After three years of engaging temporarily displaced youth in citizen science, we are excited to share our experiences at this upcoming webinar, organised by Nesta, one of the partners of the Map4Rec funder, IMPETUS. Join us on April 2nd for a discussion on making citizen science more inclusive and diverse, where we will explore practical […]
Designing for Inclusion & Diversity in Citizen Science – Webinar Read More »
We are pleased to announce that our project report from “Mapping for Recreation (Map4Rec)” (2023), will be published in April 2025 in the Living Maps Review, Issue 17. However, it is already publicly accessible on Zenodo. The Map4Rec project engaged 74 temporarily displaced children and youth from Ukraine in geographic citizen science — mapping
Summer on a GeoBike: Map4Rec 2023 project activities, methods, tools Read More »
We are excited to announce the publication of Fantastic Creatures of Twente and Where to Find Them, a creative culmination of the Nature Discovery Quest in the location-based game Mission Earth 2024 that we played in the summer of 2025 as part of the Mapping for Recreation project. You can download it here: https://zenodo.org/records/14931644. Mission
“Fantastic Creatures of Twente and Where to Find Them” is out! Read More »
The video about Mapping for Recreation 2024 (“Mission Earth” Edition) is now live! Watch as the Mission Leaders report back to the Mission Centre of Galaxy 9352, sharing their discoveries and insights from Planet Earth. 🌎🔭
Video of Map4Rec 2024 (“Mission Earth” edition) is now live! Read More »
On October 26, we held a unique event – the First Unconference “Children, Nature, and Cities”, organized by children, for children. It was far from a traditional conference — instead of presentations and formal talks, there was an atmosphere of discovery, fun, and hands-on learning, all set against the beautiful backdrop of the Beeklustpark in
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Our brochure on citizen science with refugee youth is available online. We hope it will inspire readers to think of citizen science as a unique therapeutic space that promotes nature contact and protection, leads to place discovery, strengthens social structures, and improves longer-term mental and physical health. Download the brochure
A sustaining grant has been awarded by IMPETUS for the project “Mapping Sports and Recreation Opportunities with Refugee Youth”. Based on participants’ feedback, this summer we aim to enhance three aspects of the campaign: a) introduce and test a gamification component through a location-based game, b) diversify data to be collected, and methods for data collection
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It was a great pleasure to be invited to the GIScience colloquium at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. I was inspired to see how many scholars are interested in citizen science, are keen to share challenges and learnt lessons, and to collaborate for an increased positive impact on communities.
Invited Talk at the GIScience Colloquium at the University of Zurich Read More »
The presentation will focus on the key impacts, challenges, and lessons derived from the “Mapping Informal Sports and Recreation Opportunities with Youth (Map4Rec)” project.
Abstract accepted for a presentation at the ECSA conference in Vienna, April 2-6, 2024 Read More »
Participants were stoked to see the article, and to see that their work matters! Read the article (free registration might be required)
Tubantia publishes an article on Map4Rec Read More »
