Citizen science in the making: mapping participatory science projects in Hungary

This article concludes that YouCount, as one of the 7 social science projects out of 28 citizen science projects in Hungary, goes beyond the level of passive, minimal involvement, where volunteers can meaningfully participate in the research process and bring about changes in their environment and communities. Local case studies of the projects Community Archaeology, Citizen Science Mentoring, Creek Rákos citizen science project, Life in undies, PET bottles spotting, Air working group, and YouCount are succeeding in involving certain communities in the research process in ways in which participants could contribute to framing the research questions, creative research outputs as well as publications or dissemination of research results.  

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