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Registration for participation opened

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Leiden, 22 February 2013 Project iSPEX has officially started – registration for participation opened AT THE MOMENT THIS PROJECT IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE NETHERLANDS. PARTICIPATION OUTSIDE THE NETHERLANDS IS NOT POSSIBLE Click here to participate in the iSPEX project! Registration for the large citizen science-project iSPEX, “Measure aerosols with your smartphone” is opened. As of… Read more »

iSPEX in the Volkskrant

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On Februari 17, the Dutch national newspaper Volkskrant, published an article on citizen science with iSPEX as an example. The article has the title: A growing army of amatures helps with scientific research

Interview on iSPEX in Trouw

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https://twitter.com/HesterVolten/status/302375571176955904 Dutch national newspaper Trouw interviewed Hester Volten, member of the iSPEX team about our citizen science project.  

Rotterdam excited about iSPEX

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dichtbij.nl, the website that bring local news, published an article on the iSPEX project. It also states that enrolling in the project can also be done via milieucentrum rotterdam.

iSPEX on the cover of NTvN

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The Februari edition of the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Natuurkunde (Dutch Magazine of Physics, NTvN) placed iSPEX on their cover and published an interview with Frans Snik about iSPEX. Read more on the NTvN website.

Eureka! explains iSPEX

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The 39th edition of the monthly magazine of student organization de Leidsche Flesch and the Faculty of Science of Leiden University has an extensive article on iSPEX at page 13. The article is written by Ritse Heinsbroek, a member of the iSPEX-team and a student at the Faculty of Science. Here, you can download the… Read more »

iSPEX in innovation route of NOT fair

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During the Dutch Education Exhibition (NOT) 2013, iSPEX was presented on the innovation route. On this route, new developments in education were presented.

iSPEX-blog on astronomie.nl

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Since the launch of the renewed website of NOVA on October 31, the iSPEX project keeps it’s own weblog there. This (Dutch only) blog will be used by different members of the iSPEX-team as an extra channel to keep the public posted on the whereabouts of the Netherlands greatest citizen science project.

More than 1000 pre-subscriptions

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Currently, we have received more than 1000 pre-subscriptions for an iSPEX add-on. The map of the Netherlands is already filled with oncoming participants of the iSPEX-project, but also more and more countries and continents are being represented.