Citizen science projects at the Stabi

Open Science aims to make scientific processes and research results accessible to everyone and to promote a more open, transparent, and participatory scientific culture.

The Stabi has been active in the field of Citizen Science projects for some time. We invite citizens to actively participate in scientific research projects and provide the framework for doing so. As a team of volunteers, librarians, and citizen scientists, we want to work together: for example, in collecting and providing data, as well as analyzing and interpreting it. In this way, citizens can play an active role in generating knowledge.

Book Book

„Citizen Science encompasses the active participation of citizens in various phases of the research process (…). Participation ranges from generating research questions and developing a project, to data collection and scientific analysis, and even to communicating research results.“

Grünbuch Citizen Science Strategie 2020 für Deutschland / A. Bonn (et al.),  Berlin: Projekt “Bürger schaffen Wissen – Wissen schafft Bürger” (GEWISS) 2016, p. 13 (URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20160621985) (our own translation).

Current Project

Following various projects—for example, on making women more visible through the study of handwritten testimonies from the women’s movement or collecting and deciphering family memories from the end of the war in 1945, the current project is devoted to the theme of ‘Italy in Berlin’.

Further information can be found on our website.

Projects

Volunteers

Dr. Ellen Böhm

Marina Gordienko

Kathrin Kühl

Petra Nowak-Feddersen

Irina Petrowski

Matthia Zielke

... and other volunteers

Interested?

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Contact

Dr. Ulrike Reuter

Research Services: Citizen Science Projects
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Prussian Cultural Heritage
Potsdamer Straße 33
10785 Berlin
+49 30 266 433 151
ulrike.reuter@sbb.spk-berlin.de