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K. Fink, "Citizen Science 2.0 - Future City 2030+ Gelsenkirchen," 2020.
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As part of the BMBF-funded joint project "Learning City Gelsenkirchen - Education and Participation as Strategies for Socio-Spatial Development", a concept for cooperation between science and urban society (Citizen Science 2.0) with recommendations for action and conditions for success is to be developed in the Citizen Science research focus area. In this context, this paper aims to specify the as yet unspecified Gelsenkirchen model of Citizen Science 2.0. To this end, an overview of the prevailing concepts and scientific discourses in Germany is first provided. The specific Gelsenkirchen understanding of the term, derived from a document analysis and discussions with the city administration, is presented and a classification in scientific Citizen Science discourses is undertaken. There are also congruencies with current developments in the field of transformative and transdisciplinary research. Based on this, Citizen Science 2.0 can be placed in the context of cooperation between science and society with regard to socio-ecological transformation processes. Typologies from the fields of Citizen Science and participation form the basis for classification and differentiation from other Citizen Science models in the context of this paper. The main differences here are, on the one hand, the addressing of urban society - in contrast to "only" citizenship or civil society - and, on the other hand, the understanding of two parallel participation processes. The elaboration is the basis for further research work within the framework of the joint project and thus also for the conceptual further development of the Gelsenkirchen model.
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CitizenScience
LearningCity
Real laboratories
Transdisciplinary science
City of the future2030+