Dr. Raquel Ajates Gonzalez | COST Action CA15212

Personal Information

Title:

Dr.

First Name:

Raquel

Last Name:

Ajates Gonzalez

Institution:

University of Dundee

DJCAD / Project: GROW Citizens' Observatory

Nethergate

Dundee

DD1 4HN

United Kingdom

Area of Expertise:

Food and farming policy; defining sustainable diets and translating them into policy; the politics of evidence-based policy making processes; sustainable and alternative food systems; food and farming cooperatives; agroecology; citizen observatories; citizen science; online learning.

Gender:

Female

Working Groups

WG2: Develop synergies with education

This group will focus on the learning outcomes of CS projects. The objective of this WG is to increase awareness about the possibilities of CS in education, by collating the knowledge of current practices and underscoring the meaning of CS in formal and informal education.

WG3: Improve society-science-policy interface

The working group will focus on the outcomes of CS projects for policy makers at local, national, and European level concerned with policies impacting the environment and society. The objective of this WG is to make government officials and decision makers aware of CS by providing evidence and guidance material, so that they can use it as part of policy formation, implementation and evaluation.

WG4: Enhance the role of CS for civil society

WG4 focuses on issues that are relevant to the volunteers in citizen science. The objectives of this working group are to raise awareness of the volunteers’ aims, needs and requirements from citizen science and the results that citizen science contributions have in their lives, as well as the implications for developing social innovation interventions. Due to the complexity and the importance of this WG there are several themes that currently we use to promote collaboration, exchange and share of knowledge within this COST action.