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Citizen scientists can play a crucial role in advancing new knowledge. Volunteers in citizen science projects can contribute to a better understanding of a specific area of science and to monitoring compliance of laws and regulations – but who are citizen scientists? This report responds to this very question in a EU Horizon 2020 'Science with and for Society' (SwafS) project, CSI-COP, funded under the grant call SwafS 15-2019. CSI-COP engaged citizen scientists with the objective of investigating compliance of the general data protection regulation (GDPR) specifically with respect to transparency and informed consent around cookies and tracking technologies in websites and apps. In previous citizen science projects, the volunteers were found to be mostly middle-aged white men. In CSI-COP the consortium partners adopted an inclusive and diverse approach to engaging the general public, especially since the Internet has a very broad usage. In this report we present numbers and statistics of the men and women, their age-ranges, geographical location (urban vs rural), and some information on their socio-economic status (working, student, etc.) who volunteered as citizen scientists in CSI-COP project., Complying with the GDPR was paramount in the CSI-COP project, all data presented in this report is anonymised and cannot identify any natural person.

This deliverable explains CSI-COP project’s dissemination, communication and exploitation strategies to maximise awareness of the extent of online tracking and to informally educate the general public about how they can better protect their personal data and privacy online. They will also engage stakeholders in a drive to move towards improved compliance of the GDPR and shift the Internet back to a no-surveillance experience. All CSI-COP partners will contribute to the elaboration of these plans and their implementation. Partners will be responsible for the translation of materials from English into their country’s principal language where and when this is required: for example, press releases, project flyers and other communication materials. Partners will collaborate in frequent conference calls to discuss progress in implementation of the project’s dissemination, communication and exploitation plans.

This document provides the framework for the optimum method of applying ECSA’s (European Citizen Science Association) ten principles of citizen science engagement for quality assurance in ethical and inclusive citizen science engagement in the CSI-COP project for the purposes of investigating the extent of online tracking. Following a dynamic recruitment drive, a diverse community of citizen scientists will gain new knowledge and practical skills through informal education provided in workshops and a MOOC (massive open online course). The expertise gained will provide an impetus to join the CSI-COP project collaborating with researchers investigating compliance of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on websites and in apps. A series of activities, validating the outcomes of CSI-COP’s citizen scientists, will be essential to ensure the accuracy of the exploration and findings of cookies embedded in websites and in mobile device apps, A supplement (dataset) to this document will be uploaded as an excel spreadsheet listing organisations CSI-COP will approach to engage citizen scientists with the project.