Via our virtual co-learning center, citizens will become experts on soil quality and fertility and are empowered to improve soil quality. Workshops will teach citizens how to make observations, test soil, interpret results and draw conclusions.

Citizen science is a collaboration between scientists and volunteers or ‘citizens’ where individuals or communities get involved in scientific activities such as data collection and monitoring programmes, generating new knowledge or understanding to achieve a real scientific outcome.

Both professional and citizen scientists benefit from taking part. These benefits include increased research outputs, learning opportunities, personal development, increased sense of belonging, satisfaction from contribution to science, and addressing local, national, and international issues.