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As a working mom, it's always a challenge to find things that are "cool" enough for the kids but also educational. The SPOTTERON apps are a blessing as they provide both. I can leave the kids outside for hours to explore the spiders in the garden instead of playing computer games all day - and they love it! It's a win-win!

Anne from SpiderSpotter

Being a farmer, observing nature is something I've been doing my whole life. Now that I'm retired, I follow my second passion, bee-keeping. On the Spot-A-Bee app, I can talk to a community of young people with similar interests - minus the hard work of actual farming.

Joseph from Spot-A-Bee

The apps on SPOTTERON have inspired me to take up a new hobby during the lockdown! Now, going out into the forest by myself is more fun and feels less lonely, and like there is more purpose to it, as I learn so much about the nature surrounding us. 

Jane from Nature's Calendar

Exploring your world with Spotteron Apps in these current times is something, you can do safely. Not only is going out into the fresh air beneficial for your health, but it is also a chance to escape the current everyday routine of staying at home most of the time.

While spotting, you can easily keep your distance to others, and you can go out into the wild without being surrounded by other people on a close quarter. But you won't be alone! In the apps, you will find a community of people like you, with an adventurous spirit, who are interested in similar topics as you.

Please stay safe - always watch your steps and take care of others. Keep the physical distance and do not put yourself at risk. But also enjoy walking out into nature and discover new things with your SPOTTERON apps.

With your contributions to the apps, you not only help important projects by making observations, but you also share what you find out there with other like-minded people. Let's explore and discover your world together!

If you want to share your experiences with the current Covid-19 crisis, please check out his app:

With SPOTTERON, you can explore the world together with ohers and post your dicoveries in apps. Each app has a topic and you can login with you user account in all of them. Starting on is easy:

  Choose your app:

 Select a topic that interests you and download the app in the app store of your phone. Find all the apps here.

  Install the App on your Smartphone:

Follow your phone's instructions.

  Login and start spotting!

Create a user account and log in. You can use the same account across all the apps on the SPOTTERON platform.

Start on with SPOTTERON!

Our Outdoors is a citizen science project which aims to find out more about what you and others experience when you are in public spaces such as parks, beaches, canals, and town squares. It was developed by researchers in the Scottish Collaboration of Public Health Research and Practice (SCPHRP) at the University of Edinburgh in partnership with Sustrans, the MRC and citizens like yourself.

Improving environments with Citizen Science

By taking part in the research you will contribute will contribute to a national database, which will be used to rate and improve outdoor spaces across the country. he data can be used to create maps, reports and research for citizens, researchers and policy makers alike, to better understand how shared public spaces contribute to the health of communities and which need improving.

Cane toads are relentless invaders. They were transported to sugar cane growing regions of the world from South America early last century, including Australia, in the hope, they would eradicate beetles devastating sugar cane crops. The experiment failed spectacularly. Toads ignored beetles, and instead embarked on an epic global invasion. With this App, you can reduce their population to protect local flora and fauna.

Citizen Science helping to cope with an invasive species

The purpose of the Cane Toad Challenge app is to support citizen science, to inspire the public, media, scientists, authorities and decision-makers, to catalyse awareness and gather data, to inform the development and implementation of more effective cane toad control policies and practices.

With the Green Growth Forest app, everyone can contribute to keeping Suriname the greenest country on earth.
Suriname is a small country in South America, an impressive 93 per cent of it is covered in dense forests. One could say it‘s one of the greenest countries on the planet. It's forest contributes to the world’s climate change as one of two carbon negative countries globally, and it harbours the world’s fourth-largest amount of freshwater resources.

A Citizen Science App to keep Suriname green

To keep it that way, the Green Growth Suriname Foundation invites citizens to keep watch on the forests and the tree logging there, and contribute to complement existing national data on forest conservation.
Data gathered by citizens in the app can help scientists understand the drivers of tree logging and find solutions for it.

The connections between water and geological underground are diverse and often complicated. With the SIBRA App, you can generate reliable data on these topics and help to a better understanding of these connections. That way, you can contribute to developing models and scenarios that allow for assessing possible effects of extreme weather events, such as rapid snowmelt, flooding or drought.

Citizen Scienctist collecting hydrogeological data

With the SIBRA app, a measuring instrument is now available that complements not only existing measuring methods in the field of hydrogeology and engineering geology and enormously expands the data situation, but also allows interested citizens to actively deal with processes such as geological mass movements and hydrogeology.