The PLACES - Platform for collaborative engagement on societal issues - project is a research and innovation device that will make it possible to analyse citizen science practices and develop a technical service to support them. The objective of PLACES is to propose a solution to the low societal impact of research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. PLACES is a comprehensive system for citizen science observation, which will not only make collaborative research carried out jointly by research teams and other socio-economic actors possible, but will also allow the study of their impact on society and research practices. PLACES will offer concrete technical support to citizen science while exploring diverse and joint professional practices through pilot research. Based on these collaborative researches, PLACES will study, in a comprehensive approach, the effective conditions for carrying out citizen science. The PLACES platform is based on three distinct services: community management and linking professionals (matching service); access to funding sources (international call for proposals database, international network of funders, crowdfunding tool); collaborative project management (management of user rights and profiles, connection to databases and data repositories, interoperability with other work environments, collaboration tools - including discussion and sharing - on text and multimedia data). Fully integrated into the Open Science paradigm, the system implemented by PLACES will make it possible to analyze the impact of citizen science, explore new forms of scientific communication, and reflect on the ethical and legal issues related to the publication and availability of research data according to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable). Finally, PLACES will promote the transfer of knowledge and know-how between researchers and other socio-economic actors.

BECOME will use UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs) as model systems to understand how to manage synergies and trade-offs between conservation objectives and human development, through pluralistic and inclusive landscape-scale approaches to conservation. BECOME will take an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach, combining diverse methodologies for evaluating effectiveness of BR management in supporting conservation and biocultural diversity. BECOME will harness existing data resources and infrastructure, including longitudinal governance and biodiversity data, to analyze BR effectiveness across temporal and spatial scales. The project will contribute to the implementation of global and national policy frameworks towards the conservation of biological diversity by generating actionable knowledge. The research design will specifically account for priority areas of the new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity. BECOME is uniquely positioned to perform much-needed longitudinal research on BR effectiveness across different metrics. BECOME will go beyond evaluating BR effectiveness through actors' self-evaluations, to help reduce bias and develop common methods to facilitate both compliance monitoring and adaptive management learning outcomes. BECOME will use existing data infrastructure to analyze changing trends in over 100 BRs worldwide whose management approaches have been followed for over 10 years, to understand changes in effectiveness. We will then harness big-data approaches to understand changes in land-use and modeled biodiversity change. The long-term monitoring of ecological and social variables performed in BECOME will help provide rare longitudinal trends related to social-ecological change and effectiveness of BRs. We will investigate the effectiveness of the zonation system as a combined “land-sharing” and “land-sparing” approach, to understand how this system supports biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of landscape resources. In addition to longitudinal studies supported by governance and big-data infrastructure, we will use case studies to take a mixed-methods approach to evaluate management and context-dependent meanings and measures of BR success, both present and future. BECOME will explore the potential of combining intergenerational practice with participatory scenario planning, collaborating with BR stakeholders to explore desired futures in BRs which work for biodiversity and people. BECOME will work with stakeholders to capture and develop context-dependent but generalizable metrics which are adapted to BR objectives, facilitate the adaptive co-management learning feedback loop, and reflect synergies between conservation and development objectives. By evaluating both process and outcomes of BR implementation, BECOME will help to capture the complexity of social-ecological phenomena while encouraging learning through participatory transdisciplinary processes.

The DISPOSED-H project is dedicated to the scientific data of the Humanities and Social Sciences. It aims to give visibility to SSH resources and data at European and international level by providing a dedicated multilingual services platform. It responds to a need due to the great disparity of journals and locations of data in SHS that make them difficult to reuse, to share and to spread. It also helps to internationalize the scientific output of researchers, who often remain in a national configuration. The DISPOSED-H project aims to respond to these pitfalls by relying heavily on the ISIDORE tool, and in particular its Isidore on demand service developed by the Huma-Num TGIR. This SSH-specific search engine builds on the principles of the web of data and makes it easy to find resources while giving authors the ability to enrich their own metadata. The DISPOSED-H project is not intended to provide an alternative to scientific publishing in SSH. It marks the transition to Open Science by offering a multilingual environment and a strong commitment to Open Access. This objective justifies the choice of the INFRAEOSC call since it is then necessary to integrate the discovery platform resulting from the work of the DISPOSED-H consortium at EOSC. In doing so, the work and data of researchers in SHS will be visible both by their peers, but also by civil society (citizens, public institutions, companies). One of the contributions of this platform will be for example to link scientific productions with concrete achievements, reading recommendations, help with documentary research. The DISPOSED-H project will feed the future OPERAS infrastructure, which aims to engage in open scientific communication in SSH. The network is mostly built from the OPERAS consortium, but not only. The multidisciplinary dimension is evident here since it concerns all the sciences that we are accustomed to bringing together under the heading "human and social sciences". The activities of the partners offer a spectrum of possibilities large enough to meet the requirements of the call but also to develop a European environment open to the services of scientific publications in SSH. To do this, the network is structured around three types of partners: a first circle that will provide specific services related to the uses and visibility of scientific data, a second to organize the platform for integration into the EOSC, to work on its design in particular according to the different target audiences, and finally a third devoted to the issues of multilingualism, both for the platform itself and to work towards the alignment of the standards in most European languages for the ISIDORE service. The network is designed on the one hand to prepare the main issues related to the creation of the platform, such as the harmonization of standards, integration into the EOSC, possible uses for civil society and on the other hand to strengthen collaborations and exchanges between partners so that everyone has the autonomy and ease necessary to fulfill their commitments and rely on members. The DISPOSED-H project also meets the European performance criteria by the potential for innovation it brings insofar as it contributes to the structuring of the field of SHS and where it aims to promote the appropriation of the results of research by all kinds of audiences. Finally, it relies on national and European infrastructures that are already recognized in Europe and have experience in both European projects and the development of digital tools.