The vision of the Citizen Science Campus is to shape the future of education, work, leisure, and democracy through public engagement in participatory sciences. 

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.

Want to Know More about Citizen Science?

Check out Caren Cooper’s TEDx talk “Citizen Science, Everybody Counts,” for a vision of the power ordinary people contribute to science and solving community problems.