Science bar "The stakes and powers of participatory science".

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Participatory science, also known as citizen science, is developing in a variety of fields, and is generating considerable interest. These are often study or research programs involving scientists, whose implementation in the field relies on the participation of volunteer citizens.

These forms of scientific knowledge production are designed by scientific organizations or collectives, who choose a subject and a problematic for which a field protocol is proposed to various observers-actors. Their active participation enables a large amount of data to be collected over the whole territory and repeatedly over time.

The approach is not only scientific: it also serves to alert and raise awareness. And in this case, a clear and well-founded assessment of the situation is necessary beforehand, so as to be able to take part in defining the public policies to be implemented.

This science-society debate brings together three speakers:

• Sylvie Blangy - CNRS researcher at the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Director of the Groupement de Research Parcs, co-director of the Observatoire Hommes-Milieux International (OHMI) Nunavik.
• Nils Ferrand - Researcher at the Institut National de Research en Sciences et Technologies pour l'Environnement et l'Agriculture (IRSTEA) - G-Eau Laboratory.
• Lionel Scotto d'Appolonia - Associate researcher at the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Research en Didactique, Éducation et Formation (LIRDEF), sub-director of the Groupement de Research Parcs.

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