Networking
ENFORCE actively liaises with European projects and initiatives that share common interests. Through these collaborations, we exchange knowledge, foster collaboration, strengthen communication efforts, and create opportunities for greater impact across our networks.
The AgroTech Hub Cluster is a collaborative initiative bringing together EU-funded projects working at the intersection of agriculture, technology, and environmental monitoring. The cluster aims to foster knowledge exchange, identify synergies, and promote joint activities among the following projects: NOSTRADAMUS, AGRARIAN, OpenAgri, LANDSHIFT, EARTHONE, ENFORCE, Climate Farm Demo, AgRimate, MONALISA, NEMESIS, and TERRASAFE
ENHANCE is dedicated to protecting and restoring vulnerable coastal ecosystems through innovative, sustainable solutions. By integrating the One Health approach with AI technologies, satellite Copernicus’ observations and Citizen Science data services, they aim to empower stakeholders with dynamic tools and insights, supporting policymakers and businesses in crafting resilient strategies for coastal management.
MI-TRAP is a European research project investigating how transport emissions affect urban air quality and human health. It combines advanced monitoring technologies, data analysis, and citizen science to better detect pollutants such as ultrafine particles and black carbon. Through pilot activities in ten European cities, the project aims to support more effective policies and solutions for cleaner urban air.
The ICT4Water cluster is a hub for EU-funded research and innovation projects on ICT applied to water management. The cluster facilitates knowledge exchange and collaboration between the projects, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders. Currently, around 90 projects are members of the cluster.
More4Nature is focused on citizen science that aims to bring about transformative change in environmental protection by including citizens and communities as key actors in collaborative environmental compliance assurance.
The ANERIS project aims to tackle the rapid loss of ocean biodiversity by developing innovative tools and technology for monitoring, research and management of marine life, and introducing the concept of Operational Marine Biology (OMB). OMB is a biodiversity information system which allows long-term routine measurements of ocean and coastal ecosystems and their quick interpretation and dissemination to all relevant stakeholders.
CS-MACH1 is a Horizon Europe project creating a network for citizen science initiatives, cost-efficient technology providers, data management experts, and training material to facilitate FAIR data flows, empowering citizens to monitor and contribute to marine science through data platforms. Inspired by the speed of sound (Mach 1), CS-MACH1 is the fastest multidisciplinary approach for marine citizen science to collaboratively reach a wide impact via data uptake, creating the marine data oriented hub needed to bring citizen science closer to its full potential.
CaSTCo (the Catchment Systems Thinking Cooperative) brings together more than 30 organisations to co-develop a shared framework, principles, and tools for collaborative monitoring, all backed by real-world testing by catchment collaboratives. By aligning citizen science with professional expertise, CaSTCo is helping communities and decision-makers turn trusted data into healthier rivers.
SAGE (the Data Space for a Sustainable Green Europe) is a Digital Europe co-funded project that is developing a federated, secure, and interoperable data space to support key pillars of the European Green Deal – biodiversity, climate adaptation, circular economy, and zero pollution. The project builds directly upon the GDDS GREATproject community and results.
Urban ReLeaf is a four-year Horizon Europe project working with six European pilot cities to integrate citizen-generated observations into official urban data systems and decision-making. Through co-designed citizen-science campaigns, it collects and combines local data on urban trees and greenspace, air quality, heat stress and residents’ perceptions with Earth observation and municipal datasets, while developing tools, quality-assurance procedures and governance models for inclusive, evidence-based urban planning. Although Urban ReLeaf is not primarily an environmental compliance or enforcement project, its approach is directly relevant to compliance monitoring: validated citizen observations and low-cost sensor data could complement statutory monitoring networks, identify local pollution or environmental-management problems, reveal spatial gaps that official stations may miss, and help authorities assess progress against urban greening, air-quality, climate-adaptation and nature-restoration commitments. Its particular contribution is therefore to demonstrate how community-generated evidence can be made sufficiently reliable, interoperable and institutionally embedded to support regulatory reporting, early detection and prioritization of official inspections—while remaining supplementary to, rather than replacing, legally prescribed monitoring.
Bridge2Health is an initiative that prioritizes citizen science in the health and wellness sector. The program brings together researchers from various universities of applied sciences and focuses on actively involving citizens in the development of new health innovations.
CARMINE co-develops a knowledge-based framework to address climate adaptation and mitigation in 8 metropolitan regions of Europe, bridging the gap between science and practice and co-creating actionable tools, products and services that enhance climate resilience at the local level and support decision-making at European level.
SPOON is an EU-funded project connecting citizens, researchers, industries, civil society organisations, and policymakers to co-create a fairer, healthier, and more sustainable food future. SPOON puts people at the heart of food system transformation. The vision comes to life through three key innovation streams: citizen science labs, behaviour change interventions and a digital toolset.
ScienceUs is a three year European project that aims to create an EU-wide network of interconnected citizen science projects. A combined support program of direct funding and support services will be provided to a group of high-potential citizen science initiatives. A strong set of communication, dissemination, and knowledge transfer activities will be implemented to engage all actors in the quadruple helix around the citizen science networks.
The Cross-sectoral Framework for Socio-Economic Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Events in Europe (CROSSEU) is a European Union-funded project under the Horizon Europe program, running from 2024 to 2026, that addresses the pressing challenges posed by climate change. Our objective is to equip stakeholders with the necessary tools and insights to make well-informed decisions, adapt to climate risks, and reduce their impacts.
RIECS-Concept will conceptualise the European Research Infrastructure for Excellence in Citizen Science. This will integrate citizens’ resources, such as mobile phones and computers, with existing scientific platforms and data collections. It will offer transversal services, improving accessibility across research communities.
