Citizens with Rats From citizen science toward non-anthropocentric education with young people and difficult urban companions (CitiRats)

Description of the granted funding

CitiRats combines natural sciences and education in a project with young people. The main objective is to study and to develop arts of attentiveness towards multispecies communities and for imagining multispecies futures while rethinking exclusive human agency in society and in education. This is needed because the problems of sustainable co-living are part of young people's everyday lives here and now. Education is, however, said to be among the slowest of disciplines to address these concerns. CitiRats produces new knowledge and solutions with a state-of-the-art three-tier approach, based on collaboration between researchers, young people (ages 13-15) and selected experts. The research design comprises three progressive research stages with methods from natural sciences, human sciences and the arts. This produces new knowledge of urban communities as shared between many species, as well as knowledge about how young people best come to learn about sustainable co-living.
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Starting year

2020

End year

2024

Granted funding

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480 000 €

Funder

Research Council of Finland

Funding instrument

Academy projects

Other information

Funding decision number

333438

Fields of science

Educational sciences

Research fields

Kasvatustieteet

Themes

Nuori tutkijasukupolvi 2019

Identified topics

education