Scent has developed training presentations for local authorities explaining how to use Scent Campaign Manager to organise a Scent campaign and the Scent Toolbox apps to collect and manage important environmental data. The presentations were tested with agencies responsible for the environment, water management and civil protection, including the Environmental Agency of Tulcea and Flood Defence Emergy Office in Romania, and the Minitry of the Environment and directorate responsible for civil protection and development planning in the Region of Attica, Greece. 

Download the presentations here including:

• General presentation of the Scent project

• Modelling in the case study area

• Campaigns of data collection

• Scent Campaign Manager

• Scent Explore

Scent has developed training presentations for local authorities explaining how to use Scent Campaign Manager to organise a Scent campaign and the Scent Toolbox apps to collect and manage important environmental data. The presentations were tested with agencies responsible for the environment, water management and civil protection, including the Environmental Agency of Tulcea and Flood Defence Emergy Office in Romania, and the Minitry of the Environment and directorate responsible for civil protection and development planning in the Region of Attica, Greece. 

Download the presentations here including:

• General presentation of the Scent project

• Modelling in the case study area

• Campaigns of data collection

• Scent Campaign Manager

• Scent Explore

The Scent Cookbook was developed as a guide for organising your own Scent citizen science campaign. Based on the findings and experience from the Scent pilot campaigns organised in Romania and Greece, the Cookbook provides guidance on issues covering recruiting volunteers, planning logistics, setting up the Scent Toolbox and utilising the data. The Cookbook will be made available soon. 

ScentVR (Scent VR Training) is the winning app developed by Riccardo Bandera of Curtel Games during the SCENT Appathon to help citizens and environmental users to master their technique of capturing data using Scent Explore. ScentVR is a virtual reality mobile app providing a test suite consisting of three scenarios, through which a user can practice their technique in capturing videos. The application checks if the user is following all the data collection guidelines, corrects them when they are not, and provides them with informative messages to improve technique. 

Download ScentVR for android here. 

The resources above have been especially developed to help all types of users organise a campaign and collect crowdsourced data. Scent has also produced a number of other resources which support the Scent Training Programme, and are also valuable resources for people interested in organising their own citizen science initiative. 

• Scent has published scientific publications in academic journals reporting the technical breakthroughs and results of the Scent project. Read the publications here. 
• In cooperation with its sister projects LandSense, GroundTruth 2.0, GROW Observatory and WeObserve, Scent has produced a policy brief entitled ‘Citizen Observatories: A voice for citizens in environmental monitoring’ providing recommendations for policymakers for supporting citizen science invitiatves. Click here to read the policy brief. 
• Scent has created an Education Programme targeting school children between the ages of 11 and 12 to educate them about the importance of citizen science and environmental monitoring in their local environment through a dynamic lesson plan. Download the teacher’s guide and lesson plans here.