The research project aims to investigate and analyze the impacts that Citizen Science can have on people's daily lives, both from an educational and learning perspective, as well as from a methodological and scientific knowledge standpoint for non-experts, in connection with its nature as an activity that produces scientific knowledge, endowed with its own methods and epistemological principles.
The project includes an applied component, involving activities with outreach, awareness, and educational interventions aimed at citizens and schools.
This work also seeks to deepen and investigate the methodologies and fields in which Citizen Science is applied. An investigation into this discipline, which can be broadly employed with various applications, will aim to acquire both the characteristics that define its specific epistemological status and its usability as a subject of connection, interaction, and cooperation between philosophical and social disciplines and scientific disciplines, precisely because of its role as a new way of viewing the relationship between science and society.
Finally, the project aims to investigate the level of scientific knowledge within society, specifically how Citizen Science takes into account people's actual knowledge, the methodologies used in Citizen Science, how it works, and the impacts it has on society and individuals, with the goal of identifying strategies for spreading Citizen Science and understanding its limitations, also within the broader framework of the "third mission."
