MOSAIC

The main question of the project is: how can open science, through a better integration of data and participatory sciences, empower citizens to understand the health and well-being consequences of ecosystem change and degradation and to address these consequences through adaptation and mitigation actions? 
Our proposal builds on the following hypothesis:
given that active community participation at each stage of the data cycle, from data collection to information and message dissemination, is implemented; and that all stakeholders (including local communities) share values associated with the data and knowledge production, dissemination and use (in terms of fair "retribution", integrity, ethics, FAIR principles, and autonomy), within the limits of the law; then, locally-exposed populations are best suited to interpret and exploit complex and multi-thematic information about their surroundings to identify and understand the impacts of environmental changes and degradation on their health and well-being and to develop locally feasible, acceptable, and sustainable adaptation and mitigation solutions.