The BalkanScienceTellers Center of Helixconnect Europe aims to support the European Union’s and the Triple Helix Association’s citizen science targets with a focus on Western Balkans and Eastern Europe as countries and regions still lagging on this matter.
In the view of the European Union, citizen science is a broad term, covering that part of Open Science in which citizens can participate in the scientific research process in different possible ways: as observers, as funders, in identifying images or analysing data, or providing data themselves. This allows for the democratisation of science, and is also linked to stakeholders’ engagement and public participation.