EU 2024 Prize for Citizens Science goes to three projects

On 12 June 2024, the winners of the EU 2024 Prize for Citizen Science were announced. Out of the 288 applications, three citizen science initiatives received the main prizes and 27 were recognised with honorary mentions. The winners are:

Grand Prize worth €60,000 goes to the EU-funded INCREASE project for its outstanding achievements in advancing knowledge on seed preservation through the empowerment of civil society and citizens in particular from rural areas;

Digital Communities Prize worth €20,000 is given to the Horizon 2020 project CoAct for Mental Health for its use of digital technologies to develop a personalised approach and improve the quality of life for people facing mental health problems;

Diversity & Collaboration Prize worth €20,000 is given to SeaPaCS Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution for producing transformative knowledge that filled the existing cognitive and emotional gap between society and the sea.

More information can be found in the EC Press Release.