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The activity Citizen Science Contest is finalized with the awards of the competition ‘Challenges from Cadiz to the World’ at the International Welcome Center of the University of Cadiz, with the presidency of the vice-rectors of Digitalization and Infrastructures and Internationalization of the UCA, Carlos Rioja and Rafael Jiménez. The winners of this first edition are: Ana Amelia Franco del Pino (Challenge 1), Miguel de Jesús Cuesta Rodríguez (Challenge 2) and José Antonio López Marín (Challenge 3 and Creativity and Efficiency Award).

In this competition, participants had to provide a solution to the three challenges proposed by the organisers in video format and with a maximum duration of 1 minute.

The general objectives were: to promote citizen science, to support the transfer of popular knowledge; to create synergies between different sectors of the population to solve the same problem, as well as to increase the impact and dissemination of the lines of research and knowledge transfer carried out at the UCA, to favour the generation and dissemination of knowledge in innovative and creative formats and to promote critical thinking, encourage public participation and the feeling of belonging of the population in the face of local problems with global effects.

The main evaluation criteria were the originality of the video, scientific rigour, equality and inclusion, the ability to disseminate information and the creativity of the couple. The evaluation committee was equally represented by citizen voting, UCA community voting and the committee of experts organising the activity.

Here you more information about this activity: https://researcheu.sea-eu.org/citizen-science-contest/