
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More4nature – Empowering citizens in collaborative environmental compliance assurance via MOnitoring, REporting and action
The main goal of more4nature is to trigger transformative change in conservation efforts regarding zero pollution, biodiversity protection and deforestation...
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THRIVE – Towards a Harmonised landscape that expands the Role of citizen science in biodIVersity & Ecosystem services monitoring
THRIVE’s overarching objective is to transform the fragmented citizen science (CS) landscape into a coherent, large-scale and durable network of...
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