Citizen science, a collaboration between science and society

Citizen science refers to research initiatives in which members of civil society participate in scientific production processes.

These collaborations between scientists and citizens, between laboratories, observers, and associations, take many forms and reveal a wide diversity of disciplines, actors, and subjects. All have a common goal: to produce scientific knowledge through active collaboration between the scientific community and civil society.

To discuss this topic of science and society, three multidisciplinary experts will answer questions from the audience live:

• Dominique Desclaux, Doctor of Biology, researcher in agronomy and genetics at INRAE, co-winner of the 2022 Participatory Research Award with the program "From Seed to Plate" – INRAE Occitanie-Montpellier (DiaScope)

• Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti, Doctor of Social Sciences and Rural Studies, researcher in agroecology at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Argentina), Professor of Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires. Guest scientist at MAK'IT – University of Montpellier.

• Jean-Philippe Venot, Researcher at IRD, specialist in governance and water and irrigation policy at the Water Management, Stakeholders, Uses (G-EAU) unit – IRD Occitanie

The Science Bar season is co-produced by the scientific culture departments of the University of Montpellier and its partners: INRAE, INSERM, and IRD.

Free admission subject to availability.

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