Projects

As citizen Science expert, PULSAQUA is involved the project Cities to Nature: Sustainable Green Roofs. At the third edition of the symposium day, PULSAQUA orginized a workshop on citizen science and how this could be implemented in a green roof project. Go to Project website In April 2025, PULSAQUA lead a session on citizen science […]

PULSAQUA is leading the “Empowered Inhabitants, Communities, and Citizen Science” work package as part of the European Union’s Horizon Europe-funded DANUBE4all project. This collaborative initiative involves over 30 partners working together to restore ecosystems in and around the Danube River. Within this work package, PULSAQUA a…

To provide citizens with the knowledge  to start their own monitoring project, PULSAQUA launched the platform The Science Citizens. On this platform, you will find free materials like a free e-book and a podcast. In addition,  it offers courses designed to help deal with specific challenges and questions about their own monitoring initiat…

As part of the LIFE program, PULSAQUA partnered with the municipality Dordrecht and the locals of Wielwijk, a neighborhood in  Dordrecht. They developed a citizen science program to monitor the effects of climate adaptive changes in the nearby parks. Pulsaqua helped build the community, develop the methods and organize events. For example, in the q…

PULSAQUA supports the Drinkable Rivers Foundation in advancing its Citizen Science Programme. Our services include designing, maintaining, and enhancing the measurement kit, providing guidance on community and data management, and assisting with the overall coordination of events. Drinkable Rivers works towards a world with drinkable rivers. By eng…

As a partner of Waterlab, a platform for Citizen Science water research, PULSAQUA plays a key role in coordinating, communicating, and engaging citizens for the Delft Measures project. This initiative aims to expand the network of weather stations, enabling measurements to be collected across every square kilometer of Delft. The WaterLab (PULSAQUA,…

As a partner of Waterlab, PULSAQUA has played a key role in leading and organizing the Spot the Hotspot project, where together with 507 citizen scientist, the macro- and micro plastics in the water in Delfland. In the water authority district of Delfland this data is used to assess whether changes can be made to […]

PULSAQUA coordinated the 2023 and 2024 editions of Alle Scholen Verzamelen (All Schools Unite), a program in which schools across the Netherlands participate in and contribute to real research projects from Dutch universities. Each year, the project highlights a new research topic. In 2023, the theme was “Microplastics in Your Clothing”…

PULSAQUA finalized its report about the Shoreliner, a system that is aimed at removing plastics out of rivers. Knowledge about the Shoreliner was fragmented among different actors and the amount of plastic waste that was actually was limited. PULSAQUA gathered and synthesized the available data from the different actors, identified the needed knowl…

This summer PULSAQUA joined the Vliet Clean (S)up to test two citizen science Microplastic monitoring methods for fresh surface waters. The methods can be used to take samples in for example canals, rivers, and lakes, while on a SUP (Stand Up Paddling). We build the trawls (both DIY version and the robust and more reliable […]

PULSAQUA volunteered to be part of the UNESCO IHP-IX Task Force, in Paris in 2019 and 2020. Here, we helped develop the IHP IX Strategy for the years 2022 to 2030. Partners Go to project website

For the Technical University of Delft, PULSAQUA developed a citizen science introduction module within the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) ‘Open Science: Sharing your research with the world‘. Since it is an open course, anyone can join and follow the course via EdX. Students that followed the course in 2021, massively voted for …

The municipality Rotterdam has requested us to make an inventory of all the possible scenario’s and roads Rotterdam can take to implement citizen science activities to help reach the Water and Climate Adaptation goals of Rotterdam. The city launched the so-called Rotterdams Weerwoord some years ago to battle the consequences of climate change…

Schools and Satellites (SaS) aims to better quantify and understand precipitation patterns in Ghana, West Africa. Understanding precipitation patterns is critical for water management anywhere. In West Africa, rain gauges are few and far between. Imagery from satellites like remote sensing data can be used to estimate precipitation and present a po…

As part of the Citizen Science Platform WaterLab, we researched and mapped the existing citizen science initiatives that monitor plastic waste in the Dutch delta. We have performed several studies together with students from the TU Delft on system analysis and have mapped the actor and initiative environment, in order to advise Rijkswaterstaat with…

WaterWalks aims to raise awareness of the rapidly changing water environment of the world we live in. They invite everyone to join in creating a visual map of our rivers and waterways with photos, videos, water quality measurements, sounds, stories and comments. Artists, ecologists, school children, art historians, urban planners or everyone who en…