Program & Speakers
Program
This is still a preliminary program. Please check the program again shortly before the start of the summer school. To download the program, click here: CSSS26_Programme_Version_20260601 (PDF, 50 KB)
Monday
Keynote by Prof. Dr. Nivedita Prasad
Prof. Nivedita Prasad, is Professor of Action Methods and Gender-Specific Social Work at Alice Salomon University in Berlin, where she heads the MA programme in Social Work as a Human Rights Profession, among other roles. Her research methodology is strongly oriented towards (feminist) participatory action research – a research method that tends to be neglected in Western Europe.
Citizen Science: An Umbrella Term
What makes a project a citizen-science project? And what forms can such projects take? In this session, Melanie Brand provides a concise introduction to citizen science, highlighting its key characteristics and exploring diverse ways in which citizen science projects can be designed and implemented. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own citizen science project/interests in small groups.
Project Marketplace
At the Project Marketplace, various local Citizen Science Projects will showcase their work and invite participants to engage in discussions around their project posters. It is about getting to know the challenges, failures, and open questions behind the projects — and learning from what didn’t work as much as from what did.
Tuesday
Parallel Workshop 1a: Working with or about a population group? Perspectives on Participatory Approaches using the Example of the Minga Methodology
by Prof. Yvonne Riaño, Associate Professor, Institute of Geography, University of Neuchâtel, and President of the Swiss Association of Geographers (ASG)
Parallel Workshop 1b: Community Management
by Pia Viviani, catta gmbh, founder and director
Wednesday
Keynote 2: Reshaping transformative knowledge - Inter- and Transdisciplinary research for societal transformations
by PD Dr. Bianca Vienni Baptista
Bar Camp
A Bar Camp is a participant-driven, informal conference where you lead discussions, workshops, and presentations. Instead of a fixed program set by the organisers, participants shape the agenda, sharing knowledge and ideas on topics that matter to them.
Thursday
Parallel Workshop 2a: Impact-Oriented Planning of Citizen Science Projects
by Olivia Höhener & Melanie Brand, Citizen Science Zürich
Parallel Workshop 2b: Research Design for Transformative, Participatory Citizen Science
by Ruth Förster, dr. ruth förster training & beratung
Excursion to the Ethnographic museum of the University of Zürich
Exploring Citizen Science for Collaborative Exhibition Curation & Archiving
Friday
Project Support Tools
In this session, you receive a practical introduction to guidelines, templates and (digital) tools developed by Citizen Science Zürich that can support your citizen science project.
Action plan and closing session
We reflect together about the main take-aways of the week and create an action plan for our own citizen science project.