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                                     What has this international collaboration achieved for your project?    How did you subdivide the workload? Was it organic or leader-based? Working groups were both organic and leader based - we tried to make create a subtle leadership. Working groups need to have a lead. We tried both ways and giving a bit more leadership in this setting works well. Especially with a complex work structure (team members distributed all over Europe, mostly virtual communication) structure is needed.    What has the citizen science part achieved? How was the turnout? (You don't need to give results if you don't want to, but a ballpark idea of participation would be interesting. Don't answer this section if you don't want to). A citizen survey to assess ho...

Dear all, as you may have seen in the previous and next posts, an entirely ECR Project call UrbanAlgae was funded by EFFS. The next call for this kind of projects has just started. Freshproject 3.0 call is open for proposals  until 15.2 . http://www.freshwatersciences.eu/effs/index.asp?page=NEWS&Id=6&IdItem=242&p=#Content Good luck! EFFS - freshwatersciences.eu We invite proposals for a project to be supported by the European Federation of Freshwater Sciences (EFFS).The call has been developed as a joint effort of the EFFS board and the EFFS Federated Societies, and the European Fresh and Young Researchers (EFYR) and representatives of the Fresh Blood for Fresh Water (FBFW) meetings. It has the primary goals of: a) encouraging early career freshwater ... www.freshwatersciences.eu

The Urban Algae PI Team: Susanne Stephan, Cleo N. Stratmann, Sonia Herrero Ortega and Mandy Velthuis (in the tablet) What have you learned so far from collaboration and how has the networking helped you?   W hat setbacks have you encountered and how did you/are you planning to get over them? Over the course of the project, we have encountered only a few setbacks. Working in such a big consortium can be a challenge and communication is very important. Finding a common medium for communication and working was the first obstacle and in the end we have found a way, by asking the members, trying things and improving them continuously. We can say that the time delay for the release of the citizen survey was a major set back. We underestimated the time needed to build the question structure and determine the right questions, to get answers that can be used scientifically. Again, working in a virtual workspace and with many different people is an aspect that needs to be consid...