Description:

Citizen sciences are scientific activities in which non-professional scientists are volunteer to participate not only in data collection, analysis and dissemination but, at a more upper level in project goals definition and implementation .   Despite their growing popularity in many disciplines, several challenges relating to their use remain. Among them Data risk — Quality of the knowledge produced (loss of objectivity or scientific rigor) ; data produced urgently; bias in the data. What is the state of the art in the weather domain ? How citizen can be mobilized to improve data quality and at the project's end contribute to more valuable and accurate scientific results.