Our Vision:
To shape the future of education, work, leisure, and democracy through public engagement in participatory sciences.
Citizen science and other approaches to participatory sciences can enrich student life while increasing research, discovery, and innovation. The Citizen Science Campus program embeds participatory science opportunities in campus life and makes the campus an incubator for new projects. It aims to simultaneously increase the research capacity of the university and enhance the undergraduate experience.
The mission of the Citizen Science Campus to amplify participatory forms of research, learning, leisure, and solutions. The Citizen Science Campus will guide reciprocal and sustained public collaborations in research to meet everyday challenges, big or small, global or local, using high-, low-, or no-tech tools, through interdisciplinary advances in participatory sciences. The Citizen Science Campus aims to improve the quality of life for students, staff, alumni, North Carolinians and beyond, by channeling their full potential into collective discovery.