Science Bar “Challenges and Powers of Participatory Science”

Brasserie Le Dôme – 2, Avenue Georges Clémenceau, 34000 Montpellier.
Free admission subject to availability.

Participatory science, also known as citizen science, is developing in various fields and generating considerable enthusiasm. It often involves study or research programs that bring together scientists and rely on the participation of volunteer citizens for their implementation in the field.

These forms of scientific knowledge production are designed by scientific organizations or collectives, which choose a subject and an issue for which a field protocol is proposed to various observer-actors. Their active participation makes it possible to collect a significant amount of data across the entire territory and repeatedly over time.

The approach is not solely scientific: it also serves to alert and raise awareness. In this case, a clear and well-supported assessment of the current situation is necessary upstream in order to participate in defining the public policies to be implemented.

This science-society debate brings together three speakers:

• Sylvie Blangy – CNRS researcher at the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE), Director of the Research Group, co-director of the International Human-Environment Observatory (OHMI) Nunavik.
• Nils Ferrand – Researcher at the National Research Institute Research Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA) – G-Eau Laboratory.
• Lionel Scotto d'Appolonia – Associate researcher at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research Didactics, Education, and Training (LIRDEF), deputy director of the Research Group.

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