
{"id":1747,"date":"2025-08-05T17:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/active-citizens-for-biodiversity\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:22:19","slug":"active-citizens-for-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/en\/articoli\/active-citizens-for-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Citizens for Biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The role of Citizen Science in the National Biodiversity Future Center in light of the first year of the NBFC Citizen Science Working Group, a community that now involves about 150 researchers. Ecological citizenship education, awareness, empowerment and environmental responsibility. <\/p>\n\n<p>A year ago, in Palermo, one of the most ambitious experiences in the Italian participatory science landscape took shape: the birth of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbfc.it\/en\/news\/nato-il-tavolo-di-lavoro-nbfc-sulla-citizen-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>National <em>Citizen Science<\/em><\/strong><\/a> Working Group \u201cwithin the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbfc.it\/en\/news\/nato-il-tavolo-di-lavoro-nbfc-sulla-citizen-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>National Biodiversity Future Center<\/em><\/a> (NBFC), during the center&#8217;s first national forum (May 2024). T\u201d he objective? To coordinate, bring to light and support the numerous <em>Citizen Science<\/em> initiatives already active \u201cwithin the different spokes of the NBFC, to build a\u201d common action that is more structured and visible. I spoke about this with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museonaturalemaremma.it\/andrea-sforzi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Andrea Sforzi<\/a>, zoologist, director of the Maremma Museum of Natural History and coordinator of the working group.   <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bsw-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1741 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bsw-logo.png 900w, https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bsw-logo-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bsw-logo-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bsw-logo-624x356.png 624w, https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bsw-logo-600x343.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><em>&#8220;From the beginning we moved to make a sort of list of existing realities, of Citizen Science projects already developed by NBFC researchers&#8221;,<\/em> he recounts. <em>&#8220;We identified over twenty initiatives, but we are certain that there are many others that will be able to join our work in the coming months&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>The logic of the working group was not only reconnaissance, but above all generative. Twelve months later, during the <a href=\"https:\/\/rivistaeco.it\/biodiversita-come-infrastruttura-di-futuro\/\">second national NBFC forum<\/a> held in Milan in May 2025, the consolidation of this network was celebrated. The community built around the working group now involves about 150 researchers, who participate with different levels of involvement: those who already have direct experience in projects, those who are in the startup phase, those who are driven by a deep interest in the educational, social and environmental implications of participatory science.  <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/rivistaeco.it\/cittadini-attivi-per-la-biodiversita\/\">Read the full article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take stock, together with Andrea Sforzi (zoologist and director of the Maremma Museum of Natural History) on one of the most ambitious experiences in the Italian participatory science landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educazionesostenibile.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}