Thursday — 6 Nov 2025
08:30 –
09:00
09:00
Registration
Check-in with Coffee & Pastries
09:15 –
09:30
09:30
General Intro to the conference / logistics
Short welcome and practical information for participants.
09:30 –
10:00
10:00
Welcome addresses
Official welcome by UZH VP for Research Prof. Elisabeth Stark and ETH Zurich VP for Research Prof. Annette Oxenius.
10:00 –
10:45
10:45
Keynote Presentations
Keynote Speaker: Pietro Michelucci
10:45 –
11:05
11:05
Coffee Break
11:15 –
12:30
12:30
Poster Pitches
12:30 –
13:45
13:45
Lunch Break and Poster Walk
13:45 –
14:30
14:30
Keynote Presentation
Keynote Speaker: Igor Grabovac
14:40 –
16:20
16:20
Parallel sessions 1
Room A: Experience Rooms
Participatory Cancer Research: Solving real-life challenges
Lara Arth and Christiane Grill
The paradox of reciprocity in participatory action research
Lieke Dalstra and Nikki Jepkema (access restricted to 15 people - first come, first served)
Room B: Experience Rooms
CoAct for Mental Health: Community governance and participatory dynamics in a citizen social science project
Josep Perelló
Rewriting research with patients: A case of PPIE impact on science
Maëlle Achard
Room C: Oral
CIRCULATE: Citizen Science and Social Innovation to Address Tyre Wear Additives Pollution
Celia Santos-Tapia
Developing the Big Food Map App Through Participatory Design
Jonathan Benhaiem
Inclusive Citizen Science as a tool for empowerment in the Peace of Mind Youth Wellbeing Intervention
Jessica Carr
Co-creating the Dutch ADHD Science Platform
Jeanette Mostert
Citizen science in the co-creation of health materials
Sílvia Silva
Room D: Oral
MISTRAL: Co-Creating AI-Enabled Policy Tools for Urban Health Impact Assessment
Ilaria Bortone
From personal data to collective impact: Bridging communities through citizen participation in health data governance
Cato van Schyndel
Interpreting Microbiomes Together: AI-Assisted Feedback in a Co-Designed Pan-European Citizen Science Project
Annina Meyer
Disability inclusion in One Health Citizen Science (OHCS): experience from Sardinia (Italy)
Liliana Cori
Perspectives on scalability of Citizen Science for snail mapping in schistosomiasis research
Lies Jacobs
16:20 –
16:50
16:50
Coffee Break and Poster Walk
16:50 –
18:00
18:00
Parallel sessions 2
Room A: Experience Rooms
Bridging the gap: Enhancing citizen science approaches in health intervention design
Martijn Bakker and Rhoda Schuling
When collaboration challenges the research: responding to citizen input
Maëlle Achard and Nadia Elia
Room B: Experience Rooms
Citizen Science, Citizen Ethics
Kirsten Bevelander and Annemarie Wageningen
Urban heat in public spaces: how the neighbors’ engagement as co-researchers bridges public health and citizen science
Isabelle Bonhoure & Josep Perelló
Room C: Oral
Obstetric Coevolution: Coevolving obstetric practices to improve the childbirth experience
Irene Lapuente Aguilar
Empowering Public Health through Community Science: Meet the New York City Virus Hunters
Christine Marizzi
Systemic drivers of (un)healthy diets in a lower-income Dutch neighborhood: A participatory approach
Sanne Djojosoeparto
Patient Partnership for Prevention (PPP): Co-Designing Solutions to Prevent Non-Ventilator Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
Aleksandra Szewc and Marine Lachaud
Room D: Oral
Assessing the impact of citizen science activities on pupils: experiences from the InChildHealth project
Teresa Schäfer
Citizen Science Approach to Developing a Discrete Choice Experiment with People with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Maurits Lusseveld
Systemic drivers of food-related inequalities - a citizen and key-stakeholder perspective. Results from the Group Model Building sessions in Poland
Piotr Romaniuk
Personal science to support selfcare
Martijn de Groot
18:30 –
22:00
22:00