Cross Academia and Public Citizen Engagement for Developing Active Citizenship Competences

Kai Pata and Külli Kori
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(https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-057-009)

Abstract

This paper explored the effect of the different open cross-university and public knowledge building activities on participants’ active citizenship competencies. A survey was conducted with the participants from 7 activities in higher education context in the INOS project. The results report that active citizenship competences could be better developed in cross-academia and public citizen engagement activities that target collaborative knowledge building and data management rather than in more individual crowdsourcing activities. The results indicate that the politico-legal competencies were the most difficult to develop through different activities and they require more specific design concerns in the future citizen science activities.

Keywords: Active citizenship competencies, cross-academia, citizen engagement.

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