1. Guidelines.

Form:

- Length of each answer: 5 minutes maximum.

- Length of the whole interview: 40 minutes at most.

- Language: national or English

Content:

- Focus on the **methodological part**. The idea of the pilot is to produce experience-based educational resources for young stage researchers who seek for methodological advice on participative research.

- Each answer should have a **clear beginning and a clear ending**. The interview will be divided in 8 parts corresponding to 8 main questions. Thus, you will provide 8 answers, and each answer will be published as a **separate video**.

- There will be no interviewer (thus, no additional questions), only researchers will be filmed. Each of 8 main questions has a list of sub-questions that we suggest using **as a plan** for your answer.

- If you don't have an answer for one of the **sub-questions you can skip it**.

- **Avoid repetitions** where possible.

- **Prepare your answer in advance.** If you do interview in English - you can share your notes with all cluster members, if you do interview in your national language - you can share it with your university cluster representative and discuss it bilaterally.

-> Questions highlighted in blue concern the researchers who did not put the project in place yet
## 2. Questions.

### 1. Introduction. Could you introduce yourself and your project?

* Could you introduce yourself and your project?

* What was your motivation to collaborate with non-academic partners and start a citizen science research project?

**=> What is your motivation...**

### 2. Project design and funding scheme. How did you design and fund your project?

* What was important to take into consideration during the project design?

* How was the design of the project organised? Were citizens involved in the definition of the project?

* Were you working alone or with a research team? How the responsibilities between you and your colleagues have been shared? How was the project funded?

* Have you collaborated with any other third parties? (associations, local authorities, local cultural institutions, etc.)

**=> Focus on how you have elaborated the design of the project. If you applied for the grant, precise the requirements and how you responded to it.**

### 3. Engaging the citizens. How did you engage the citizens in the project?

* How did you find citizens to participate in the project? Was it hard to establish the first contact and what helped you in it?

* Who were the citizens involved? (for example, minority groups) How many citizens have been involved?

* Did you have a specific strategy to engage citizens?

* How was the communication with citizens organised? Which tools, technologies did you use?

* If you have collaborated with third parties, what exactly was their role? Did they help in engaging citizens and communicating with them?

**=> How do you plan to find relevant participants among citizens and engage them? What is your strategy? Which communication techniques and tools are you planning to use?**

### 4. Role of the citizens. Which role did the citizens have in the project?

* Have citizens participated in the:

* Design of the project

* formulation of the research question

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* gathering of data

* analysis of the research results

* dissemination of the research results

* evaluation (have they been asked about the success and impact of the project?)

* Why was it important to make citizens actively participate in the project? What was the added value of the collaboration? Without citizens, what would be the result?

* How did citizen participation impact the quality of the research? Was there any issuer-related to the reliability of the data?

**=> Which role for the citizens do you foresee in your project and why?**

**5. Barriers and enablers. What were the bottlenecks and barriers in your project? How did you manage to overcome it?**

* Which biases did you have to take into consideration?

* Did any conflicts arise? If yes, how did you manage it?

**=> Which barriers do you expect to face and how do you plan to overcome it?**

**6. Impact and sustainability. What was the impact of the project? Were the result sustainable?**

* What are the responsibilities of the academic researchers towards citizens? Are there any risks in terms of the impact that should be foreseen?

* How did citizens benefit from their participation in the project?

* How was citizen participation recognised?

* Do you still have contact with citizens? Is there a potential for a long-term collaboration?

* What were the consequences of your collaboration? Social, economic, political, cultural, etc.

**=> Which impact do you expect from your project? How do you plan to evaluate it? Do you expect short-term or long-term collaboration?**

**7. Institutional support and recognition. How did your university support you?**

* Have you received any support from your university? Which type of support have you received? (in project design, management, communication, technical tools, etc.)

* Should citizen science projects have a specific support? What kind of support?

* Is there a recognition at your institution for citizen science projects? Are they valued in your institution/country?

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* What impact the project had on your career?

* Do you think European universities, such as Una Europa, can support researchers in citizen science projects? And how?

-> **Do you expect some support from your institution? What type of support do you need? How could Una Europa support you in your project?**

8. Conclusions. What is a potential of citizen science for the European research? What would be your advice for the researchers who plan to start a citizen science project?

* What is the potential of citizen science for the research community? Which impact it may have on your discipline?

* What is the potential of citizen science for the European policies?

* Which competencies would you advise to develop or team up with before starting to work with citizens?

* Will you do citizen science projects again? What would you change in your approach now?

-> **What is a potential of citizen science for the European research? What would be your advice for the researchers who plan to start a citizen science project? Which competencies would you advise to develop or team up with before starting to work with citizens?**

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