Recommendation for citizen science

The purpose of this recommendation is to provide research organisations and their funders as well as other organisations operating in the interface of the civil society with principles and guidelines for promoting citizen science. The recommendation provides answers to questions on how to make citizen science projects more appealing to researchers and how citizen science methods give researchers recognition and merits. The recommendation concerns specific issues in citizen science and provides ways of establishing citizen science as an equal scientific method with other scientific methods in use. The aim of this recommendation is to provide a basis for ensuring the quality of citizen science research in the Finnish scientific community.