Since 2005, the Czech Academy of Sciences has been opening up science to high school students, teachers, science popularizers and the public through an internship and science popularization project called “Otevřená věda”. More detailed information can be found on the website of this project.
“Open engagement of societal actors refers to extended collaboration between scientists and societal actors beyond the scientific community, by opening up practices and tools that are part of the research cycle and by making the scientific process more inclusive and accessible to the broader inquiring society based on new forms of collaboration and work such as crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and scientific volunteering….”
